The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-10-17
BEWARE! TAKE CARE!
Dangerous to Purchase Reg
istration Certificates.

You May Get Into Uncle SANS Court
And II you DO You Had Uetter
Prepare for Cool Retreat.
Last week the Herald called at
tention to the fact that it was a
violation of the federal laws to
buy registration certificates. Not
ing what we had said the Chatta.
nooga Times observes
There is not likely to be any
purchasing of registration certif-
Gates for the November election,
and no disagreeing on registration
certificates that will Justify the
charge that is done to prevent a
voter from exercising his American
born privilege. 1t is generally
known that Judge d. M. Key,
United States district Judge, will
not be lenient to any one brought
in his court who can be convicted
of interfering with the exercise
OF the inalienable right of Ameri-
can citizenship. He is firm be-
lever in free ballot and a fair
count, and woe betide the man
who comes before him tainted
with any of the nefarious practices
that are said to have been in vogue
in other elections in this bailiwick.
The views of Judge Key are not
only entertained by United States
Supreme Judge Jackson, but the
way he dealt with the West Ten
nessee manipulators only short
time ago proves his faith by his
works. The United States stat
utes are very clear against pur-
chasing registration certificates.
The following is the law on the
subject
The Law.
BY section SSH of the revised
statutes of the United States, Sec
ond edition, prevents any qualified
voter any person, by force, threat,
intimidation, bribery, reward or
offer thereof, unlawfully prevents
any qualified voter of any state or
any territory, from freely exercis-
ing the right OF suffrage, or by any
such means induces any voter to
refuse to exercise such right, he
shall be punished by fine of not
more than $500 or by imprison-
ment not more than three years,
or by both, and shall pay cost of
prosecution.
By next section of same book it
is provided that if any person at
any registration of voters for an
election for representative, ETC.. by
force, threat, bribery, ETC., reward
or offer, prevents or binders any
person having lawful right to
register from duly exercising such
right he shall be punished as pre-
scribed in preceding section.
BY the next section (55I3) it is
provided that every registration
under the laws of any state or ter
ritory for all elections, shall be
deemed registration within the
meaning of the preceding section,
notwithstanding any such regis
tration is made for any state or
municipal election.
Judge Key Sounds a warning 10 Reg
istratioa Certificate Buyers.
Chattanooga Times of Tuesday:
The October term of United States
circuit court opened yesterday,
Judge d. M. Key presiding.
After the drawing of the traverse
jury Judge Key delivered his
charge, which is of considerable
length. He touched upon the vio-
latioa of the law in buying regis
tration certificates in the coming
election, the substance of which
was about as follows:
"The man who buys a registra-
ton certificate from any voter en-
titled to vote in the November
. election is guilty of bribery and
) punishable under the federal stat
7 utes. This is true because in that
r election members of congress are
S to be Voted for and the federal
statutes control and govern their
election"
Judge Key also said that any
e registration official who withheld
a from any man certificate of reg
! istration, who was lawfully entitled
n thereto, was liable to indictment
t and punishment under the federal
:, statute, for like reasons as given
G above.-Cleveland Herald.