The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-05
FOR 3 VOTES, SIl.
That Is What These Will Cost
the City.
Are I'm Fifth Precinct OF Fourth
Ward.
LOT OF RED TAPE.
That Is What Causes the Com
plication.
Several Other Precincts Nearly
as Bad.

There is one precinct in the city which
will get done counting it's vote very
early next Tuesday night. 1t is the
fifth precinct of the Fourth ward, which
has just three registered voters.
The three voters are d. G. Haggart,
C. w. Charlson and w. B. Dick. 1t
ought to be easy to tell whether these
gentlemen scratch or not.
d. G. Haggart will be supervisor of
the election. also Judge and clerk. The
voting place will be in his parlor at log
Clay street. He will get $3.50 for count
ing the three regular election ballots,
$3.50 for counting the three bond bal
lots, 81 Tor acting as supervisor, and 50
for the use OF his house as a voting
place. Total for the days work, $11.0O.
Under the law as interpreted by the SUI
preme court, voters can not be dis
franchfsed by the fact that the full cleo
ton board is not organized for business.
Election Commissioner Williams would
certainly be in trouble if he had to Sc
lect a supervisor. two judges and two
clerks when there are only three regis
tered voters in the precinct.
The fifth precinct of the Fourth ward
comprises two small tracts of land
which were annexed to the city a year
ago. They could not be included in
any of the existing precincts because
they have to vote for representative in
the country district instead of in the
city. The boundaries of the legislative
district remain the same as they were
before the territory was annexed. If
the three registered voters are Republi-
cans, they will vote for Robert Stone
for representative, while the remainder
of the Republicans in the Fourth ward
will vote for w. A. S. Bird.
A similar condition exists down in
the Second ward, where a sixth pre-
cinct has been organized of several
widely separated tracts which were re-
Gently n xaffx hn Nynf iT1c
place will be at Benson's store in Swy-
CARTS addition, but some of the voters
live in another addition down by the
river There are about 40 registered
voters in this precinct. 81 of whom are
men.
Election Commissioner Williams, to-
gether with a force of clerks, is at
work now checking over the registra-
plies ready, and swearing in the judges
and clerks of the election. The exact
figures on the registration will proba-
bly, not be announced until Monday.
a couple of men at work in the COM
miss1oner's office comparing and cor
recting the last years poll books, which
are used by the ward workers
o. K. Swayze denies the statement
which has been made that the decrease
in the registration is due to a falling
off in the population of Topeka. Swayze
is the head man in the work of prepar-
ing RduSeS new directory, ana rs
ought to know. He said today:
II don't take any stock in that state
ment that the population of Topeka
has fallen off. and that the registration
has decreased on this account AS far
as 1 can see, everything indicates that
there has been a gain in population,
though we can't give an estimate on
how much until we finish up one or
two letters of the alphabet and COM
pare the figures with the last directory.
There has not been as large "a falling
off in the population of North Topeka
as some people seem to think, and the
other portions of the city have been
gaining rapidly"