Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-15
women SAY $4,000
VISITED CITY POLLS
Republican Alliance Leaders
Claim Only 80, 900 on Second
Registration Day
MANY WERE NOT ASSESSED

Women leaders today began setting
plans for the final registration day on
October 2.
Meanwhile the registration commits.
sion is making an ardent effort to COM
pile figures on yesterdays turn out at
the 1885 polling places throughout the
city.
Widely varying guesses were made
today on the number Of women who
registered yesterday. Republican Al.
lance leaders predict that not more
than 5000 men and women will be
found to have qualified 70 vote. They
base their figures on reports from d.
vision workers who kept a check on the
registrants at the polling places. OF
tn" total they estimate only 10000 were
women.
More confident estimates were made
at the headquarters Of the women's $ or
CARNATIONS. They believe the first reg
istration day figures when 40, 900 wom-
en- registered were bettered considerably
Yesterday and that between 1000 and
10000 qualified to vote.
The registration commission hns an
nounced officially that the first days
registration total was 11S.O5S. of whom
approximately 10000 were men.
The commissioners are receiving re-
turn cards from the registrars today.
but the job of compiling these figures
is big one and +. Lawrence Fell,
chairman of the board. says the total
may not be ready until next week.
System Criticized
Women gradually are getting on to-
man made election machinery and by
October 2 they will be prepared to do
much better than they did yesterday
and on September 2, leaders declare.
Criticism of the assessment system
continues. The newest development in
this phase of wOman's voting problems
is the discovery that les sthnn eighty
fiv" of 300 young women of voting age
living in the Y. W. c. A. were placed
on the assessors list.
Some one In the woman's hotel at
Eighteenth and Arch streets was seen
by the assessor and asked to turn over
the names OF the women residents over
twenty one years of age. The names OF
2lj wcrC overlooked and many Of them
were refused the right to register yes
terday.
Expects Only One Vote
An eighty three year old woman
was among the hundreds Of women
who went to the Republican city COM
mittee headquarters at Eleventh and
Chestnut streets today to sign their
petitions TO have the courts put them
on the assessors lists.
She was Mrs. Mary Jane Andrews,
of 21S South Twentieth street. She
was conducted to the city committee
rooms by her daughter, who filled out
the necessary petition for her.
II am so old" said Mrs. Andrews,
that / expect to vote only once, but
| do not wish to lose what may be my
only chance to cast my ballot"
Leopold Glass, counsel for the COM
mittee, said that although dilatory as
SCISSORS were responsible for many
women being left off the lists. in a large
proportion of cases the trouble was due
to the unprcparedness Of the women
themselves. He said he expected to
receive petitions until midnight tonight,
and might even continue to work to-
morrow.
Mr.. Glass said he was not preparing
petitions for American born women
married to alien husbands. because he
does not believe that these women
legally are entitled to vote.
He estimated that upward of 1000
petitions will be presented to Judge
Shoemaker in Common Pleas Court No.
l Friday morning. which is the date
the judge has appointed 70 hear the
women ; requests.
Never in history said Nr. Glass,
''have there been so many petitioners
TO have their names added to the lists. y