The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-20
General Registration of Voters TO
Be Held in City and County a
Week From Tomorrow
LAW HARD ONE TO ENFORCE
Clerk Will Not Have Time to Get Out
Printed Slips Showing List of
Voters by Day Set for the
Primary Election

The old list Of voters in Kenosha is
to be revised for under the state law
the city and county is forced to hold a
registration Of voters this year and
the first day for registration will be
Tuesday Aug. 25. The second registra-
ton day will be the day of the primary
election Sept i. There has been no
registration in Kenosha since the last
general election in 1906 and the lists
are of little value as they stand today.
It is thought that there will be a grand
rush for registration as the laws as now
interpreted provide that no votes shall
be accepted on the general election ex-
cept from registered voters. At the
recent primary election a great vote
was cast and if the election officials
follow the custom established in other
I years all Of these names will be copied
into the new registration books, but
Ethere is some doubt as to the right of
the election officials to copy lists in this
manner and it may be held that only
voters who appear on the special regis
tration days will be permitted to vote
on the general election.
A presidential election generally
bbrings out a decidedly full vote in Ke-
8nosha city and county and the poll
ticians are watching the registration
with great deal Of interest. Should
an effort be made to contest the copy
! ing of the names now on the rolls in
the various wards there is no doubt
but that great falling off in the vote
will be discovered, as it is pretty Ger.
| tain that hundreds of voters in the city
who were hauled to the polls during
tho bitter Democratic fight at the re
cent city primary will not be found in
evidence when it comes to the county
primaries this fall. The candidates fol
county nominations have tried to still
up this class of voters, but it will be
impossible to get them out unless they
are hauled to the polls. Of course all
people voting on the primary two weeks
from tomorrow will be registered fol
i the general election and it is thought
that this fact will aid in bringing out
a record vote at the primaries.
lJThere has been little change in the
voting lists of the county during the
last three or four years, but it is ex
pected that the registration this yeal
over the registration Of two years ago
No notices have as yet been posted
to call the attention of the voters tc
the registration days, but these will be
published during the present week.
City Clerk Harrington is in a quand
airy as to how the law is to be carried
out. The law requires that the first
registration day shall be week previ
GUS to the primary election and that
between that time and four days be
fore the primary the list of registered
voters shall be published and posted in
the various wards. This is a physical
impossib1lity as the list must be posted
on the Thursday after the registration
this leaving the clerk but one day in
which to get bids and have the long
lists published and posted. Clerk Har
rngton and aOity Attorney Slater have
been considering this matter, but az
yet they have found no way out Of the
difficulty
County Clerk Jones received from thc
secretary of state this morning the new
registration books and they vii be sem
out at once.