The daily sentinel., 1906-07-25
LITTLE INTEREST TAKEN.
In Matter of Registering to Vote at
Coming Municipal Election
Many Neglected Doing So
Till too Late.

+ Owint to the fact that Official !
: announcement had not been Z
+ made as to the time allowed for !
+ registration of those otherwise :
I. qualified to vote at the coming !
+ city election or as to having ad- !
= dress changed, if resident had ;
+ moved from one precinct to an {
! other since voting last. numer- :
: Gus citizens failed to get their +
names lawfully entered upon :
: the registration books and are I.
+ therefore unable to vote on the :
+ mountain water proposition. !.
Also II might be said that judging
from the attention paid to the mat
ter of registering no great amount of
interest is being taken in the noun
tain water fight among the citizens
generally.
The same laws of registration gov
ern a special city or municipal cleo
tion that govern a regular county.
state or national election, in this
state.
Citizens of the proper age who are
entitled to vote~as far as length ofresi
idence is concerned, must register Is
days prior to the date of the cleo
ton. Therefore if citizen who was
entitled TO register did not do so on
or before Monday July 16th he can
not register for the mountain water
election and is therefore unable to
cast a vote either for or against the
proposition.
The registration books were clos
ed at the county offices on the even
ing OF Monday. July 10. If you have
not registered you cannot vote on
Wednesday. August l.
OF course this particularly affects
the newer citizens. those who have
mad their names on the registration
books all along and have not chang.
ed their place of residence during
the past year, or since they voted
last are safe and can vote.
Ihe law further provides that the
registration books shall be open to
citizens who have changed their
place OF residence during the year
and who in order to vote must have
their address changed on these hooks
Tor tve days after the books have
closed for fun registrations, or in
this case until July 21.
County Clerk Mann stated this
morning that since the special cleo
ton to vote on the issuance of noun
tain water bonds was announced. only
one new registration has been record
ed, that og George Toupaine who
recently returned home from Alaska
and only three voters called to have
their addresses changed. BY this
fact 1t might be concluded that lit
tie interest is being taken among the
newer citizens at least in the COM
ing election or among the older resi-
dents for that matter who evident
ly made no effort to get unregistered
citizens to register.
County Clerk Mann stated, how
ever, that after it was too late. or
since July 16th, quite a number of
people have called to register but
were turned away disappointed. Near
ly all of these We're uniformed as to
the time of registering.
1t is evident that a large number
of people who had never been regis
tered or who had changed their resi-
dence, simply neglected the matter
and are now without vote upon the
mountain water question.
IL is pretty certain that there Will
be comparatively light vote owing
to the fact that only people who have
paid property tax within the last year
can vote and that scores of people
failed to register.