Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-28
THE LAST CALL.
New Voters Must be Sworn in To-Night or
 Wait.


 This is the last day for issuing nat uralization papers and making elect ors this year, except for those who will mature between now and No-' vember 8, and everybody whose name is on the list should avail himself ot the opportunity. The court will be 1n session this afternoon and evening at the new building on LeavenWorth street and the board of registration will sit until 8 o'clock tonight, or as long as there is anything to do in the court room at the City hall People who work in the factories and cannot get out during the day needn't go home at quitting time for change Of clothes unless they want to. Neither the court nor the board of registration will ind fault about applicants appearing in their working costumes. Why should they?s Isn't a voter with an overalls on as powerful for good or evil on election day as the fellow in broad clothq He is and this is one reason why everybody who Is eligible should crowd in and be admitted to the fraE-, chise and thus become factors In de- termining the result of the November contest, something in which all the men at the bench in the factory as well as the coal baron has common interest, and the beauty of 1t Is in this country one has just as much strength at the polls as the other provided he knows how to use it. The coal baron won't get his ballot into the wrong box. but unfortunately for the good of AH. Ar1l &Sx<A nf4 Fa. mains away altogether or when he does approach the polls he exercises somebody eIse's judgment instead of his own, a plan of conclusions he made oath not to employ when he was made an elector. But everybody who can should have & vote anyway, and as many as are not capable of decid- ing what to do with them will not be short of advisers if they care to follow the jolliers that raised the price of flour from $4.50 barrel to $7.50 in the last four years and added nothing to their wages, that will be their priv ilege. Of course the law never in tended to clothe such people with the franchise, but it seems they get there and they don't be long in possession of the weapon when somebody crops up) to act as conservatorS over them with the result that what the govern ment intended every man should dis pose of according to his own best Judgment is frequently used as others suggest. If every electOr would take counsel with himself, considering only his own interests and that of the, country he lives in, 1t would be mighty hard to convince the average voter that an advance in the cost of breadstuffs without corresponding increase in wages could possibly be of any benefit to him or the country in general, even though such as course would prove big thing for a few. Why If people could be got to reason this way you couldn't force a man to cast his ballot for a continuation of such a condition of affairs with the aid of dozen cannon, each more for nidable than the one the republicans aimed at the audience in Polls the other night ..- ...a
 George A. Sweetland of Bristol, can didate for governor of the socialist party, will address meeting in this city Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
 The object of those who forced the investigation was to unseat Reed Smoot, the republican United States senator, on the ground that he is a violator of the law of the land against polygamy. It is announced that the republican leaders have agreed with the church that Smoot shall not be disturbed. The leaders of the Mormon organization are to be allowed to con tinue to maintain their polygamols practices President Roosevelt sent his agent. Mir Clarkson, to whom he gave a fat office in the New York custom house, to Utah, and the announcement that the electoral vote of the state is assured to the republicans was made immediately afterward. The bargain was made with as little concealment as was the trade which Roosevelt made with Addicks in Delaware, and the democratic managers realize that it is hopeless to make any appeal for votes in Utah this year. It will not be sur prising if the majority for Roosevelt in Utah this year is as large as it was for Bryan in 1896 S3 per cent This is one of the topics upon which the republican editors and orators in this part of the country maintain dis, erect silence. Hartford Times.