Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-19
END Of PRIMARIES
SOUGHT IN VIRGINIA
Opposition to the System
GroWing-Many Women
of State Register.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Ul9p&ten TO Ine sur.
RICHMOND, Va. September 49,
Democrats Of the state are to have a
convention in April next to reorgan-
ize the state committee and to make
arrangements to give women Of the
state full recognition on that body
mittee. That was the scope Of the
resolution adopted when the state
committee met here several days ago.
but once the democrats of the state
assemble in convention they are SOW
ereign and can do what may seem
wise to the delegates. In this move
ment there is believed to be an at
tempt to sound the death kneel Of the
primary plan-the creature Of the
state convention and the only body
that can set 1t aside. Opposition has
been and is growing to the retention
of the plan. and the more that is seen
of the workings Of that system for
making nominations the more criti-
cism there is of it.
This primary craze has more than
run it's course" said one of the lead
ing democrats of the state. 1.-THE
campaign for the governorship should
not open until next year and we have
the spectacle of that beginning two
years before the successful man can
take office. The Office, under the pri-
mary system. is up to the highest bid
der-the man who can afford to con-
duct a campaign for two years. There
was never anything Of the sort in the
old convention days to compare with
this system, which shuts out a man of
limited means. The time has come to
preserve the party and to sidetract
the primary"
Plans Of Colored Republicans.
The oolored republicans of Virginia
are standing loyal to their political
been pushed aside by the white lead
ers will cause no resentment against
the national organization. and they
are to stand up for Harding and
Coolidge in the November election.
This was the decision at a meeting of
voters. But the committee will not
stand for the lily-white organization,
and though the colored voters will
not have a candidate for Congress in
each district. they will put the knife
into the nominee of the fily-white
section of the party.
Women Registering Heavily.
Women in Virginia are exercising
all the fondness for politics that has
since the days when politics first
engaged attention. They are going
up and having themselves assessed
and then paying up and registering.
The unusual thing Is to see so many
of the more intelligent women going
to the officers and qualifying them
selves to vote this year. For the
last six days the women have been
qualifying at the rate of ESQ a day,
and at this time there are approximately
$500 on the books, with ten days
remaining for them to get their
ceHies registered. The women of
Virginia will cast as many votes as
the men this fall, the politicians be-
lieve.
In parts of the state there are
officers who are opposed to women
having the vote. and whatever OBJ
stacle can be placed in their pata
is being so placed. One registrar re-
signed rather than to register the
name Of woman on his books. In
Griffith precinct. Stafford county, the
registrar died a long time ago, and
no successor has been named. The
Equal Suffrage League has taken up
the matter and letter has been