St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-14
YOU MUST REGISTER,
To-Day Is as Good a Time to
Do 1t as Any Voter Will
Find.
Political Paragraphs About
Ali Parties and ALI Local
Matters.
The Fire Department Wires
Under Ground--Assoeiated
Charities Confer.
The Lyeeum Theater Finally
Opened--Johnson, the Mind
Reader, Again.

open Inc DOCKS LOT the r6glSIfdClOD OIL
voters. No man, or woman either, can
vote unless registered. The voters
name must appear upon the poll list
before he can cast his ballot on the 4th
| of November. This is imperative. Of
course. the judges must copy the old
poll lists, but that should not make
| the voter think that there is
no necessity for registering. 1t
| should be remembered that
a good many election districts have
| been added to the number in the city,
! that is, there are more election districts
now than there were two years ago.
Moreover. a great many changes have
| been made in the precinct boundaries,
some precincts have been cut down,
others have been made larger. This
will put many voters in a new pre-
| cinct There is no way by which the
voter can be perfectly sure that his
name appears on the poll list other
| than to register. Register early''
| should be the watchword of everyone.
| The registration books will be open to-
| day from 9 a. III. until p. m. One week
from to-day, Oct. p, they will be open
| between the same hours. Two weeks
! from to-day, Oct. IS. the last day on
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| be open from noon until 9 in the even
ing.
Last night the council chamber was
crowded. and City Attorney Russell,
| judging from the way he was repeat
eddy addressed, was the most popular
man in the room. The city attorney had
called the judges of election together to
| instruct them concerning the perpleX-
- <1E4 l,r A 1<4 10rx IL
| went over the whole law. article
| by article and section by section, but
only that part of his instructions re-
| lating 10 registration will be published
| herewith. Other points will be eX-
planned later.
If man lives now in the same pre-
| cinct where he voted two years ago, but
| lives in different house. that is, in
| different part of the precinct, he must,
| nevertheless, register before voting. In
| other words, is man has changed his
l residence he must register before vot-
| ing.
If the voter now lives in different
| precinct from the one in which he voted
| two years ago, he must not only regis
| ter, but must present to the judges of
his precinct a certificate of removal. a
document signed by the judges of cleo
| ton in his former precinct, and setting
forth that he is no longer voter in that
precinct. This is to prevent the posi-
bility of his being registered in more
| than one precinct.
No man can ..swear inn his vote on
| election day. He must register. This
| is imperative. Swearing in" does not
''go''
There is just one exception to the
| above. If man now lives in the same
precinct where he voted two years, and
| the judges in copying the old poll lists
| have inadvertently missed his name,
he can vote after proving that his name
was on the old list and was skipped.
| Women, who are allowed to vote for
members of the school board, must reg
lister, the same as men. and all the rules
| governing the registration of men apply
likewise TO them.
The above are the strictly
new features of the Australian
| law as regards registration.
PerplexIng they certainly are.
| The only way to avoid their perpleXi-
ties and to be absolutely certain no mis-
takes shall arise, is for every voter.
whether he registered two years ago or
not, or whether he has registered every
year for ten years, to register this
time and be certain.
~
That measure bears upon its face the
unniistakable evidence of legislation for
the wealthy corporations.
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So Tom Downs, the distinguished
representative OF the Fifth ward, is
going to run as an Independent eaDdi-
date. Tom is a firm believer in that
ancient, but meaningless adage. 1.-The
more the merrier.' He wants to en-
liven the politics of the Democratic
Fifth ward by swelling the list of CAN
didates. Then, too. so many Of the
other wards have independent candi-
dates that feeling of pride induces
Tom TO push himself out into
the foaming maelstrom of the
campaign. Downs will find a
good many people to sympathize
with him in this, his mad rush for fame
and vindieation. To be sure it was
rather calling to Toms pride to be
thrust aside by a One-term upstart like
BraZie-the noble Tom, who had come
to regard a seat in the council as his
| special property. Downs has for so
long time sat with his feet on his desk
smiling benlgnly upon his poor, newly
| fledged brother aldermen, half in scorn
and halfin contempt, for their ignorance
of council chamber methods. that the
shock of being thus summary left out
in the cold must be to his system as the
slipper to the trousers of the
small boy who has sorely tried
the patience of his mother. Tom has
done as he pleased so long that he
doesn't realize that his constituents de-
mand something. Go in with your coat
off, Tom, old boy. None but the brave
deserve the FIRE, (aldermanic perquis-
ties from the street railway company,
and Thomas is undoubtedly brave In
thus defying the people who have
shouted down in front"
Some enthusiastic candidates. appre-
ciating the perpleXities of the kangaroo
law. have been getting out campaign
cards something after this style:
II. E. WANSIT. u
''Put cross after his name on your ballot. -
The heads of the tickets are object
ing, and with good reason. Some per
sons might put a cross after one name
that of friend, and leave the balan &c
of the ballot unmarked. supposing that
by marking one name, they were voting
straight" But such vote would be
counted only for the man whose name
was marked, and the other candidates
would be sacrificed. If you vote a
straight ticket, mark the head OF it and
| no more. If you want to vote ''Split, -
; mark the name of every man for whom
J | you want to vote.
The Republican candidates in the
| Thirtieth legislative district have been
| circulating false rumors TO the effec1
that the Scandinavian voters of the
Ninth ward would knife r. l.. Penny
; and vote for Robert Jameson. This il
, utterly untrue. and Mr.. Nelson, who i:
| candidate on the Democratic ticket
says that the Scandinavians will all vote
for Mr.. Penny, as they know that he i:
! n friend to the laboring man, and viii
fight to secure just legislation if elected
The Republicans can make no better
move than to indorse the candidacy o.
both Penny and Nelson.
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, Some time ago, long before the ''polit
2 ical pot commenced TO boil" City Comp