St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-14
ARE YOU ON The LIST?
Registration Of Voters for the
Coming Election Opens
To-day.
Imperative That Every Citi-
zen Should See He Is
Registered.
Senseless Vail Respecting the
Oft-Repeated Charge of
Trading Candidates.
French Canadians Rip Into
the Editor of the Evening
Republican Organ.
Register TODAY.

Register to-day.
Remember that the boards Of regis
tration will be present at every polling
place in the city between the hours of
8 O'Clock this morning and z this even
ing.
Every voter can visit these officers at
his precinct. and, with the loss of not
more than five minutes time, make sure
of his right to vote at the coming cleo
ton. 1t is not enough that you were
registered last Spring-your name may
have been dropped from the lists in some
manner; and no good citizen can afford
to run any chance Of losing his vote
three weeks later, when visit to his
voting place will settle the matter once
for all, and insure him his vote on cleo
ton day.
To voters who have come to this city
since the last city election, and to those
who, though here, were not registered
last spring, it is only necessary to state
that they cannot vote unless they are
registered. Have you any friends in
this category? If you have, see that
they are registered to-day. DO not put
this important duty Off until later, for
if you do it is two to one that you will
forget all about it one and two weeks
hence, and thus be deprived of your
right to vote.
Have you moved since the May cleo
ton?
If you have you must be registered in
your new precinct. This is necessary
even if you have not changed wards. If
you were registered in the First pre-
cinct of the Sixth ward last spring and
now live in the Second precinct of the
same ward you must register in the
latter precinct or you cannot vote.
Finally, it is the duty of every voter
to walk around to his polling place and
see that his name is either on or else is
placed on the registry lists. Take no
chances on being deprived of your vote
by clerical error or the carelessness of
some official. 1t will require but a few
moments to-day to do this. and as the
polls will be open until o'clock in the
evening there will be abundant time for
this.
Register, and do it to-day.
Remember that to enable you to vote
You must be registered.
Register.
Have you registered? If not, do so
to-day.
The evening Republican organ
is, by its absurd and senseless misstate-
mentS and abuse of every man with
whom it disagrees, day by day making
the overwhelming defeat of the Repub-
lican county ticket more certain. Yes
terday added another to its columns of
fabrications. 1t actually seriously dis
cuSsed TRADING" under the Australian
law. To-day it should go on and tell
how this can be done. In the old days
candidates of opposite parties could
combine and trade off their brother can
dldates.
But how was this done?
BY the printing and distribution of
what are known as "split" tickets.
There were worked by the workers at
the polls who were always hired by the
two or three candidates who were in
the trade. In this way many Repub-
licanS and Democrats would be given
tickets headed as straight for one or the
other of the parties, but on them would
be found the name Of the opposition
candidate in the combine.
This was the system under which
Col. A. r. Kiefer, a leading light of the
Republican party of this county, de-
feated A. p. CrOonQuiSt for register of
deeds IN 1881. At that time Col. Kiefer,
it will be remembered, was candidate
for clerk of the district court on the Re-
publican ticket. Mr.. CroonQuist was
on the same ticket for register of deeds.
The colonel became very gay and set
out to trade Croonquist, and both OF
them were beaten. As long as the Re-
publican leaders of this county are so
notorious for their swaps the even
ing Republican organ had best keep
quiet.
But the passage of the Australian
election law did away with this, and it
is an absolute imDossibility for any can
didate on party ticket to trade off any
other candidate Oh the same ticket.
There is no doubt whatever that there
are number of men on the Republican
ticket who would be quite willing to
sacrifice everybody else if by it their
election could be assured, but these
men themselves realize that it is an
utter impossibility under the law. The
Democratic voters of this county can
rest assured that every candidate on the
county ticket is pulling straight" and
that the entire list will be elected. The
wall of the evening Republican organ
is a stop thief'' sort of yell only made
to hide up crookedness in the Re-
publican camp. Chairman Lowenstein
should pull down this organ or it will
pull him down.
Register to-day.