Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-29

Prepared to Deal With Can.
didates Who Have Been
UnfriendIy to Cause.
Special Dispatch to The Star


RICHMOND, Va, August 2s.-Vir-
ginia is much concerned regarding the
newly enfranchised voters. Candidates
| for the governorship are standing and
| waiting to see what is going to happen
They are conjecturing as to how many
are gong to vote and, what is more.
how they are going to vote
The women have kept the records OF
the Virginia legislators-state and ma
tional
One of the candidates, Harry ST.
George Tucker. soon after the matter
came up In the legislature, made a
speech IN which he proclaimed himself
against giving the ballot to the women
and declaring for back to the Consti-
tution.' In that address he scored Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait and the militan,
suffragists. They are known to be
against him in solid phalanx at this
busily engaged in diagnosing the senti-
1nent among the women for participa-
ton in politics.
On the other hand. Senator G. Walter
Mapp of Accomac, who made the fight
for the women, is the storm center lust
now. They are demanding that he shall
make the race, that he stands for all
they have wished in getting the ballot;
that he is and has been the friend of the
schools, of the moral legislation, of the
good roads movement and is one of the
leaders of the prohibition movement.
Letters are going to him by the hun
dreds every day, and he is anxious to
make the race, bat he is biding his time
before making an announcement.
Then there is Representative Henry
d. Flood of the tenth district. Mr.. Flood
stood with the party in the matter of
rejecting the sentiments of the people
on the prohibition question--when the
people said they wanted liquor driven
from the state he accepted that and got
in line, accepting the decree of the peo-
never supported suffrage for the women.
They say that he has consistently voted
in Congress against giving them this de-
sired recognition.
For more than four weeks the expec-
tation has been that announcements
from Representative Flood and Senator
Mapp would be made regarding their in
tentioHs, and the prediction has been
freely made that both would not make
the race. At this time the indications
are that they will both get in and abide
the result.
Probable Number of Woman Voters.
Women to the number of $4,000 are
members of the league which has
been seeking the ballot. They are
mostly in the cities, where the organ
iZations have been perfected. The
women say that while there are &c.
900 members in the state they have a
list of as many others who have an
nounced that they would vote if given
the privilege, but that they would not
do anything to get the ballot. The
women are of opinion that they will
cast as many ballots as the men, and
they believe that the "aunties," as
their opponents are styled, will also
get into the game and seek to nullify
whatever the suffragists favor.
Opposition is still violent in many
parts of the state to allowing the
women to vote. For instance. one
back to the Constitution" advocate,
when told that Tennessee had ratlhed
the amendment, promptly resigned MS
position as registrar for his precinct
on the ground that he would not De
a party to any such gross violation
of the principle of states rights, ana
he resigned before he was called on
20 register any woman.
The following is the forecast OF the
women'S vote by an old-time hanu
at the game: Suffragists who VIII
vote because of interest in pubic az
fairs, 10000; school teachers, lO,ooO'
social workers, 1000; employees or 1ac-
tories, stores and the like, now re-
uuired to work ten hours day win
men who work only eight, l5,oUo'
those who are avowed enemies OF the
liquor traffic, $4,000. This makes
total of $1,000, and of this NUMBER
there is possibly Is per cent VINO are
embraced in more than one OF lne
classified tons above, or about l5'oVo
to be deducted from the 81 900.
HORACE "A. HAWKINS.