The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-10
DEMOCRATS ARE HAPPY
Had Best of the Registration
of Yesterday.
REPUBLICANS NOT BUSY
BETWEEN 1000 AND 5000
VOTERS WERE OUT.

matter of registration. Yesterday was
the frs, day for the performance of
this duty, and it was decis ly a Demo-
cratic day, judging fro the reports
that could be obtai. ID last night.
Chairman Wilson and his associates on
the Democratic county committee were
feeling jubilant last night on the good
work accomplished throughout the city
by the wide-awlke Democratic hus-
tiers.
You can say for me- said Chairman
Wilson at headquarters last evening
that VIC are perfectly satisfied with
the first days registration. It dernon-
strates that the Democrats are ready
for business this year, and that our
organization is in perfect working or
der. Our Democratic men and women
worked nobly today, and if they do as
well tomorrow-and am positive that
they will-we will have the major por-
ton of our vote registered when the
lists are closed on Wednesday evening
So far as the first day is concerned
We have very much the best of it,
Many Voters Registered.
Chairman Wilson thought that the
total number registered in the city was
between 1000 and 5000, nearer the for
mer figure than the latter. He thought
the total registration would be about
$4,000. He had no figures from the
country districts, but had no fear at all
for that portion of his political field.
Every indication from the county out
side Of the city, he said, pointed to a
substantial Democratic majority for the
entire Democratic ticket.
At Republican headquarters they
professed to be just as confident as
were the Democrats, and both Chair
man EichnCr and Secretary Eldredge
were claiming the best of the first days
registration, although they would give
no figures
Eichnor Is Pleased.
II am well pleased with the result as
far as ft is known" said Chairman
Eichnor. 1.-THE Republican districts are
showing up heavy registration for the
first day, and that looks good to me.
Here is the Fiftieth district that has
200 registered; the Forty-ninth with
$50: the Fifty-first with 125 or more;
the Fifty-second with $50; the Twenty
first with 162, and SO on. These are
but samples, but they indicate to me
that the Republican vote is being reg
iStered. In the Fiftieth district the
Republican workers were claiming
Jhree-fourths of those registered. while
Jake Greenewald was claiming four to
one in his district, the Fifty-seco nd
This assumed confidence of Chairman
Eichnor must have been shaken when
the reports began to come in later in
the evening from some of the outlying
districts. For instance, the Seventh,
down in the First precinct, reported 222
registered and this was the banner dis
trict of the city so far as heard from
last evening. The Forty-third registered
It's, the Forty-second 140. the Fortieth
145, the Twenty-eighth 126, the Twenty
fourth lie, the Eighteenth 15S, the Thir-
tieth $50, the Twenty-seventh 162. Lake
Breeze seems to be the tail-ender for
the whole city; the number registered
there was but 40.
EIdredge Makes Figures.
At Republican headquarters it was
claimed that the number registered on
the first day was nearer 5000 than Z, 000
Jodfe Eldredge, who is an expert on
such matters, put the number at 1850.
Chairman Eichnor thought that the en-
tire vote OF ot the city this his year would be
between $4,000 and $4,000 He based his
calculations on the vote cast in the city
election last fall.
There seems to have been no trouble
at any of the registration offices aside
from differences that grew out of tech
nical points, and there were many of
these that came up. One Italian with
Mckinley button as big pie
plate was shut out because the name
that he signed to the oath was not the
same as the name on his naturalization
papers. But there was no trouble and
the unanimous report was that the
registrars had done their work well.
Many Were Ignorant.
Many people were found by the work
erS who did not understand that it was
and be registered this year if they
wished to vote. In spite Of all that has
been said on this subject there are
many who still think that the old regis
tratiOn goes this year. while there are
many others who think that the regis
trar can come to their homes and get
their names. Again it may be said that
every man and woman who intends to
vote this year must go to the office of
the registrar of his district and attend
himself to the duty of registering.
Nor VIII the registrar De permitted
TO move his office from one part of his
district to another for the accommo-
dalton of the voters. The count at
tOrney has decided that this cannC- be
done, and that where the office is List
located there it must remain on all the
days of registration. This is liable to
cause some confusion in the Lake
Breeze district. This is a very large
district, running from South Temple
to Twelfth South and from the Jordan
river four miles west.
Aveson Mustn't Change.
Because of the extent OF the district
the registrar, r. T. Avesog1, announced
that he would have his office in the
north end OF the district part of the
time and in the south end the other
days. The voters were notified of this
by the Republican county committee
and in other ways, but now comes in
the decision of the county attorney and
knocks this in the head and comDels
ll6 IeElSlIdE 10 SUCK 10 MS OF
fee, which is III the north end of the
district.
Today the work of registration will
be on again and with renewed vigor.
Neither party proposes TO rest on it's
oars, but viii go at it harder than ever
today. The Democrats are certain that
they had the best Of it by far on the
first day, nd this thought viii nerve
them TO still greater efforts today in
order to increase their lead. They
think. too. that the foxy Dennis is try
ing to lUlI them TO sleep on the first
days and then with a tremendous ex-
penditure OF money rush in a large
number of voters on the last DAYS.
Another Chance Today.
If this is not the game. then the Re
publicans viii redOuble their efforts to-
day in an attempt to recover lost
ground. In any case this win be a
busy day among the politicians.
Neither side had out many carriages
yesterday, the Democrats had perhaps
the best of it in this respect, but their
opponents had many more paid work
eTs around the registration Offices. In
one district there were seven paid Re
publican workers. and they did not
accomplish much either. In one dis