The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-19
ALL RECORDS
 ARE BROKEN Hundreds of Voters Are
 Enrolled. RUSH TO REGISTER SURPRISE Captain Jones Withdraws From Race for Alderman at Large. Registrars Mahcney and Jones Kept Busy all Day Lons, With Line
 of Citisens Awaiting Their

The first day of the registration of city voters was record breaking in the number of voters who applied for reg istration, and before the books closed at o'clock. 2ss voters had been given certificates. More would have been registered if the registrars had had time to register them.
 There was not minute in the day but that voters were waiting to have their names taken and. to be given cer- tificates. The registrars. Messrs. E J. Mahoney and W. K. Jones, had all they could possibly do during the day The rush to register was bit of q surprise to local politicians. IL evt. denced a deeper interest in the present campaign than they had thought
 The development of special political importance fin the day was the an- nouncement made by Captain W. B. Jones that he would not make tho race for Alderman-at-Large, as 1t was thought he would do until yesterday. Developments in certain important af- fairs in which Captain Jones is inter ested will demand his tims and atten- tion for the next few weeks. He found that 1t would be impossible to give two weeks to canvass of the voters of the city without sacrifice of his business interests.
 Captain Jones' withdrawaf leaves the race for the three places to Messrs. Ira H. Virgin. Gaston qunter. ". D. Peck and Berto H. Johnson.
 Ward Three easily led in the regis tration yesterday. sixty-three voters of that Ward having been given certifi- cates. The smallest registration was Ward Seven, in which only eighteen voters registered. The registration was divided among the Wards as fol- lows: Ward One. 45; Ward Two, 36; Ward Three. 6s; Ward Four. 53; Ward Five. A; Ward Six, ss: Ward Seven. IS.
 The registration began early and was briskly continuous. To Alderman James J. Sullivan of the Sixth Ward fell the distinction of being the first to register. Having misunderstood the time of the opening of the registration ofice, MT. Sullivan came to the ofice atv7:3o o'clock and had q long walt. He was rewarded, however, by having the privilege of putting his name upon the first line of the first page, and receiv- ing a registration certificate that was numbered One"
 At g o'clock the candidates for reg istration. as well as the candidates for election to the City Council had begun to gather and the line of prospective voters approaching the booth was un- broken.
 Upon the sidewalk in front of the booth was gathered a crowd which though composed, so to speak, of a "noating populations" inasmuch as 1t was composed of registered voters constantly changing, never lost any thing in size. Candidates for the hon. or of representing their wards in tho City Council were very busy and the voters were approached before and af- ter they had been registered
 Several of the candidates remained at the place of registration during the entire day. not overlooking a single constituent.
 It has been arranged by the regis- trars to take the hours between 1 and o'clock for dinner, making the hours for registration from a. m. to p. m. and from 3 to ?. m.