The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12
OVER 4,OOORECISTEREDNOW
1,124 Names Added 10 The List and a
Total Of 4,O76 Now on the Books.

A Light Registration in Most Of the
Precinots-A Big Rush of Afidavits
Which Causes Much Friction Among
the Registrars Charges Likely to be
Preferred Against Registrars Cooley
and Walsh as a Result-1he Eighth
Precinct Passes the 900 Mark.
There was a very decided falling of in
most Of the precincts from Saturdays
registration, some of the precincts show
ing less than half as many names regis
tered yesterday as on Saturday Only one
precinct exceeded Saturdays registration,
the Twentieth, where ffty-four names
were registered yesterday, as compared
with forty-five for Saturday The largest
registration of colored voters was in the
Thirteenth precinct. where thirty-three of
the sixty-four voters registered are col
ored. The next largest colored registra-
ton was in the Eighth precinct, where
thirty colored voters were registered. The
Eighth precinct has the largest number Of
registered voters to date, the total for
the three days being 1863. The registration
in the Fourth district also exceeds the 800
mark, the registration being S29. The reg
istration in these two districts will prob
ably reach 400 There are half
dozen other districts where the regis
tration will in all probability exceed the
800 mark As the law prescribes that no
district shall have more than 300 voters,
this viii be a point to be decided by the
electoral commission and the city coun-
Gil as to what is to be done about it,
The chief feature of interest in the reg
istration yesterday was the number of
arldaVlts presented. The Myers men
seemed to be working the affidavit bust
ness for all IL was worth, and several
magistrates and notary publics seemed to
have gone regularly into the business. of
issuing afiidavits. Several hundred of
these affidavits were presented yesterday.
chiefly by negroes. The Duncan REGISTRARS
refused the afidavits whenever it was
possible to do so, some of the registrars
refusing to accept aftidavits at all, ex-
cept when the parties were known to
them. They held that they had the right
to demand other evidence of the appli-
cant having paid his taxes than his affi-
davit to the fact, as they felt satisfied
that most of the afHdavits were false.
and that it was merely an effort to OBJ
tain Illegal registration
Registrar Tom Cooley excited the ire of
The Myers men in the First district by the
persistent manner in which he refused to
accept any affidavit or to register any
voter whose statement as to his age or
to the payment of taxes he was unwilling
to accept. A policeman mad to be called
to keep order in front of the store of
Fretwell & Nichols last night, where the
registration for the First precinct is be-
ing conducted. The Myers men will prob
ably endeavor to have Mr.. Cooley re-
moved on the ground that he refuses to
comply with the law
Mr.. Frierson, the Duncan registrar in
the Eighth precinct, viii probably ask the
removal of Mr. Walsh, the Myers regis
trar, on the ground of violation of the
law. Mr.. Frierson state last night that
Mr.. Walsh had entered several names
upon the book against his protest, and
after he had positively declined to regis
ter them, having gone so far as to get
up and leave the office. on account of
that provision of the law which saws
that no name shall be registered except
in the presence of both registrars. He
took notes of the names thus registered.
and will ask their removal from the
books.
Yesterdays registration added 112t
names to the registration list. This makes
total of 4,076 names to date. Saturdays
registration will put the list over 5000
of yesterdays registration 1856 We're whites
and 231 colored. The following is a sum
mary of the registration to date:
First day.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. PA
Second Observation-Disclosures. l SIS
Third ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1124
Of this number 500 are colored and
| SAT- white Yesterdays registration bv
precincts was as follows: