Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-28
COUNTY CHA|RnEN
HJsTLING VOTES
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Last Chance TO Register Closes
With the Registration Offices
This Evening.
BIG GROWTH IN THE TOTAL.
Tho Books, 1t Is Claimed, Contain
Names Of 10000 Qualified Voters
In Salt Lake County.

Have you registered yet? II you have
not, and this matter has not been called
to your attention forcibly by distrc
haul you to the polls. then it Is be.
cause you have escaped the 900 Re-
publican workers. the 800 Democratic
workers, and the 600 odd american
Workers, all OUT the field in the hope
OF driving the unregistered vote to the
registration offices. There is still Z,
final hour for work this afternoon, and
When the Offices close tonight the
4 chancet to register closes with them.
a great surprise may greet every sin
gle voter on the morning after election
And, whoever may win, the surprise
VIII no doubt be equally welcome to ali.
x ~ WIZ be at he size Of the total vote.
3sSi N Z many Giectlons ago, IL Salt Lax.
f county competing parties split up 20
+ wv wy votes between tnein they thought
& tney We're doing Well. In the last cleo
sllon they prepared their estimates on
4 the task OF splitting up 2b,uOU votes.
. me re turns showed nearly 10000 votes,
2 ana woke everybody up to what the
many new homes, the pressure fots
houses TO rent, and the general adj
Vancement In civic progress meant to
the city The surprising total may be
passed this election by another lU,UUU
voters.
AT least this Is what Republican Chair
man j u. Eidredge SAID lhIs morning,
ana OF all WORKERS. III the political tieiu
Chairman Eidrcdge is conceded without
contest TO be the best informed, anu
the most careIui organizer OF his forces
Tor thorough canvass, and a heavy per-
5centage or voters.
We registered fully 5000 voters
yesterday, declared Chairman Ell
dredge," makes the total number upon
the books eligible to vote, nearly 40,UOO.
! should not be surprised to see the vote
this fall close to the 10000 mark. The
people are interested. and the vote Will
come out"
WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING.
At none Of the other headquarters
could accurate information about the
registration be secured. Chairman
Lloyd of the Democrats said that he
had 800 workers out and so carriages,
and was doing all that could be done
10 get the voters registered Accurate
reports from the registration offices he
however had not received.
33I, American Chairman McGinty flg.
ured, without data at hand. that the
total registration approached $500 anu
that so percento of the '.American' vote
was registered
Chairman Eldredgc had the figures
before him as sent In from the dis.
trtct chairman on duty at each regis
try office, and he declares that the fig
ure of 5000 registrations yesterday,
not counting the results Of today's
sEork.iSsis an actual compilation, with Il
esuma ties added for outside centers
by the chairmen In charge. A phone
message today from Garfield said that
200 had registered there and the
employed to see that the vote regis |
tered, and to- drive carriages reported |
back to county headquarters THIS |
morning that they had seen everyone |
on the lists furnished, and were In
need of new lists. This Chairman
iI.laredge took to indicate that
tue rush to register occurred yes
or II was finished 50 that no stampede
OF last CHANGERS" may be looked for
tonight
The forces of the Republicans in the
county numbered 700 workers for the
city alone. and $50 carriages. MANY |
u tnesa were country carriages hired
from Davis county and Utah county
towns. as the Salt Lake supply was
exhausted by the demands.
Preceding the work of the final reg
Istration days canvass mad been fully
made. 1t had been checked with the
registration books, and every district
chairman had In his possession list of
.A a1 VINO were and who We're not
registered, with the political affiliations
or each voter noted. Postal cards in
addition had been sent to those not
registered. and this careful work result
"a IN the overflow rush to register
which ,li, was recorded in the district re-