The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-11-05
REGISTRATION SHORT
Total Falls Below the Number Of
Four Years Ago.

of Oskaloosa is behind that of four
years ago when the Roosevelt and
Parker, campaign was before the PEG.
pie. 1t is not much short of the fig
ures of that year and numerous reg
istrations of indisposed parties, to be
cared for today, and the registration
of those on Tuesday who will be per-
mitted to vote under the law will
give total above that of four years
ago. t-M
The total registration of the two
years is: Fl
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These figures show falling off of
thirty-eight names from the total of
1904.
The total registration of Saturday
was three hundred and ninety-two
votes, or twenty-nine short of the reg
istration of the fourth day of 1904,
which was four hundred and twenty
one. When the boards opened for
work Saturday the registration had to
record 430 names to make the regis
tration of 1904. This they failed TO
do. The total showing of Saturdays
work was only 1872, or a shortage of
thirty-eight.
Not a ward in the city made a reg
istrat.on of all voters. In the First
ward J. H. Hensal states that no less
than sixteen people refused to regis
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that they had no interest in the cleo
ton. He has the names of about for
ty unregistered voters in the ward
in the second ward where extra effort
was made to get out the voters, w. r.
Campfeld, democratic chairman; of
the ward, Claims to have, "a list of
one hundred and fifty names of unreg-
istered voters. The unregistered
names in the Third ward are about
fifty or seventy-tive, and the Fourth
ward has twenty-five to fifty. The
party poll books of the Fifth ward
give names and residences of fifty-five
unregistered citizens. The shortage
in the several wards shows a total of
between three and four hundred I'M
registered voters. The total registra-
ton of the city should be about TWEEN
ty-six hundred. The people are in
the city and the reason for the neg
lect to register for the election is
difficult to understand
In several instances voters have
taken exception to the form of reg
istration. Naturalized foreigners have
refused to bring their papers, stating
they were examined by one board and
they would not submit to the practice
lover and over again. Others claimed
they had registered once in years past
that everyone knew they were a cit
izen and entitled to vote and If they
had to go before a board again and
swear in their citizenship to be per-
mitted to exercise their right of fran
chise, they would do without the both
er and the voting: The Third ward
registrars had hard time pacifying
peopel of this character and in all
wards complaints of THIS character
are heard. Other citizens were miffed
because they made application to the
wrong board and were sent elsewhere.
All of the boards have had strenu-
Gus and unpleasant time during the
four days of the registration of the
vote to be cast Tuesday.
The tables for the registrations of
the year 1908 compared with those of
1904 are appended. They show the
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the four days of the boards work. the
total registration for the wards and
the totals for the separate days.
They make an interesting record to
the student of such things
1908.
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