The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-08
PURGING The LISTS
REGISTRARS DIsQUALIFY 1.O35 VO-
TIERS FROM CITY DISTRICTS.
N0N-PAYMENT OF TAXES
THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF DIsQUAL-
IFICATION.

some of Those Stricken From the
List Have Paid Their Taxes and
Been RcpIaced-Othcrs, 1t is Ex-
pected, VIII Follow Suit-Candi-
dates Have Lists and Are RemOv-
ing Disabilities of Their Friends.
Purged - Number of Qualified
Voters VIII Reach 5,SOO-Candi-
dates Asked TO Nominate Aaanag-
ers.
The County Board of Registrars has
been busily at work for the past four or
five days on the list of voters to be used
at next Fridays election. Mr.. Robert
Dreamer, a member of the board. stated
last night that good progress had been
made and that 1.O35 names had been taken
off the registration list for the four city
districts.
This is as far as the registrars have yet
progressed, though the Fifth, Sixth, Sew
enth and Eighth, the country districts, are
now being gone over carefully, and those
not qualified to vote stricken from the
lists. This part of the work will be com
pleted, Mr. Creamer stated, by Monday
morning or afternoon.
OF the 1,O35 names that were taken
from the voting lists for the four city dis
tricts, 344 are from the Fourth. The dis
qualifications are being made principally
for non-payment of taxes, many of those
who have registered having failed to COM
ply with this other prerequisite to vot-
ing. OF those disqualified by the regis
trars thirty-five or forty have paid up
their taxes and their names will be placed
back on the voting list. As many of those
thus deprived of the right to ballot are
men of standing and prominence in the
community, it is unlikely that they will
permit themselves thus to be deprived of
the privilege of testifying their admira-
ton for their particular candidates, and
they will probably come across with the
amount of their taxes before the election
day.
Already all of the avowed candidates
for office or their friends have been pro-
vided by the registrars, at their request,
with copies of the disqualified voters
list, and they will see 20 it that those they
are certain will vote right will be placed
back on the list. The registrars will con-
clude their labors at 6 o'clock on Thur
sday evening and after that time those
who have been disqualified for non-pay-
ment of taxes or other disabilities and
have not removed the disabilities and call
ed the attention of the registrars to the
fact will stay off the list.
Their votes are certain to be challenged
at the box and they win then be required
to exhibit their tax receipts or other evil
dences of the fact that their disabilities
have been removed, before they will be
permitted to deposit their ballots.
All of the lists will be checked over
carefully before they are finally turned
over to the commissioners for delivery to
the managers of election. The lists are
being typewriter, and it is important
there should be no mistake, as slight
error would serve possibly to debar a
! duly qualified voter of the right to ex-
press his preferences at the polls.
Mr.. Dreamer estimates that the list of
qualified voters, after those now disqual-
flied have been added, upon the payment
of their taxes, will contain about IS
names. The number of candidates in the
field make it likely that a large percen-
tage of these votes will be cast on Fri
! day next.
Chairman J. ]. Dale, to whom the
| County Commissioners have confided the
| selection of managers and clerks for the
| election for tax collector and ordinary
will make the selection next week.
Mr.. Dale is anxious to give the several
candidates for office representation among
| the managers and clerks at the several
| boxes and to that end would have them
! submit to him lists of those they wish to
have appointed. From these lists the
managers and clerks will be chosen.