The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-24
lilly WHITE COP.
MAKES Strong BID
!. IN OLD DOMINION.

kepubl'cans Name Candidates
for All State Offices in vir-.
ginia Election in November. Is
By LOUIS A. MCMAHON. -
RICHMOND. Va, July 23.---For the
first time in many years the Re-
publican party has entered a com
plete slate of candidates for all State
offices in Virginia and hope of sue
cess at the polls in November is run
ming high i'm G. o. p. circles in all
quarters of the Old Dominion.
Democrats frankly admit that The :
Republican ticket is a strong one.
In former years the Republican
party went through the form Of
nominating two or three candidates
for State offices. but no concerted
effort was made to elect them and
they were defeated with such regu.
larity that the G. o. p. ticket was
pooh poohed and ridiculed.
Republicans Strong.
| Today the situation Is entirely
changed and many thinking Demo-
Gratis concede that the Republican
ticket has more than good chance.
1t may not win all along the line.
but 1t is confidently expected tina.
several OF the more, important offices
! wiz I've captured.
The Republican nominees, who are
Ir,4-y %. making a most aggressive
nnd effective campaign, while the
! Democrats are preparing for their PR
ii's-iy ~ select nominees, are as fol.
| lows:
FOR GOyERNOR-Henry w. An.
dersOn, Of Richmond.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
state Senator John II. Hassinger. OF
FO,s ATTORNEY GENERAL =
Harry n. WOlcott, Of Norfolk.
FOR STATE TREASUREK-J. w.
Flanagan, Of RadfOrd.
FOR SECRETARY OF THE COM
CONGRATULATIONS Nj. Parsons,
OF Grayson County. -
FOR STATE CORPORATION COM
MISSIOSER-Giibert Twigg. Of Eau.
FOR C"HMIssIoNER OF AGRI.
CULTURE--Jacob s. Haldeman, Of
Shenandoah County.
FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION-Mrs Eliza
beth Lewis Otey, of Lynchburg.
Besides these candidates. the Re-
publican party has others entered in
| many State senatorial districts and
1 II Is freely predicted that the G.. o. r.
will have twice as many senators and
delegates in the next legislature as IL
had at the last session
Negro Totally Eliminated.
BY barring all negro delegates from
its recent convention in Norfolk.
adopting platform permanently
purging the party Of colored in
fluence, and unfurling the standard
OF lily-white party, the G. O. p. is
conceded. even by Democrats, to
have achieved a master stroke in
politics. The negro has been totally
eliminated from participation in Re-
publican party affairs from now on.
and the charge that THE Republican
rarty is. the negro party" can no
longer be made in Virginia.
The effect OF casting the nearo
overheard will undoubtedly be the at.
traction of thousands Of voters to the
Republican ranks who have hitherto
held aloof from it because il was
mixed party. IL the negroes go over
| TO the Democratic party, It will be
I that much better for the G.. o. p,
| Republicans assert
or equal importance with the purg-
| ing of the party Of colored influence il
| the decidedly successful set" the Re.
publicans are making for the feminine
vote. Women throughout Virginia are
Inning up by the thousand to battle
for the success of the Republican
| ticket The women have taken an oath
| or vengeance against the Democratic
| party, which has controlled the leeis-
! lature here for forty years or more
and denied women suffrage and other
measures sponsored by the feminine
/ element.
! A number of prominent Virginia
women attended the Republican con.
vention in Norfolk, and Immediately
after 1t adjourned scattered to all
parts of the State to organize clubs
among women to work for the election
of the c.. o. p. ticket.
Women's Votes May Decide.
Sagacious. veteran political observ-
ers say that IL the women throughout
| the State cast solid block of votes
| for the Republican nominees the
Democratic candidates will be de-
| feated.
! That the hope Of the G.. o. p. lead
ers have is not ill-founded is shown
by the constantly increasing Repuh-
! lican vote cast in Virginia. In 1916
| Hughes received 1888 votes as
| against 102,S24 for Wilson, while in
| 1920 Harding received 81 45S to ISL
SO for Cox. This showed a gain of.
81, 100 Republican votes in four
years. -.
Gubernatorial elections in Virginia
do not bring out more than $1,000
Democratic votes. In the last guber
J Material contest, only S9,565 Demo
| cratic votes were cast -
1t can readily be seen that il only
S9,565 Democrats vote in the general
election next November and the Re
publics rs hold their s7.45s cast for
Harding and accumulate about 1900
more votes from among the women
and others because of the lily white
ness Of the party, the c.. o. p. can
win.
Republican leaders are looking for
a vote OF more than 100, 900 and ex
| press doubt over the ability of the
| Democrats to muster that many at
the polls in November II is because
| Of these most encouraging statistics
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