The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-28
purging the Registration Lists.

IN make arrangements for the cam
paign. The Republicans have made
up their minds to make a yigorc us
fight Ia this State, and within the
next ten days the Republican head
quarters will be opened in the central
section of the city, and a force of
clerks employed. The committee
has already received from the Re
publican National Committee about
fifty thousand copies of campaign
documents to be distributed through
out the State. The disposition OF the
committee and Republicans general
ly is to expend very little money in
banners, large meetings, ETC., but in
more effective ways. During the
coming week formal application will
be made to Judge Bond for the APP
pointment of United States super
yisors of registration, and members
of the Republican party state that
care will be taken that the best
men are recommended for these
positions. 1t is proposed that the
registration this year shall not be a
farce. Lists of names of dead men
and nen-residents now adjoining so
many pages Of the registration will
be presented to the registers ofvoters,
together with a request that they be
omitted from the registration Isis.
At any other time such request
from committee of citizens would
be met with contempt. AT present,
however, the citizens making this
request count upon the support OF
Governor Hamilton. There are
thousands upon thousands of Demo.
Gratis in this city and State who would
like to see the books purged of the
names of men who have no existence,
but they want others TO take the mi
tiative. Governor Hamilton has
committed himself to fair registra-
ton. The registers of voters know
it and tremble.
Some months since, after the APP
p0intment of registers of voters, and
when, in a circle of acquaintance, the
discussion turned upon fair regis
tratien, and some person expressed
the opinion that it could not be had
under some of the men appointed.
Governor Hamilton, bringing down
his hand with great force on the table,
exclaimed "By the Continental,
sir, there shall be fair registration,
or the heads of those fellows shall
come off! Is it possible that the
names of men who have 20 business
on the lists are retained there by the
registers 4? Is it possible! Is it pos
sible! 1t is an outrage, sir; shame
and AN outrage, sir. We can have
nothing of that sort. We can't afford
it. sir. The people went stand it.
Away with such devices! 1t won't
do, sir. Well, well, WE'LL don't
propose to tolerate it for moment,
sir; not for a moment. Why, sir,
this thing can't last What will the
people think of us?" Many of the
present registers were confirmed
against the will of the Governor,
who sent them to the Senate at the
time fixed by law, adding a request
that no action be taken on them until
a new registration bill was passed.
The Senate heard the communication
and-confirmed the registers. Some
of them had served before, and the
Governor intended to hear charges
against them but it was found that,
after appointing them, the executive
could not hear charges for offences
committed under former administra.
tions.
The Republicans propose to make
thorough revision of the lists. 1t
will then be the duty of the registers
to hear evidence as to the right of the
names to remain on the books. If
the registers decline to take up the
matter, charges will be formally pre-.
sented to the Governor against the
recalcitrant registers.
The well known fact that the
"d0ctored' lists are used in the pri-
maries to defeatan opposition faction
makes tie work upon which the Re-
publican party will enter of great in
terest to the Democrats. A very great
number of the latter will support
the Republicans in this move. The
fraudulent registration lists have be-
come so notorious that the Demo-
cratic party in the last campaign was
compelled to insert a plank in the
platform promising new registra-
ton of voters. But this was a cam.
paign made only to be
broken after the election. At Bar
nuIn's the other evening Governor
Hamilton, in a private talk. gave
unmistakable evidence that he would
hereafter not bedeluded by campaign
promises. He knows better than
that now. But the Governor insists
that he is not politician, and there.
fore, if he was deceived. it was not
his fault.-BGttO. american, 23d.
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An Ohio republican of some prom
inence, says he called upon General
Garfield at Mentor, Ohio, during the
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