The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-24
TOTAL is NOW 13,S61.
ExOrbitant Fees VIII Be Paid
Election Judges.
List of Supervisors Announced
by Election Commissioner.

Today at noon the total registration
was as follows: Men, 1888; women,
5.6Ts; total. 1851.
It was thought that by this time the
registration would have passed the A.
900 mark. AS it is, nearly everything
which is coming in is favorable to the
Democrats.
Several carriages are busily coming
and going at the registration office and
they are all working for Heery. Sew
eral of the rigs furnished by Hank
Lindsey are putting in all their time in
the first and second precincts of the
Fourth ward, and it is believed that
there is a good opportunity for the
Democrats to carry that ward unless
the law and order people come out of
their shells and remember that there
is going to be an election in two weeks.
The total registration for the spring
election two years ago was 1851. There
are more than 1000 to be registered in
the next three days in order to equal
that registration.
There are now 1000 more men regis
tered than there are women. This great
disparity is not a hopeful sign for the
law and order forces. The women
seem to be neglecting the opportunity
to place in office the law and order can
didates.
There is no way of ascertaining at the
present time the relative registration of
the different wards, but Election Com
missioner Williams estimate that at
this time the Sixth ward is at least 500
votes behind in its registration. The
Third ward is also far in the
rear, and the Fourth is still owing sew
eral hundred registrations. None of
these wards which are shy on regis
tration are Heery wards. so it is a
cause for worry and grief at Republi-
can headquarters
BIG PAY FOR JUDGES.
The job of judge or clerk of the COM
ing city election will be worth having.
The pay will be all the way from about
IS a day in the smallest precinct in the
city to ABOUT s25 a day in the largest
precincts.
BY the decision of City Attorney
Spencer, it has been settled that the
city must hold three separate elections
on April 7; one for the election of city
officials one for the waterw0rks bonds
proposition, and one for the school bond
proDosition As 1t required to keep the
male and female votes in each election
separate, it viii be necessry to have
six ballot boxes at each election pre-
cinct.
election will be something terrific, un-
less Mr.. Spencer can dig up some other
kind of an opinion on the subject The
law allows the judges and clerks 81. so
for the first $50 votes cast at the pre-
cinct, and 81 a hundred for all votes
after that If Mr.. Spencer is correct
on the ruling that three separate cleo
tons Will be held, there seems to be
nothing to prevent the one set of judges
and clerks from drawing what the law
49,. Va
AT this rate it will cost the city about
50, 900 simply as fees for the judges and
clerks.
AS an eAdliiple o. No q - - - s -
JOB VIII pe HelillSu -, - - ,Ji+
and clerks IN some OF the plS precincts
take the vote winch was cast Two years
ago in the Parker-HugheS race III tiS
fourth precinct Of the second Ward
SID or the flrst precliesl OF ths liie e.I
GOD. On the general election the zee
would be as follows:
$50 votes at $3.50. SOU
600 votes at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500
n votes at Observation-Disclosures. 100
rro+a1 - IS so
NJ +b;e ,oust he added the fees on
- bond rronosifions SupDose
- 49,, -. - nm behind the total
e'ii ITo,,o,., iection The total for
Of thT 5iie oi a. lo1,id he 81 "a THE
eacn Dollu e gob 5,,doa ar clerk in the
Whoie zee " 80 10 e59 "a III
preclnct NoutI - s,,1.,.,-ieo7, would
aduleloh 70 wltioii - The eunnIias
get 81 extra Aoi "a ~, = -, i-,ir-lsr ~
from the ONE OA elle ~. ,e4,,,.,7.
election ana pfihsiA-s ~ - r. I'D
In the first pfeclnc1 q til7 ~ va a. a.
where the highest vote vas polle s,. ~
the election Of 1901, the ices LOT eaS II - -
the judges ana CLERKS WoulI ; De - ~ ~,
with 81 extra for the supervisor nc
average fees IN the city Moul s ~. pe TO-,
tween SIS and so Tor edch Oh the iV'
judges and clerks
WILL HAVE HARD WORk
But the judges and clerks VIII nave
work to do It is no sinecure., Lhey
win have to begin work at 3 o CLOCK N
the morning of April Z, ana the chances
are that they viii have "A hours work
without rest even in the smaller pre-
cincts. In the big pfecihets thsy IndE
not finish counting unui Wen aiohs Ia
the next day, and the law says that tns
board shall not adjourn or postpone tne
counting of ballots FOR any reason.