Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-05
BIG WOMAN'S VOTE
LIKELY IN virginia
Many Pay Taxes and Will Be
Found Ready on Elec-
ton Day.
Special DISPATCH to The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, September L.
Registration OF women for the exer-
else of suffrage this fall is well under
way in all directions. according to
reports coming to this city. Women
are going to the registrars and are
making applications in strict COM
pliance with the laws, and the ma
jority of them are handing in well
prepared papers. A vast majority OF
the colored women who have applied,
and there are perhaps a score of these.
are teachers in the schools or work.
ers among the social organizations
engaged in training the colored ele-
ment the laws of hygiene, moral liv-
ing. soberness and the duties they
owe to the state.
There is another element that is
coming strong: This is the anti
suffragists. They did. not want the
ballot and they made a valiant fight
against the right being extended to
the women. but when the time came
ready to vote. they accepted the
situation and they are. losing little
time in arranging to exercise the
right to cast ballot.
SunraEists Pay Taxes.
But the suffragists are not over
looking anything that complies with
the principle for which they made a
successful fight. They. too. are get
ting to the officers, they are paying
their taxes and they are putting their
names on the books in a fashion that
BODIES i'll for that class of men who
have been saying their place was in
the home. not at the ballot box. These
selves in large numbers In every
direction. and it is expected that q
concerted effort will be made to have
them get to the registrars in the
next few days and to see to it that
all the members are placed on the
books.
Richmond city has q suffrage or
ganization of $4,000 members. Mem
bers are not to wait until the last
moment, but they will be registered
and then await the opening of the
polls. The anti-suffragists are ex-
ting against every proposition that
the sufragists support. In this way
they will be factor in the election
OF governor next year, and it is
no secret that there is a systematic
movement ahead to have the antis go
to the polls and to register in large
numbers.
The great puzzle in Virginia at this
time Is what number OF the women
will go to the polls. Men who have
long been noted for political acumen
are much divided on their estimates.
The first figures announced that there
would not be 5000. while the highest
yet announced ia $4,000. Based on the
registration now under way and the
reports coming in there will be $4,000
vember.
In the Ninth District.
The unexpected has happened in the
ninth congressional district, the bal
lfwick Of Representative Slemp, the
lone republican from Virginia in the
national legislature. Several weeks
ago the consensus Of opinion was that
nation for Congress, and the pre-
liminary decision Of the district COM
mittee was to that end. The republic
cans have not been active in the last
decided to hold a convention Septem-
Der 8 to take up the matter Of making
q congressional nomination,
It seems that Lieut. Boiling H.
Handy. q young lawyer Of ability. .
popular, has been approached and
asked to make the race He 10 willing
to do SO. and II he gets into the same
he will make the mountain gorRes
ring. The ninth district il q hard one
TO organise and the work must neces-
sarily be done largely by the local
committees in each county.
Planning for Campaign.
State Chairman Rorer A. James of
the democratic state committee has
issued a call for a meeting here on
the night OF September IS. The meet
ing is to take up the work of the
campaign and to arrange speaking
dates. to select speakers and to at
tend the many details that are re-
CURED for a short. sharp and dilirent
effort to get the voters to come out.
Judge Martin Williams Of Giles
county. for q long time q member
OF the popular branch of the leris-
lature. candidate in the last Campaign
FOR the nomination of lieutenant gov
ernor and who retired before the date
for closing the entries. has made 1t
plain that he is expecting to again
enter the political arena and to meas
ure lances with the three candidates
who are seeking the nomination Of
lieutenant governor at this time;
Senator Junius E. West of SuffoIk.
former Senator c. Harding Walker OF
and Delegate Ken.
meth N Gilpin of Clarke.
HORACE A. HAWKINS.