Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
Democrats HOPE
FOR CLEAN SWEEP
IN OLD DOMINION
Will Strive to Prevent the
Reelection of SIemp in
Ninth Virginia District.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

| last week of the campaign in Virginia
Will find many well known men on
the stump for the democrats The
| people of Virginia have finally awak-
| ened. and they are making up for
| lost time. There will be no change
in the politics of the Old Dominion.
in the belief of Chairman James and
the members of his executive com
mlttee. Much of the work of the
| campaign has devolved on Capt. Will
liam d. Cardwell and Secretary Jacob
n Brenaman, and they have kept
things moving in good shape for the
past week, and for next week they
have arranged for at least twenty
men to take the stump. Much of the
campaign has been in the ninth dis
trict. where the democrats are seek
ing to wreSt the congressional seat
from c. Bascom Slemp and give it to
| Lieut.. Boiling H. Handy. Mr.. Slemp
| has been in the district and has been
| making speeches to the people. but
the reports are that Lieut.. Handy
| had the start on him and has been
losing no time.
The republicans are claiming that
they will capture two or three seats
IN Congress and they have been max
ing fight to that end. The fifth.
sixth and seventh appear to be their
best bets in that line, but the demo-
SidtS are not conceding tnat tneE Will
lose a solitary man, and they are
bending their energies to sweep the
state by defeating Mr. Slemp. In the
three districts referred to-fifth,
sixth and seventh-there are republi-
can aspirants in a straight fight
generally good regulations, have big
followings and they have been for
the most part making aggressive
campaigns.
Democratic Women Mt Work.
For several weeks the trend of the !
woman vote in this city was prob |
lem for the party management but |
this has been relieved to such an ex- |
tent that no apprehension whatever |
is felt by the democrats. The women !
have organized a club of democratic |
women, and it has a membership that |
far exceeds any club heretofore exist |
ing when only men had the ballot !
This club was organized a week ago. |
and the applications for membership |
have been coming at the rate of hun |
dreds each day. The women are Off |
GERS of the club. they attend to all the |
aptitude for political methods.
In all sections of the state there |
have been schools for the women !
looking to marking the ballots in the |
coming election. The candidates are |
all on the same ticket, and the laws !
there is certain to be confusion. even i,
with the careful and complete in,
struction that has been given them !
by the men who are trained in the
work.
There is a good deal of speculation
as to how many women in the state
will lose their votes by reason of the
registrars failure in many sections to |
make complete lists of the new voters
because of the immense number that |
irp in
is done from a list showing who has
paid capitation taxes. For old voters |
the payments have to be made SIX
months before election, but the new |
voters can pay thirty days before the
election. All the women come under
the classification of new voters If |
there is no list of the voters the call
ers will not be able to cast ballot.
Here in Richmond several volunteers
have been at work for many days aid
perfected. |
Good Roads, Better Schools.
Roads and schools are to come up |
for the consideration of the voters at !
the election next month. The PROPOSE |
ton affecting the first of these is for
empowering the Legislature to issue !
bonds for establ Shing permanent |;
a good deal of opposition to this on |
the score that it means great in |
crease in taxation in addition to the |
increase that follows the reaSSesS- |!
ment of lands. which is operative |
next year and the new tax would be |
laid on this increased valuation. Many |
of the leaders in the manufacturing ;
business, the improvement associa- !
tons. the chambers of commerce and !
all sorts of organizations are making /
efforts to have favorable action on !
the amendments, but there are many |
persons who are opposed to the tax. |
In the matter of schools the idea |
is to have the counties and cities in |
crease their local levies for local |!
school purposes. There are several |
counties that have poor schools. pay |
ing poor salaries for short terms and |
these are the counties which have the |
lowest valuation of property and the (
lowest rate for the support of the !
schools. The amendment on this line |
would allow the counties and cities !,
TO raise their taxation for school pur- |
poses to a rate sufficient to give cred !
table schools. reasonable pay for
teachers and to increase the length
of the term. These latter amend
ments are in high favor
Women of the city set out to raise
funds for the democratic party and
they worked with spirit all day. the
result being that they piled up several
thousand dollars in cash for the bene-
| fit of the party in the city, the state
and for the national committee. The
money as received was placed in a
local bank in order that the people
of the city might see the collection.
The contributions ran from pennies
to twenty-dollar bills :.
HORACE y. HAWKINS.