Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-20
CHicAGO'S REGISTRATION.
An immense Number OF New Names Pre-
sages Republican Avalanche.

y recent dispatch from Chicago says:
The slogan heard over all the town
today is: "A heavy registration indi-
Gates the right kind of an election =
Gov. John Pardon Altgeld has repeat
edly said that Illinois will hold the key
20 the presidential situation in Novetr-
Der. Altgeld in his heart can find not
a morsel of comfort in Chieago's first
day of registration.
Compared with the FIRST days regis
,ration in 1924, which was the largest
previous single days registration. yes
.erday's record shows u gain of A. ,i02
4 closer analysis shows that this re-
:narkable gain came most largely from
chose wards which in 1894 gave large
Republican pluralities: In the second
ward the gain was 1914; fourth. l207
tenth, 2S1s; twelfth, 1924: fourteenth.
.a43; fifteenth. 2i46: twenty fourth.
l202; twentyhfth. 25oS; twenty-sixth.
ZSGi; twenty seventh. 1883. twenty
eighth. ll32. thrtieth. 290i: thirty-first
-1S1; thirty-seeond. 1893; thirty third
ao65, and in the town of Cicero 1929.
In these sixteen Republican strong
holds the increase is over s.. 900, OF
about threequarters of the whole. And
there are other Republican wards il
which the increase is large. but just
fats under the four figures. The heavy
increase in the registration has led en-
;husiastic men to declare that every
sign points tc the possibility. if not the
probability, that Mckinley and Ho-
bart will carry Illinois by a plurality
h it,ev
Chicagoan you meet is head up and
hluffing for dear life about how Chi
cago's registration of 293, 1S2 legal vot-
crs yesterday beat the one day record
of this or any other American city Ii
also exceeded the two-day record OF
New York last Friday and Saturday of
210,6 which had never been exceeded
in that city.
All these figures have been gone over
again and again today.
1t should be borne in mind when dis
cussing these figures that Altgeld's
candidate for state treasurer was beat
en- in 1884 by 123.427 plurality. and that
he lost Chicago Cook county, by ST.
plurality. whereas Cleveland, in 1892
carried the state by 26, 1893 plurality and
ChiNdSo Wy oo,oou
Figures are apt to be dull reading
The foregoing figures have not been
dull reading today for Altgeld's follow
ers. They will not be dull reading to
the Republicans and the sound money
Democrats of the nation. They indi-
cate. more than anything else at hand
tnat Organism and Altgeldism are to
be wiped from off the face of the earth
on election day. Bryan and Altgeld are
bosom friends. Bryan regards no ones
counsel save Altgelds They have been
hitched together since 1894, and there
are not wanting witnesses who pro-
claim that they first Joined hands in
the free silver conspiracy in the sum
mer of 1893, when Bloody Brides"
Waite and his crew held preliminary
in a dilapidated old church
in this city. Subsequently, and while
this alleged convention was in session
Altgeld obtained for them better quar-
ters in the Music hall. 1t has been the
constant complaint Of Chairman Jones
of the Popocratic national committee
that Bryan and Altgeld have taken
things in their own hands, and to some
extent this explains the absence from
all prominence in the Popocratic cam
paign of Richard p. Bland and Sena-
tors Vest, Cockrell, Turpie, Daniel
Harris, and Bate. 1t is an undisputed
fact that these senators and others
have been and are inexpressibly dis
gusted because Senator Henry M. Tel