Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-21
RICHMOND WOMEN
REGISTER AT RATE
| OF 578 IN ONE DAY
New Voters Break All Pre-
vious Records in Quail
flying for Ballot.
TOTAL POLLING STRENGTH
IS NOW NEAR 5000 MARK
Peparate Offices Are Established
to Care for White and
Colored.
MAGGIE WALKER PROTESTS
-hargcs Discrimination Between
Raccs-Joscph Pollard Denies
Such Is Case.
TOTAL POLLING STRENGTH
is NOW NEAR 5000 MARK
MAGGIE WALKER PROTESTS
.hargcs Discrimination Between
itaccs-Joscph Pollard Denies
Such Is Case.

Win 100 white women minrling
vain more than 100 coIored in the
oFfidors outside the rcgistration Of
iccs at tho City Hall in the frat
our OF registration yesterday, Sec
etary John l. Ingram, OF tho City
.!ectoral Board. and Chairman John
u Purcell. OF the City Democratic
committee. devised a plan for rear
angling the enrolment system. They
uccceded In bringing order out OF
naos when confusion was fast rising
nd the feminine throng growing
lamorous.
quiet was restored and throughou.
ne day. the most eventful OF the
registration period. the registration
roceeded In orderly fashion. the en-
oliment Of tho newly cnfranchiscd
oterB for the day rcachlng,the un-
'rectdented total OF SIS. Added TO
ne qualified feminine voting list al-
cahy on record this brought tho
'ehS,h OF The new voters TO asia
Facilities Arc Improved.
ihe Encouragement yesterday i'm
'oved the facilities for intclligen,ly
'and!ing the crowds OF women. The
erVices OF Director of Public Safety
william N. Myers were enlisted and
adequate facilities for policing the
;3owds :hus procured. After the nrst
iour Registrar Woodson shifted his
wn station to the basement OF the
zig building, opening his books In
nc coroncr's jury room. which had
icnn obtained from Director Myers.
tn
hc fourth story were retained, Dep
ny La Motto Blakely sitting In the
bf!ce from which Registrar Woodson
iad moved. and Two women deputies
Mrs. Carter w. Wormclcy and Mrs
frank L. Jobson. recciving in tho
ury room attached to tho Law and
Equity Court
Thereafter the coiorcd applicants
os registration were lined up in the
basement, where they received the
nlnis;rat!ons OF Mr.. Woodson, and
he whites were whirlcd 10 the fourth
'tory Of the building.
II was day crowded with inter-
est!ng scenes and incidents. News
p. The extraordinary rush Of women
voters TO the City Hall spread. and a
hronG OF curious spectators gath
bred. serving to he.ghten the contu-
! sion in the crowded basement. where
he line moved more slowly because
of the greater difficulty in properly
Examining the applicants. Among
fhe interested spectators during the
lay were Judge ID. C. Richardson, of
he Hastings Court: Clyde w. Saun-
kiers. Of the State Democratic Com
Init
| for the treasurership. besides half a
score of well-known politicians.
Requests Negro Assixtants.
Maggie i. Walker, president OF
! the st. Luke Savings Bank. ono OF
| The most prominent negro women in
Virginia. was conspicuous figure
along the dark line in the basement.
Early In tho day she attracted atten-
lion SY declaring partiality was being
showi the white women. Finally
she carried her complaint to Judge
Richardson. asking the Judge 10 ap-
noint negro assistants to Registrar
Woodson. Judge Richardson re-
3terred her TO the registrar. Instead,
she sought out the secretary of the
electoral board. who listened 10 her
complaint, then informed her that
k3ny the registrar had authority to
designate his assistants.
When Registrar Woodson was
closing the doors against the crowd
Il OF women, upstairs and down, at
o'clock in the afternoon, an hour
|)ater than the usual closing hour.
Maggie Walker protested vigorously.
IShc said 100 or moro were waiting
I in the basement to be registered.
This Is our closing time." replied
| the registrar. They can come to-
morrow or some other day. or they
can wait until October 2. when there
| will be thirty-onc registrars to en-
| roll them" Secretary Ingram had
previously given the same informa-
|tion regarding the general registra-
tion day, to which the registrar al
|luded. But Maggie Walker exhorted
1.-The colored women to "come again
tomorrow" and reiterated tho ten
|der Of her own services as a DEPUTY
Registrar. She insisted that colored
women should be employed as we'll
as whites.
Pollard Addresses Throns.
Ino tHTVhB oi COlored women was
then addressed by Joseph r. Pollard.
state and city chairman OF the
Lilly Black" wing of tho Republican
party. Pollard assured the women
that no attempt was being made to
deter them from registering. He
said: You have until October to
register. Mr. Woodson and his
deputies seem to be doing everything
possible to handle the crowd. There
is no real ground for complaint that
i can see."
Speaking to- Graham d. Hobson,
who spent an hour In the basement
watching the coIored women, Pol
lard said: we will bring at least
5000 eolored women here before Oo-
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