Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-09-24

We again earnestly call attention to the
Registration notice and urge every man
to examine the lists carefully between now
and the day appointed. See that you are
properly registered and that your neigh
Dor is also. Every year we lose q large
number of votes by carelessness in this re-
spect. Laboring men and others are apt
to overlook the time appointed, and some
are without conveyance to go TO the place
of registration. This should be seen to
in time, and those who have horses should
furnish those who have not. Surely in
such cause horse can be spared for one
day. 1t is the duty of every man TO vote
and he who does not is responsible for
misgovernment. But you cannot vote
unless you are properly registered and at
the proper time. Many votes arc lost
every year to US because of this neglect
and because people moving from one dis
trict to another do not have themselves
properly transferred. An impression pre-
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this matter whilst the Registrars are in
session can be remedied by application to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court or to one
of the Judges, or perhaps to the Judges
of Election. This is fatal error The
Clerk has no jurisdiction whatever in the
matter, and Judges Of Election are ex-
pressly prohibited from receiving any vote
that is not on the list made out by the
Registrars, unless ordered by Judge oil
the Circuit Court. This latter officer has
no right to act in any case except of an
appeal from the Registrar-and of course
there can be no appeal unless application
has been first and duly made to the regis
tration officer. The culpable carelessness
of voters about matter of so much i'm
portance is shameful-and our party
| friends might well take lesson in this
respect from the colored voters. Who
ever heard Of one of these failing to regis
ter and vote also2 Surely if they can take
the time and trouble necessary to attend
to this duty of citizenship, it is an ex-
ample to the white people which they
should be ashamed not to follow, At the
last election we counted up in this dis
trict alone some ten or twelve Democrats
who had failed to register and there were
as many more registered who did not vote
In fact in every instance where there was
failure, either to register or vote, it was
on our side, whilst the full strength Of the
other side, even to the last man, was poll
ed. From conversation with gentlemen
from other parts of the county we have
the same reports. And we have not the
slightest hesitation in saying that we be-
lieve if our full vote was registered and
then cast at the election we would carry
the county easily by a handsome majority.
This is our candid conviction and it is
based upon extensive observation and in
formation from all sections, which is,
owing to our position, more accessible to
us than to others. Hence it is that we so
earnestly urge upon our friends to be up
and doing. If we were in hopeless mi
nority in the county perhaps there would
be some slight excuse for our mastery in
activity But when we lave the means of
reaping the victory and fail to do so from
supineness, there is no excuse or justifca-
ton for it. 1t is simply a reproach and
disgrace to our manhood. Let us this
time make one big effort to have our full
vote registered-that is the point to aim
at now. And the way to do this is for
every man to constitute himself COM