The Washington herald., 1922-06-19
VIRGINIA WOMEN
PREPARE TO QUIZ
ALL CANDIDATES
Four Questions Asked of
Seekers for Congress
sional Honors.
SWANSON is ACTIVE
Supporters Plan to Form
Ward Clubs Through
out State.
Four Questions Asked of
SWANSON is ACTIVE

RICHMOND. Va. June 1s.-The
members Of the Virginia League Of
Women Voters are preparing to qui,
candidates on a few
Items which happen to be interest
Ing TO the new voters, the questions
to be given. to the candidates, re-
sardless OF party affiIiation. hav-
ing come out of the recent Pan
American conference at Baltimore.
Just how the women who are loyal
to the league will vote will depend.
to some extent at least, on the way
the candidates answer these four
questions:
. ]. Are you in favor of having the
Unitsd States take the initiative In
international cooperation to pre-
vent war!
2. Are you in favor of Federai
legislation providing that an Amer
lean woman who marries an alien
may be permitted to retain her citi-
zenship SO long as she Is a resident
OF this country and that foreign
born women hereafter may not re-
quire citizenship by marriage to an
American citizen. but must 20
through the same process OF nat
uralization as a foreign born man
Interest In ChiIdren's Buresu.
3. Are you in favor Of adeuuat,
financial support for the ChiIdren's
Bureau. the won<n's Bureau OF the
Department of Labor. and home
demonstration work in the Depart
ment of Agriculture
4. Are you in favor of Fedora,
provision for reducing illiteracy
throughout I've United States
The reco -nmendation that State
Senator IN Paul. of Harrison
burg. be .iven the seat In Con-
gress. as tie result of his contest
on the election In 1920 of Judg.
Thomas W. Harrison, of winches-
ter. will be the one thing to solidify
the Democratic vote Of the seventh
district. and Democrats of the dis
trict are predicting that II Senator
Paul Is [. ndidate next November
his majority will be so large that
there will be little chance left for
another contest
Precinct Judges Careless.
The charges that precinct regu-
lartties prevailed in numerous pre-
cincts in the Seventh district in the
election two years ago this fall
may properly depict conditions that
have prevailed generally over the
state, Tor II is an open secrt that
election Judges are ofttimes care
less and frequently the commits
sioners are under the necessity of
summoning them to make correc-
tions in their returns.
This Is comparatively easy in the
cities, but in the counties an ad-
journed session of the election COM
missioners is no easy Job. so n is
not improbable that many technical
irregularities have been overlooked
by the commissioners in giving their
certificates of the vote. The Paul
Harrison contest. however, will
open the eyes of election officials
of the State and IL is safe to say
that steps will be taken all over
the State to prevent another such
basis for a contest
Swanson supporters in Richmond
have perfected a campaign club,
with John c. Goode as president,
and plans are under way for the
formation OF ward clubs to work
for the nomination of Senator
Swanson over former Governor Da-
Wis in the August primary.
Expect Slemp to Run Again.
Representative c. B. Slemp went
to the Bristol conference of the
Ninth district Republicans with a
full determination to retire from
Congress, but he came away with
a general understanding that he
would permit his nomination again
at the convention to be held in July.
While II Is not so announced from
the conference. II is believed that
Mr.. Slemp was prevailed upon TO
stay in Congress another term. at
least. for the G. o. p. organization
seems to be somewhat alarmed
over the chance OF the Democrats
electing the Congressman from that
district in November.
The Democrats have had their
candidate. George c. Peery. a Taze-
well attorney. in the field since
March. and II is probable that this
has resulted in more Democrats
paying their poll tax this year than
has been the case for a long time.
Under any circumstances the State
may look for a red-hot fght in
November in the Ninth district.