The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-16
WHOLESALE
 REDUCTIONS Of 6,5OO Registered for Pri- maries, 4,OOO May Be
 Thrown Out HUGH FRAUDS
 ARE TINTED AT In Some Cases Workers Wrote Names Wholesale
 From Voting Lists Application of Same Person Appears Four or Five
 Times in Gases

With 6,50O applications for enroll rhent upon the primary lists of the two big parties before them, General Reg istrars Rooney and Lounsbury will be the two busiest men in town for the next three or four days and the cleo tion workers who piled the applica- tfons into the office of the registrars few hours before the closing time on Saturday night are anxiously wait ing to see the lists. It is the largest enrolment in the history of the city and its pretty kettle of fish for the registrars who have got to do the sorting. Out of the $500 applications that have been received it is not be- on the lists. In the culling process there are many conditions which will throw out the applications
 Where one elector has filed applica- tion to go on both lists his name will not appear on any list.
 Requests to be changed from one list to another unless made in person, or by letter. or postal card will not be noticed.
 There are instances in which some of the party workers have been "dou ble crossed'' by the electors. The cleo tors made applications upon the print ed slips presented to them by Republ1- can workers and then addressed
 
 asking to be placed on the Democratic lists. The card will take precedence over the request on the slip.
 There are going to be some disap- pointed workers when the lists come of instances the name of the applicant will not appear at all. Then again there will be surprises for the candf- dates. who believe that the voters who signed the slips handed to them are going to vote for them. On the other hand there are hundreds of electors who also signed for the other fellow. There are four or five instances where the same man asked to be placed on Ninth district and every man who handed in a list thinks that the cum ming elector who so willingly signed an application is really for him, first. last, and al 1.-the time.
 While the registrars were of the opinion on Saturday noon that there would be easily 75i per cent. of the names on the voting lists enrolled on cent. of the so-called independent vot- CTS, they now say this morning that the number may reach S5 per cent:
 The greatest work for the anti-Lee was done in the 11th district where 19O applications were filed by Alderman Eugene I. Myers and his friends.
 When James N. Booth filed his batch or appllcdtlOnS rom the N1nln OlSIT1CI on Saturday night they showed he had made a careful and methodfcal can vass. His applications were all num- bered and carefully made out. Each slip was signed by the elector making the application and there had appar- ently been no guess work. B. F. Cooney filed a. somewhat larger num- Der.
 In some of the districts it was ap- parent that the workers had checked off the voting list and then made ap- plication for every e1ector whom they thought will be all right. There will be many a voter who will wonder how his name got on the primary list when he made no application.
 Conservative workers do not believe that such wholesale rejections of names will be necessary. They say that if they are necessary that gross frauds have been perpertrated by somebody They point to the asser- ton that some workers have written names off from the voting lists onto the primary lists without seeing the voters or obtaining their consent. This would be in violation of the law and those who did it will be subject to severe penalties.