The daily sentinel., 1909-03-16
NOT REGISTERED
BY MIR. MCKINNEY

the law and believer in fair elections
hopes to see them deservedly pun
ished.
The morning paper charges that
these men were registered by Ed
Mckinney, owner of the Board of
Trade saloon, and that he was re-
sponsible for their presence at the
county clerks office MIR. Mckinney
declared this morning that he did not
take the men there, that he did not
ask to have them registered, that he
did not vouch for n single one of
them. He visited the county clerks
office last night mt one time to see
MIR. Starr on Il matter of personal
business and he was there when
these men came in.
1nis morning number of the
ministers and other anti-saloon work
ers were declaring that Mr. McKin-
ney had vouehed for several of these
men and We're making all kinds of
similar charges, yet when they eX-
ahmed the registration books they
found that MIR. Mckinney had not
registered for any voter last night or
any other time since Monday, March
\, over week ago.
Again the morning sheet attempts
to cast dirty reflection on the work
of County Clerk Starr and on the
HNA 1tAS toudN Il uulnDeE Oh lne anti
saloon leaders have been heard to
declare their belief that Mr. Starr is
ready to permit false registrations in
an effort to help the saloon men. The
Sentinel does not believe there is the
least grounds for such insinuations
or charges. County Clerk Starr has
acted in fair and impartial manner
throughout tho registration period.
Honest men on both sides of the sa-
loon question win admit this. The
office was not secretly opened last
night. County Clerk Starr has al
ways made it point DUNG rcgistra-
tion periods to accommodate men of
all parties in the matter of register
ing voters during the early evening
hours If il was not convenient for
these voters to get in during the day
He several days ago informed the
ministers and ant-saloon workers
that he would open the office any
evening within the registration per-
iod If they desired him to do so in
order to register voters that were nn-
able to get in in the day time This
shows how unjust and uncalled for
are the insinuations of the morning
sheet and its champions. If voter
comes before County Clerk Starr and
asks to be registered, has the proper
vouchers and he and his vouchers
take the proper oath, Mr. Starr has
no other course to follow than to
register this voter.
An officer who has watched the
registration done by both the saloon
men and the anti-saloon men, de-
clared today that neither side is free
or clear of the charges of practicing
Irregularities.
1t is known the workers for the
tanti-saloon movement have attempted
to get the clerk or his deputies to
register foreigners who could not
show naturalization papers and these
workers were very indignant when
the clerk or the deputy would refuse
to register the individual 1t is said
that not few people who have lived
here continuously for even half a
year have registered. after swearing
that they were legally entitled to vote
here and were lawfully qualified, and
these people were not vouched for by
saloon men either.
There is no excuse whatever for a
man or woman swearing falsely in
order to register and The Sentinel
sincerely hopes that every person
found guilty of such a practice. no
matter who he or she may be. viii
be detected and punished.
There is not a candidate on the
Citizens & Taxpayers League ticket
but what Indignantly protests against
any such practices and none of these
candidates nor any of the officials or
leaders in the campaign for the cleo
tiOn of the Citizens ~ Taxpayers
League ticket has countenanced any
such action or will countenance any
such action. The Citizens G Tax
payers League ticket is making a
clean. fair and respectable campaign
and dirty attacks made by the morn
ing paper will only act as boomerangs
for that sheet and the people cham