Evening journal., 1900-10-23
REGISTRATION
APPEALS HEARD
EleTOn We're Filed With
Judge SpruancO
TEN APPLICANTS ARE COLORED
Associate Judge Would Not Put Robert
II. Allen on tie List Because Of
] insufficient Evidence
TEN APPLICANTS ARE COLORED

Associate Justice William c. Spru-
ance sat in the County Court room
this morning to hear appeals from the
decisions of registration officers in the
various districts OF New Castle county.
Harry p. Joslyn made application
that the names OF the following be put
on the registration lists on the ground
that the registrars had refused to put
them on: Israel Clarkson, colored, re-
fused September Is; John Taylor, col |
ored, refused September Is; Robert
Henry Allen, colored, refused October
20 in the First district Of the Eleventh
representative district Edward
yRourke. registrar. Edward w. Cooch !
represented the registrar The other
applications were: Thomas E. Riley,
Second election district OF the Tenth
representative, refused October 2Oii
William Morrison. registrar; Caleb
Davis, colored refused October 20, and
James Redding, colored, refused Sep
ltember 16.and James Wilmington, col
ored. Third election district of the
First representative district refused
October 20, Joshua Pyle, registrar;
George Jackson, colOred, refused Octo
ber 20. and Joseph Purnell, colored,
refused October 20. and Joseph Pur-
nell, colored, refused August II, Third
election district of the Ninth
representative district, Henry Donald
son. registrar; William Startling. col
ored refused October 90, in Second
election district Of the Thirteenth rep
resentative district, Frank Hickman,
registrar.
Herbert l.. Rice presented an appli-
p cation of Harry Davis, colored, who
was refused on October 20, by Frank
Hickman, registrar, to be put on the
. lists in the Second election district Of
the Thirteenth representative district.
, All OF the applicants were sworn.
With the exception of one all were
3 colored men.
Judge Spruance announced that only
appeals filed to-day would be heard
this week Il is expected that large
number OF appeals will be taken next
. Tuesday by both Democrats and Re
publicans
Josiah Marvel. who represents the
Democrats, gave notice that he had
several appeals to. make later in the
. day
I Judge Spruance stated that sub
l0tnNn Will Ut AnHMtM HN hAAA ANl eAn9
\ witnesses required at the hearings
s The Levy Court will not pay the fees
r. Of witnesses who attend these hear
q ings. On this point Judge Spruance
remarked that he hoped that legisla-
; tion would be made at the next term
= OF the Legislature to make it manda-
tory upon the Levy Court to pay such
, fees.
J, The case Of Robert Henry Allen was
e aiken up. Registrar O'Rourke refused
n to register him on Saturday on the
T ground that he was not a resident OF
Delaware. The registrar said that
. Allen had always voted in Maryland
r He had no personal knowledge of that
fact
{ Mr.. Cooch presented an affidavit of
{ a Cecil county registrar that Allen had
Q applied for regist-nt on On October 3,
g 1900. in ElktOn. Judge Spruance re-
Il fused to accept the affidavit, consid-
q ering It ex parte evidence.
Allen took the stand and stated that
d he had lived in Newark for six years,
D.; and had always claimed his home in
d Elkton. until August, 1899 He said
4 that he had applied for registration
n in Elkton on Cctcbcr 9, but that his
q name was taken for consideration.
r When asked by Judge Spruance why
l. he had applied iu both places to be put
on the lists. he said he had applied in
Maryland because il cost less in
Maryland to register than in Della
ware"
On the evidence presented Judge
Spruance said that he could not order
Aliens name put on the lists, but
: would give both sides an opportunity
to produce more evidence. The case
was continued until Thursday morn
ing. The case OF Taylor was contin-
i led until the same time.