Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-24
A PUERILE ATTACK on A GREAT LAW


which contrary fact and of which carries the ghost
of a
He asserts first present dscrmnates against
country districts favor of the cities second that other state
registration Georgas; third that through the
effect of upwards thousand white citizens
have been dbared from the right vote in the elections TINS
year The registration figures the county tax collectors
books which there be dispute or the other
drov the first and the of these statements the second adj
mts reutaton for contains argument Let US briefly
examine each of them.
charges that might be against the regis
inherently absurd than the
charge against country in favor of
the that keep the farmers from voting
The pure election law of which the registration clause most
essential part is the work of the reform the ad
ministraon that defeated In the election of that
year the city counties-Chatham Bib and Fultonhat
furnished over half OF the majority whereby the present
enabled the motive there then for
the reform administration put through law that would in
the by which had been beaten and cut down
the country vote from which received its strongest support
The fact that the registration passed keep
illegal away polls thereby giving every legal
ballot its due The purhasbe naturally centers
cities 1t is floating element made of persons whose resi-
denee as shifting as their conscience who are here TODAY and
yonder tomorrow who really citizens of Georgia This
and not the farmer whose home fixed the illegal vote which
the election law aims exclude and does exclude.
Beyond such considerations however above any chance
for debate stand the registration figures themselves proving that
in the present year. result of the law, white
ton has increased country counties In Berren county for
instance there registered thousand three hundred and
twent white this than registered two
years ago. In Sreven county this years registration shows
increase OF seven hundred and sx the registration for
1908 before the law became operative In Engham the
increase is five hundred eighy-one Colqutt five
hundred.
On the other hand only city any
registration
dred and fyeght Baldwin with fortyhree and Doughery
with hundred and These three
and of these Baldwin and Doughery might placed
try column All the other city counties show decrease
tration.
Then what ground Governor pretend
registration law has Disseminated against
the country district To be he the purely
municipal elections the taking of
only week ten days before
city ordinance designed peculiar city what has
this to do with GeOrgas pure election gov
and state house officers does
that people Beren county are being against
simply because the city of Atlanta deciding keeps
ne city registration list until eleven days before the cleo
toni Between these much logical
connection as there is between a and a
The second assertion which Brown bases his
to repeal the important of registration
law doubtless true within itself He Georgia
only state which has registration law Of this particular kind
He might have further added state pro-
dues such luscious peaches does Georgia
produced epic like Astyanax and noe
like that to the dogwood blossom illusions would have
been just pertinent the he really made In Arkansas he
explains registration at all is REQUIRED In Nevada he n
out the books closed few days before
o. Nevada! The governor might have enivened his mes
sage by mentioning the big fight that's be pulled off
July the Fourth Would he have Georgia away forms
OF registration just because Arkansas hast He
the legislature to bid for the prize fight Nevada has got
it. And just logically urge that the limit between
the close of the registration books and the be
reduced to thirty days Georgia points ont the
interim is but thirty days in Louisiana.
'iSi s a as the 9'0vas that s. s:''. ss s.sss
. sa s' sSs a hi
foreigners there
Thousand
He then specuaes that during the past popua
ton has increased twenty cent that having
increase during the preceding decade
ne reaches the conclusion that there Georgia
three hundred and wentynne thousand five hundred
seventysix white males' he Having worked
out this problem the deduets from its
reported be the total white registration this wear and
therupon announces that upward of hundred
white citizens dbared from the right the elections
this year.
surprising that with such method he got
Instead back the of
then still further back the rate of population increase since
twenty years let straight the
what the registration figures for present year
Then by comparing these figures with those for the year