The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-23
sa. - r.
FRIDAY;lAST DAY
There Are a,7OO Unregistered
Voters in Topeka. -
office Open Until 10 O'clock at
Night.
ARE YOU REGISTERED!
Every Male Citizen Should Look
Up His Record.
Looks as Though Primary Vote
Would Be Short.
ARE YOU REGISTEREDl

Have YOU registered yet? If not
you still have until 10 o'clock FRIDAY
night to do So The registration once
is open tonight till 10 o'clock. Re
member, If you have moved out OF
your ward since the election last
spring; or if you failed to vote at the
spring election you are not qualified
to vote at the primary next month. IL
Won have not moved ana If you voted
last spring you are o. X. with the
election commissioner and can vote at
the primary and fall erection without
registering.
Commissioner Titus stated today
that when the books closed last night
there were 1870 voters eligible to vote
at the August primary. on the basis
of 10000 qualified voters in the city
this would leave 2,73o voters yet to
register by 10 o'clock Friday night,
fat which hours the books close for
good. Since the books were opened
for the primary election registry 2,Os3
voters have registered. There were
5.1s7 legal voters left over from the
city election last April so this brings
the total OF qualified voters up to the
1870 noted above.
Last Saturday 236 voters registered.
On Monday there were 23a; Tuesday,
203; Wednesday. 279. 1t is expected
lndN at ltdSI fOU Will ItBlSlcI lOQdS .
which will leave few over 1000
voters In this city OUT in the cold
when the polls open for the primary
on the 4th OF next month. The proper
thing Is for everybody to get busy to-
day and bring the registration for the
day up to 500 or 1000 instead Of to
only 400 as was expected. The cleo
tion commissioners were very busy all
morning. The tardy ones came in
with rush toward noon and
threatened to swamp the recording
clerks. but the latter quickly caught
up and are prepared for the worst
this evening and tonight.
Commissioner Titus stated that
voters in certain portions of the Sec
ond, Third and Fourth wards will
have to vote at the special polling
places of the seventh precinct of the
Second ward. the fifth precinct of
the Third ward and the fifth precinct
of the Fourth ward at the August pri-
mary and the general election of
November 3, which have been created
for the purpose of enabling the voters
of the territory in these three wards
which has recently been added to the
city to cast their ballots for state
senator and representative of Shawnee
county and for commissioners of the
Second and Third districts. This terri
tory, while recently annexed to the
city, still remains under the existing
election law and is subject to the
Jurisdiction of the county in this re-
spect
The Fifth ward led the other wards
OF the city up to To-Day in registra-
ton activity by a slight margin. This
failure on the part of many citizens
to qualify for election shows a woe
full lack of public spirit. If these
individuals who fail TO register for
the election should De disfranchised
fhRX would he 70 he ~
insurrection against the law and gov
ernment, yet they will deliberately
disfranchise themselves by inaction in
the matter of registration.
II 1t is too hot in the daytime to
walk over to the city hall and register,
come up tonight in the cool of the
evening and fulfill this duty of
citizenship. Don't be a rabbit Of
flee of commissioner of elections open
till 10 o'clock tonight.