Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-26
THE SHERIFF In AHOLE
He Will Have to Hustle to Get His
Election Notices Posted.
THEY MUST BE UP 1ODAYs BEFORE.
The Official List of Polling Places Not
Compiled Yet.
MORSE SCHOOL DIRECTORS R,CKING

Sheriff McCleary expects to receive the
official list of candidates for the coming
election some time to-day. 1t was learned
indirectly yesterday that during the day
the Allegheny county list, exclusive OF the
Twenty-fourth Congressional district can
didates, would be mailed from Harrisburg
Under the Baker law the Sheriff is to re-
ceive this list ten days before election and
he must also post notices and advertise the
polling places by proclamation ten days
before election. If the list comes to-day he
will barely be able to get his notices printed
and distributed in time. If they should be
delayed longer it will be impossible to fully
comply with the law. The notices should
be posted by Thursday. According to the
law the official list should be in the hands
of the Commissioners ten days before the
election, but they have not heard anything
about il.
A question which is now agitating the
Commissioners is where the Sheriff will get
his list of polling places If every place is
not properly designated in his proclama-
tion, and contest should be made, each
election district not properly located by the
Sheriff will be thrown out This has been
done repeatedly in the past. The Baker
law makes no provision whatever for q
record of the polling places by which the
Sheriff can be guided. Section 10 provides
that the Commissioners must provide q
room in each district large enough to &C.
commodate all the paraphernalia required
by the Baker law.
Old Polling Places Too Small Now.
Most of the polling places used hereto
fore are too small for this, and many
changes will be required. The Commits
sioners have authority to erect temporary
buildings for the purpose, but as the struct-
ures cost 1925 each, they are endeavoring to
avoid that expense by changing the polls to
larger buildings where possible. In every
case where such a change is required and
the Commissioners find it out they have the
court petitioned to make an order for the
purpose. Forty such orders have been
made thus far. But it is considered certain
that proper arrangements will not
be made by the officers in many districts
until 1t is too late to get them into the
the court. Under the old law the Clerk of
Courts kept q record of polling places, but
no record is provided for in the Baker law.
The Commissioners we're yesterday served
with notice to appear in court to-day to
answer bill in equity filed by the direct
ors of the Morse sub-disIrict school of the
Twenty-fith ward, which asks for an in
junction to prevent the use of the school as
a polling place. The Court granted Z pre-
liminary injunction. j. s. and E. g. Fer
guson are the attorneys for the board.
School Directors Are Kicking Now.
The ground for the suit is that under the
Baker law it would be necessary to tear out
the school furniture to provide room for the
booths, guards, etc, and it would close the
schoolroom used for several days besides
annoying and interfering with the work Of
the whole school The board notified the
Commissioners they could not use the build
ing, but the notice was disregarded and the
materials for the election have been placed
in the building ready to set up. The board
claims the Commissioners have authority to
secure another place or to erect building
and that they must do it.
The board consists of Mesara C. Lode,
John McKaine, NJ. NJ. Felker, John Shook
and w. s. Jones. Last spring they ap-
piled in court for a decree requiring that
the polling place be removed from the
school, but Judge Ewing In rather caustic
way gave them to understand school
house was a proper place for polling
place and refused to make the decree. The
petition was ridiculed outside the court at
the time, and the board members were
chafed about it. The Commissioners have
nothing to say about the suit, maintaining
that judge Ewing was right before and
they expect to be upheld this time.