The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-09-24
Address from the State Central
Committee.

| To lie Democrats Of he Cortii.H:
Under the election law of 1896 EoW il
force, there was made last year an entire
" .ca registration OF voters throughout
the whole State. Fer the coming election
on November end, q totally new registra
ton is required to be made in Baltimore
| City alone, but in the counties the law de
clares that there shall be registration
merely of those who failed to register
last year or who have since become emit.
tied to register, and that there shall also
| be revision of the existing registration
| books
| Although the registration in the coun-
| ties last year was large, indeed somewhat
larger than was expected, the figures
show that many who We're entitled to reg
| lister omitted this important duty, and
consequently took no part in the election.
| earnestly call on all such Democrats
| to repair their neglect of last year and to
put themselves in 4 position to aid their
| party in recovering our temporarily lost
enilancy-they owe this duty to them
selves. their party and their State With
our whole vote registered and east there
ought not to be any doubt of oul success.
Only supineness and Indifference can de
feat US this year.
The first step in our campaign is to make
the registration OF orr voters full and
complete. To this end every man who
under the Constitution and law is quail
fed to vote should consider it 4 point Of
personal obligation and honor to have his
name duly registered without delay, and
should stimulate his neighbors and ac-
quaintanccs to let nothing interfere with
their performance of this necessary duty.
Our several county organizations are
earnestly requested to give this matter
consideration and careful attention. The
names of all persons who ought to be and
are not registered should be accordingly
ascertained and they should be urged to
go to the proper offices and be registered.
The work cannot be done too thoroughly,
too Systematically or too soon. Sub com
mittees in each precinct of each election
district should be appointed charged with
the responsibility of ascertaining the
names of all non-rcgistered persons who
are entitled to be registered in their res
pective precincts The sub committees
should report to full committees for each
election district and these should in turn
coyara1
from whom reports should be sent to the
State Central Committee. In this way
and in this way alone can the condition
of each election precinct be definitely and
accurately ascertained and adequate steps
be taken to bring out the fullest possible
registration of our voters.
There is reason to believe that the reg
istration books contain many names which
should be thoroughly and diligently scru-
tinted and the books completely purged
of all who are not really qualified voters.
For the purpose of additional registra
in the counties will be opened on Tues
day, the 2sth day of September inst, and
Tuesday the 9TH day of October proN.,
from s A. NJ. until P. NJ. For the pur
pose of revision only they will be opened
on Tuesday, October 18th prox., from s \.
NJ until p NJ At this sitting no new
names can be added. During these sit
tins ample time will be given to register
every qualified voter andto purge the reg
istration books of last year of every I'M
proper, erroneous, disqualified or fraudu
lent name.
Upon the complete performance of this
essential work our success depends.
While | feel assured that the democrats
Of the counties will do their duty in these
particulars, | cannot too earnestly impress
upon them the necessity of doing it most
thoroughly and promptly.
MURRAY NANDIyEE,
Chairman