The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-07
Small Vote Predicted in Jef- fersOR COuD1--But Little
 Organized Opposition
FIVE PARTIES HAVE
 TICKETS IN THE FIELD
Presidential Electors, President of State R. R. Commission, Congress men and County Officers Are
 to Be Elected.

An election will be held tomorrow in 1 every voting place in the United States. l The most important office to be voted for l is that of President of the United States. | In some states governors are to be elect | ed, and in sone cities mayors are to be l balloted for. In a number Of states
 county and minor state officers will be chosen In Alabama there are five na-
 tional tickets In the field.
 The voters of Jefferson county will cast
 their ballots for presidential electors, a
 member of congress from the Ninth dis 1 trict of Alabama railroad commissioner for Alabama. county officers, and jus
 tices of the peace. Inasmuch as there
 is but little opposition in this state to the 1 regular democratic ticket the vote may
 not be especially large. small vote IS
 predicted for Jefferson.
 In Birmingham there will be four vot- ing places to-wit:
 l City hall.
 Southside fire department.
 Court house.
 Ice factory.
 l Everything Is ready for the opening of | the polls tomorrow morning at o'clock
 in the forty-five or more precincts in the l county.
 Cannot Register.
 Anent the question of voters having all I opportunity to register again this year, i Frank Deedmeyer, author of the Voters | Guide and one of the best informed men | in the state on such matters, states that the opportunity to register closed last 1 Saturday and will not occur again until
 July 1, 1906.
 | Mir. Deedmeyer cites the following sec
 tion in the new constitution and the gen. eral election laws, passed by the last leg
 islature Section 1S6 of the constitution provides that after the first of January, 1906, registration shall be conducted as
 the legislature may prescribe" The legis-
 lature did provide in section of the cleo tion laws that mo person shall be regis 1 tered, exceut between July of 1904 and
 October, 1904, and every two years there
 after between said dates providing, how ever, that Friday and Saturday next pre-
 ceding the day of each general and muni- cipal election held under the general municipal laws, the registrars shall sit in the court house of each county of the cities included in the general municipal | laws"
 'Under this act" continued MT. Decd meyer, "an opportunity is given to reg ister on Friday and Saturday before the | first Tuesday after the first Monday in l November of every four years. As the legislature. however, failed to pass a gen. | lau hot n Q section pertaining to the question of reg istering on Friday and Saturday before i the municipal election is imperative. Therefore, under the present law the reg istration books will not be opened un- 1 til July 1, 1906'
 The following instructions to voters will l be posted at all the voting places; | Any person wishing to vote must call upon one of the inspectors, who will fur l nish him a ballot, with stub attached, and one of the inspectors initials writ
 ten on this stub so as to identify it. None
 but the offica1 ballot can be used and the can only be obtained from the inspec- | tors.
 | If the elector desires to vote straight I ticket, that is for each and every candi- | date for one party for whatever offlce nominated, he shall mark CD cross ! mark in the circle under the name or the party at the head of the ticket. 1 When only one candidate Is to be elect | ed to any office and the elector desires to vote for a candidate not on this party
 ticket, he may make ! C,O mark before
 the name of the candidate for whom he desires to vote on the other ticket.
 When two or more candidates are to
 be elected to the same office, and he l desires to vote for candidates on different l tickets for such office, he may make | CX) mark before the name of the candi-
 dates for whom he desires to vote on the other ticket and must also erase an equal number of names of candidates
 on his party ticket for the same office
 for whom he does not desire to vote
 If inc elector desires to vote split
 ticket, that is, for candidates or different
 parties. he may make CX) mark In the
 voting space before the name or eacn candidate for whom he desires to vote on
 whatever ticket he may be.
 If the ticket marked in the circle for a
 straight ticket does not contain the names of candidates for all offices for which the
 elector may vote, he may vote Tor canol-
 dates for such offices so omitted by mak- ing (x) mark before the names Of can
 didates for such offices on other tickets,
 or by writing the names if they are not
 printed upon the ballot in t. blank col
 umn under the title of the office. If the elector desires to vote for any person whose name does not appear upon the ballot. he can so vote by writing the
 name in the proper place in the bank column. The elector can vote blank for
 any office on his party ticket by making
 cross (x) mark in the circle at the top of the ticket and striking out with pencil or pen the nome or names of candi- dates he does not desire to vote for on the ticket.
 If in preparing your ballot you should in any way spoil 1t or get it defaced in
 any way, return it to the inspector and
 so inform him. and another ballot will be | given you. No ballot must be carried out of the polling room.
 Each political party Is entitled to a watcher to be appointed by the chair man or other he'd of the political party who can remain in the room from the