The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-14
MAY REACH $4,000.
EVIDENCE THAT THE MINNEAPO-
LIS REGISTRATION WILL BEAT
ALL RECORDS.
YESTERDAYS FIGURES 1900.
THE OTHER TWO DAYS MAY SEND
THE TOTALS TO ABOUT
$4,000.
COUNTY OFFICIAL BALLOT.
YESTERDAYS FIGURES 1900.
COUNTY
OFFICIAL BALLOT.
Auditor Cooley Now Has a Complete
List of Those Running for
County Offices.

Yesterdays registration was prob
ably in the neighborhood of 1900. Two
more such days and Minneapolis will
have a total registration of nearly 3d.
! 600. and this is about what is ex-
pected. Yesterday was the first day of
registration. and it looked at first as
ii the registration would be light, but
| after supper the returns commenced
to come in. BY s o'clock it was easy
to see that the registration was heavy,
but there was still thousands of people
who failed to get their names on the
] list. The G o b received returns
from Al representative districts and the
! average registration in each district
was 1875. There are 1876 election districts
! in the city and this would mean a regis
| tration for the day of over $4,000. 1t is
believed that this figure is little too
/ liberal and 1900 will probably be
about right
The Republicans claim to have Sc
cured a little the best of the registra-
ton yesterday, though it is hard to
size the situation UP accurately. In
the Eighth ward the judges were
claiming that they had half the names
enrolled, but an investigation of their
| figures shows that they have between
one-third and one-half of the names
| in. In some districts considerably
more than half the voters registered,
that is, reckoning the same number of
votes this year as two years ago, which
! is not a large enough estimate. The
! Tenth district of the Fifth ward prob
! ably carried off the banner for a heavy
registration. The judges there report
256 names on the rolls, and it is not
believed that any district had a greater
number. The vote in this district two
years ago was little over 400. Other
districts are over half in, but do not
contain so many voters.
| In the First, Third and Sixth wards
the judges report that the registration
and in some cases more
! than one-third of the total
registration two years ago. These re-
ports. together with the returns gather
! ed by the G O b e, indicate that from
one-third to one-half of the total vote
of the city is already registered. The
Republican districts seemed to be do
! ing the best work yesterday.
! 1t will be remembered that the land
slides for the Republicans at the last
election was something tremendous,
and the Democrats all charged it up to
failure to register on the part of the
/ Democrats. The Republicans all regis
tered, they said, but the Democrats did
not, and they pointed to the Sixth ward
! in particular as an awful example of
the way the registration fell off in
| Democratic wards.
Anyone who visited the registration
| places last evening between the hours
| of and 8 o'clock could easily see that
i an unusual interest was being taken
| in the election. In most places men
| had to stand in line and wait their turn
| to be sworn. and they improved the
| opportunity to talk politics. Then
| there was an unusually large number
| of loungers who dropped in with the
! idea that perhaps they might find some
one who was willing to talk politics.
| At one place in the Second ward, the
G o b e found about fifty men gath
| cred. The registration was fairly
| booming in this ward and the judges
all said that they thought it would be
ahead of two years ago.
Things seemed to be very quiet in
the First ward, but the claim was made
that over one-third of the votes were
in. At the same time the two districts
| of this ward which are more nearly
Republican than any Of the others,
| seemed to be securing more names in
proportion to the number of voters.
| The labor districts Of the Third ward
| seemed to be doing as well as any.
| The Ninth district, for instance, had
172 names, while at the first registra-
ton day two years ago but 58 were
| secured. The others all claimed to be
more than third in.
The Sixth district of the Eighth ward
registered 156 names and the Seventh
district It's, of which two were women
AS for the women, this ward probably
registered more of the fair Sex than
any other three wards of the city COM
| bined, and there were not enough
female voters in the Eighth ward to
| lead to any enthusiasm.