Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-09-26
Registration

The following suggestions in regard tc
the subject of Registration are taken from
the Baltimore County Herald of recen
date and are deserving of the serious atten
ton of our Registers.
1t is their duty to register all who com
ply with the provisions of the law, and who
have lived the proper time in the State
and county, and who have been naturaliz
ed, etc.; in other words, it's their duty to
register all who, under the Constitution O.
the United States, and the laws of this
State, are entitled to vote, and it is equal
ly their duty not to register those who fol
any reason recognized by law, are not en-
titled to vote, no matter if they do apply
for registration, and no matter how hard
they are soilIjaag to saoe0r and get others tt
sa00ar for them.
It is also the duty of the register care.
fully to revise the list of voters and to
strike from that list the names Of those
who haze died, or ao1ao haze remooed from The
election district. -
The duty ola register is therefore very
delicate one, and prudence, justice, care
and strict attention are necessary SO to per
form it, as on the one hand not to exclude
from registration those entitled to vote
and on the other not to permit persons to
register who are not entitled to vote, and
not permit names ofpersons who are dead
or who have removed from the election dis
trict, to remain upon the list of qualified
voters; for if this is not done many persons
may come to the polls who are unknown
to the judges, may represent they are per
sons whose names are on the list, and as il
may not be possible to disprove such as
sertions, the persons asking them may thus
fraudulently and illegally obtain vote.
| We k7o0D that there are now upon oul
list of registered voters, the names of per
sons not entitled to vote, and we doub
not that efforts will be made by persons tt
register who do not live in the county, anC
who have no right to vote here. Only las
autumn four colored men went to the reg
lister of a certain district in this county
took the requisite oath, etc. The register
entered their names upon the list of voters
and afterwards it turned out, upon inqui
ry, that the gentleman with whom or or
whose place they said they were living
had not a single colored man in his employ
ment or living on his place. This game
will doubtless be tried again this autumn
and attempts made to COLOMBO voters with
view to influence the election for county
officers and members of the Legislature
and it is only right and proper that means
should be tried to defeat those wicked anc
fraudulent attempts to pollute the purity
of the ballot-box, and to clothe with the
sanction of registering, men who have nc
right to vote.
We do not mean to imply that the whole
Radical party would encourage such at
tempts, or even to wink at them, or palli
ate them. We know such is not the case
but bad men are to be found in every par
ty, who will do anything to gain their ends
and our registers ought to be watchful ano
wary and careful not to permit such efforts
to succeed. Persons ought to aid the reg
listers in their efforts to discover and de
feat any such fraudulent attempts to regis
ter. and the law gives the registers power
to commit for perjury any who swear to
what is not true in their efforts to be reg