St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-18
POLITICAL PICK-UPS.
Denunciation of the Registration
Law Continues in Loud Tones.

Law Continues in Loud Tones.
Do you realize that you should
register next Tuesday? 1t is time that
you begin to think about it. Every
voter should go to the polling place in
his district next Tuesday and see that
his name is OH the poll list. You can't
vote unless you register. Old registra-
tons don't Ego" That is one of the
early.
The more people one meets in the
course of day the more complaints he
will hear against the registration
clauses of the Australian law. The
clause which provides for the certificate
of removal is the one receiving the
most general condemnation. On every
hand is it meeting with denunciatiOn as
clumsy, misleading and entailing vast
waste of time. To illustrate: Sup,
pose there are 10000 voters
who have removed from their fOrmer
precincts within the last two years.
Not one of them can get certificate of
removal in less than one honr. counting,
the time spent in going from place to
place, and in waiting for judges of cleo
ton to appear lin most cases three
hours would be cOnSumed). that makes.
10000 hours given up to securing certifi-l
Gates of removal. Ten thousand hours.
are equal to 416 days, over year OF
time absolutely wasted over little for.
mality. No one will attempt to deny
that secret ballot is a deSderatum.,
Around the ballot box all possible safe
guards should be thrown 10 prevent re-
peating and fraud. Implications in
registration should be avoided and pre-
vented. But why are thousands of peO
pie, people who can i'll afford to lose
the time, put to amending trouble which
could be reduced to minimum. Three
judges of election preside in each dis
trict Oh election day. look after the poll
lists and the registration Oh the
proper days and see that the election
laws are followed. They arc paid for
doing this work. An additional duty,
one which they would not feel to any
considerable extent, might we'll be I'M
posed upon them. Why cannot the
judges meet and compare the poll lists
after the registration is over, or from
week to week while it is in progress?
In the city of Minneapolis there are 35l
judges of election. That number of
men, by following system could easily
compare the lists, make all needed cor
rections and prevent Implications. The
ballot boxes would be as well protected
then as now. And the great public
would be UNNECESSARILY benefited.
Many MinneapolitanS believe that the
Australian law, as now in force, is
susceptible to amendment.
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The voter should not make the mis-
take of thinking that by giving his name
to the party canvasser he is registering
his name for election day. These can
vassers are merely counting noses for
their respective parties. There is but
one way to register. The voter must go
to the polling place of his district and
and two clerks. At least the law says
SO. He will probably find there not
more than two judges and one clerk.
But that is the fault of the judges, not
of the voter. But you must register.
1t behooves the Democratic commit
tees to do little hustling, and spread
the news that sort of a road out of the
certificate of removal wilderness has
been found. Blanks may be furnished
to the judges in the various precincts,
and voter may give his name and
present address for registration and
then take oath as to his removal, stating
the ward and precinct in which he voted
be recorded on the blanks referred to
and certified to by the judges. Such
blanks may then be sent to the judges
of other precincts, who will. if the
names are found on their books, certify
to that fact and return the blanks.
When this is done the judges in the
first precinct may then enroll the citl-
ZenS as voters.
The citizens of the Twelfth ward have
instituted a fight against Aid. Adams
that promises to result much to the adj
vantage of Mr.. Peterson, the Demo
cratic candidate for alderman. Adams
has partly apologiZed to his constituents
council, i. e., defeating two important
measures that would have greatly bene-
fit the Twelfth ward. Adams has been:
urging his claims for reelection by
stating that he was one of the largest
property owners in the ward. but since
the taxpayers have become aware of the
fact that he only pays taxes on very
small amount of real estate, he has.
begun to realize that his constituents
are not easily infatuated.
The lesson which Matt Quay instilled
into the brain of Republication two
yCdi dEO juo iiOb UCcH lOI SoGlcli. Ii is,
on the contrary. bearing fruit Mat
thew's idea was to pour money into the
doubtful districts. The Republicans
are now doing that same. Over in the
Thirtieth legislative district the Repub-
licans are on the anxious seat. On that
account they are pouring the money in
there. Said a prominent Second ward
man yesterday:
ppm going to throw up business and
pretend to be doubtful Republican.
There's fortune in it. l can make
more that way in two weeks than l can
in year in business"
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If the Democrats OF the other wards
will make up and work as the Seventh
warders are there will be no doubt of