Evening journal., 1900-05-14
MUDDLE CLEAR.
ASSERTS DAILY
Says the KentOn Mix-up is
Strengthened Out
CITES THE CONSTITUTION
Declares That Acts ,ire l'ncOnStiiH-
tiOnaI and Voters Will Have
No Trouble

What was apparently a complicated
muddle. which promised no end Of trou-
bic at the election in Kent county this
year, has been, the Democrats assert,
entirely and satisfactorily cleared up
by Alexander NJ. Daily, Of Dover, who
is secretary of the Kent county Demo-
cratic Committee.
AT the last session OF the Legislature
an act was passed dividing Kenton
hundred. which is the third representa-
tive district OF Kent county into two
election districts. The Northeast one.
in which the town OF Clayton is situ-
ated, was No. !, and the southwest one
IN which the town Of Kenton is sltu-
ated, was No. ?. This act was ap-
proved by the governor on March 3,
1899.
On March l6 OF the same year. IN the
hurry OF the latter part OF the session,
two acts were PASSED attempting to
designate the voting places in the two
henton hundred districts. but by lack
OF knowledge on the part Of the per-
son who drafted the bill. the voting
place of the First election district,
which was intended to be located In
Clayton, was put in district No. 2. In
the town of Kenton, and the other act
located the voting place for the Sec
ond election district I'm the town OF
Clayton, when II should have been To-
Gated In the town OF Kenton.
DEMOCRATS WERE TROUBLED.
The Democrats have been much trou-
bled about the situation because they
claim that Kenton Is a Democratic
! hundred and any mistake which might
be made would possibly AFFECT the re-
suit not only in the representative dis
/ trict, but also as to all the county Of
fees, and it came to be an important
n question with them as to just how the
muddle should be Strengthened out.
1 Mr.. DAILY has carefully examined the
matter, and says that there is really
no difficulty In view OF the provisions
IN the new Constitution. The trouble.
ne says, is avoided in this way:
The new Constitution, article 8, sec
tlon 2, provides that legally qualified
voters must vote in the election dis
trict in which they reside for thirty
! days prior to the election and IN as
. much as the acts fixing the voting
) places for Kenton hundred undertook to
place such voting places out.
E DAILY has decided that they are uncOn.
E stitudonal for that reason, as well a:
for the reason that the Constitution. ar
e. ticle ?, section 16. also provides thai
: no bill shall embrace more than ono
: subject, which shall be expressed in It's
5 title" He contends that the acts which
undertook to fix the voting places IN
J the districts We're entitled as follows:
: That which undertook to fix the voting
] place in election district No. was en-
{ titled "An act designating the voting
place in the First election district Of
/ representative district No. of keni
3 county" therefore. as the body Of ths
: act did not in reality fix any voting
e place in that election district but In
d another district, the title, he says, wal
y false and misleading, and did not ex
e press the subject of the act, as the
e Constitution requires. The act which
e undertook to fix the voting place in
r the Second election district was equally
n faulty, according to this view, and
n therefore is unconstitutional for thl
e same two reasons, If Mr.. DAILY is right
e There is no difficulty about the who'll
Il matter If these two acts are uncOnsti
n tutiOnal. he says, either in having thI
IS voters registered or in holding an elec
tion, for chapter 36, of volume 21. Della
wares Laws, provides that the register
!, shall designate convenient places II
I, their respective districts, where the.
+ will sit to register voters, and chapte
- }S. page 109 provides that where IL 4
d impracticable to hold an election at
e place designated an inspector may Civ
" proper notice of the place where al
+ election is to be held, and IL can b
legally held there.
In addition to this the act last refer
red to fixed the town of Kenton as tn
- place where the election shall be hel
= for one OF the districts, and all that
y necessary to do, he says, is for the In
spector in the First district to civ
notice where the election will be hel
Is in the town of Clayton, and the Who'll
matter, Mr.. DAILY is confident, wi
D. work with entire satisfaction to tn
y, people OF Kenton and without any friC
s. tion.
t, The Democratic committee in Ker
county tried to make an arrangement
TO it is said, with the Addicks men {
D. Kent county by which an agreemeI
r. should be made with them that theI
should be no difficulty before turnin
D.. it over to their attorney for settlemen
- but the Addicks people. thinking the
IL might obtain some benefit from q chs
b., otic condition of affairs in Kent couI
u ~. positively refused to make an agre'
~ ment.