The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26
REGISTER TONIGHT.
If Your Name Isn't Written There
VIII Be Too Late.

Registration for the fall election
closes this evening at 10 O'Clock. The
last round I'D of recreant voters who
have failed to register or who by some
lapse on their part lost the rights con
ferred by their registration at this
81 rings municipal campaign is being
made today by the Republican and
Democratic forces
Ten carriages with workers attach
ed to each carriage are engaged today
bringing the Republican voters to reg
ister- For the past week unusual ac-
tivity has been manifested by the Re
publican county central committee in
getting every voter. lacking registra-
ton, to the commissioner of elections
Office where the registration books are
kept As the result OF this Reese Van
SAINT, chairman of the central commit
tee said today. I'VE only need a few
hundred more to get every Republican
voter in the city registered. We will
get these today and by ten o'clock this
evening the registration as far as the
Republican voters are concerned viii
exceed that Of last spring This is
speaking OF the male registration only
the women do not vote at the fail
election and no special effort has been
made to curry registra ticn from their
ranks.
The registration for Thursday was
any one day and breaks .h= record
today however, viii go it one better
in all probability. According to an
estimate made by Captain e. H. Titus.
commission of lections, $50 voters
are still needed to equal the male reg
istration of last spring when out Of a
total registration of I3,96S, 9.494 were
men.
Il can't give any exact estimate of
what the registration amounts to
now" said Commissioner Titus. 1T
will take considerable time TO figure 1t
out and we have been so busy that it
has been impossible for US almost to
think of it. I think that it vii come
close to last year, however.
What sort of registration is it :?
Well. sir, it's hard to say. The people
simply come in here to register and it
isn't easy to tell the political COM
plexion. I think that the Democrats
have got their voters pretty well regis
tered. I don't know how it stands
with the Republicans"
I'VE have been going at our voters
in a quiet way" said D. W, Morgan
of the Democratic county central com
mittee. eve haven't any carriages
and simply have been going from house
TO house. Wherever We knew Demo-
crat lived we have seen him PERSONAL
ly and found out about his registration.
If they haven't seen fit to go down
town to the commissioners Office and
register, we don't want them to vote,
that's all. We want people who take
some interest Most of the members
of the Democratic party in the city
have been registered and I think that
We have cleaned things up in pretty
fair shape. The number viii equal
that of last spring. Last nights meet
ing at the Auditorium scared US little
but we have gotten over that. We be-
Iieve that there are large number OF
our Republican friends who will vote
the Democratic ticket on the 9Th OF
November"
Quite a number of people who can't
get down town want to register by
proxy, not knowing that the law does
not permit anything but personal reg
istration.
One man called up the commissioner
of elections Office this morning over the
long distance phone from Kansas City.
He wanted the commissioner to regis
ter him. He was told that he would
have to come here In person, that no
one else could perform the duty for
him.
Seven clerks have been employed
during the rush in handling the regis
tration, and every one of them was
kept so busy that they were glad
when the hour at noon came to give
a few minutes of respite.