The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-19
CALL QUERY COLUMN.
Bow Registered Voters May in Fact
Not Be Citizens.
The Political Dark Horse-Eight O'clock Or
dinance - Vice Presidential Second
Observation-Disclosures Of Note.

NATURALIZATIoN-B. S. r., City. o.
In further answer to your question Of
last week foreigner coming to the United
States while under IS years Of age is, of
course not required to file or make any
declaration OF intention" and can make
bis final naturalization proofs at any time
after two years from the time he becomes
of age. But there is another question con-
necied with this that confuses many.
There are now on the great reg
listers of the different counties of this
State many registered voters who have
never been naturalZed. They have
previously declared intention" and be-
came voters in some State permit
ting IT,, and when they came here
they swore to their citizenship and wero
registered as voters. The United States in
disposing Of her public lands requires APP
plicants to prove their citizenship by record
evidence. and in this way land attorneys,
while acting for applicants, have had cases
where clients had been registered voters in
this State for years, and surprising them
selves full-hedged citizens, have found out
TO their cost and sorrow that they had pro-
ceeded no further In that direction than
declaring their intention" in some State,
where that was a sufficient voting qualifica-
tion, and so supposed themselves citizens,
aud swore to the fact for the purpose OF
registering here. ~ Again. the ne
turalization law says that mo person
shall be naturalized Except in the
case of minors above stated, and
of soldiers in actual serYice) within
less than two years after declaring their
intention to become a citizen. nor until
they have resided 10 the United States five
years" &c. if foreigner should come to
the United States when over Is years of
age and remain here any number OF years
without declaring his intention to become
a ri IN m ftup
years after making such declaration before
ne could be naturalzed. Naturalization is
regulated by the laws Of Congress; voting
by State laws.
DARK HoRsE"-C NJ. B., Nevada City.
Dark horse" is a political phrase, but it
is a wise man who can tell you when and
under what exact circums tances the express
sion, in its political significance, came first to
be used. The use Of such expressions Is
spontaneous. When the nominating eonven-
tions name an individual that was not
prominently considered as a candidate be-
fore the meeting of the convention, or dur
ing its earlier ballots, such q person is called
"a dark horse" The expression undoubt-
edly originated from the practice Of not over
honest horse jockeys, who not infrequently,
by colOring or painting some well-known
horse. were thus enabled to enter him in a
race under another name, and thus win the
race, out OF which, had he been known, he
would have been barred As they were gen.
orally coored dark, the term probably orgi-
mated thus. Presidents Hayes and Garfield
were dark horses" politically speaking,
and James K. Polk was the first chosen by
national convention.
CRANDALL CAsE-C. s., Los Angeles,
Cal. You are mistaken in the facts of the
case of Bryant b. Crandall. who was ar
rested recently in your part of the country
on the suppostion that he Is the man who
disappeared from Buffalo. n. Y, In April
1886, and gave out that ha had suicided In
order to swindle an insurance company.
The accounts in the public prints do not
speak of any wife save the first. No case
OF bigamy can therefore be supposed as in
your query.
MEDICAL SPEcIALIsTs-M. K. S., City.
No one has the right to call and give him
self out to be doctor of medicine who has
not diploma as such from some reputable
medical college and has had the same
passed upon by the State Board of Ex-