Evening star., 1921-05-02
CANDIDATES OPEN
!. FIGHT IN VIRGINIA
Many May Lose Chance to
| Vote in Primaries Because
! of Poll Tax.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, April 30.--Both
Senator Trinkle and Harry st. George
Tucker, seeking the gubernatorial
nomination, are at last out in the
open and appealing to the voters or
the state. There are few days IN
which they do not make speecheS.
Senator Trinkle is making two each
day, and on one or two occasions he
has made three addresses. Mr.. Tucker
is going full speed ahead and the
crowds attending the meetings are
generally large. There is good dea!
of enthusiasm being displayed IN az
directions. There is one thing that
Is puzzling, however. in the campaign.
The time for paying poll taxes eX-
pires within the next oeek and few
persons are coming up. This may De
due to the ruling of the attorney
general, who holds that the women
and they are the real element al
fected-can pay up to within thirty
days before the final closing of the
poll lists and then vote in the general
want to vote inthe primary. which is
the real contest. they must pay their
poll taxes and be registered on or
before that date, August ?.
Lead for Trinkle Claimed.
Col. Park P. Deans, one of the men
working with Senator Trlnkle, says
there is no question that Senator
Trinkle is far in the lead and he is
firm in his opinion that the Wytne-
willie man will win the nomination py
at least 10000. And the supporters OF
Mr.. Tucker are coming rlsht :oaGk ;s
want to vote in the primary. Whlch is
by a larger majority than is claimeo
for Senator Trinkle.
Mrs. B. B. Munford, one of the
leading women of the city: mem
ber of the school board for Rlch-
mond, foremost among the advocates
LOT admitting women to the Univer-
,sity of Virginia and to all the msn-
YER educational institutions, has open
ly declared in favor of Senator TIN
kle.
! heard form are supporting Judge Ed
mund Waddill. jr.. of this city tor
United states circuit court judge, to
succeed the late Judge j. c. Prltch.
ard, Of North Carolina Regardless
of political affiliations, delegations
from ali Of the cities of the state
have urged his appointment.
Many Teachers to Leave.
There will be many vacancies in
the schools of this city at the end
, Of the session. and among these Will
be the teachers on the stan or tne
high school and the junior hlgh
! schools. Ten per cent OF the .eaen-
ed that they will go to other schools.
| where the pay is better. In many
cases they are to leave the state.
! ONLY those teachers who have their
homes here are able to hold tnelI
( nositions. their expenses being about
! one-third of those who have to pay
| their board, room rent and incidental
! costs.
] From England comes a report that
! Lord" p. c. Blake is once again IN
and in Culepper county. where ne
lived for a long time and where ne
has a wife and several children.
, Blake is charged with pretending to
represent a New York paper, and
when that fact became known tne
paper promptly repudiated him. He
came to this city and for short time
ne was empoyed on the reportorial
etaff of one of the afternoon papers
in Richmond. He married a young
woman here without a divorce from
his first wife, and he was sent to an
asylum. He recovered, and after that
he was again in the courts. Blake
is writing here to get records re-
garding his conviction and the fact
that he was committed to an asylum
on the ground that he is unbalanced
It Is not know on what charge ne Is
held in England.
Labor Fight On.
For several months there has been
conflict between the union brick1ayers
of the city and the contractors over
wages. The contractors declared for
, reduced wages and an open shop.
They brought in non-union men. The
union men have gotten work else
where, and many OF them nave al
ready left the city.
The Virginia commission to pre-
: sent the duplicate of the Washington
| statue to the British government has
organized by making DR.. Henry
Louis Smith of Washington and Lee
University chairman. to represent the