The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-09
CHA|RMANS
HAVE REAL WORK
Corrupt Practice and Regis
tratlon Acts Cause Poll
ticians Say.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 9.-Politi-
clans in Indiana, who are aspiring to
chairmanships, either state or county,
are being warned by the big political
leaders that the jobs are to be real
Jobs, and that when such places are
attained, the holders may expect not
only to give virtually their entire time
TO the duties, but that they will be put
to it to make the financial ends of the
campaign meet. The new registration
law, enacted by the recent general
assembly, and the corrupt practices
act enacted in the same session, are
the things that will give the chair
man much work to do.
Both the registration and the cor
rupt practices acts were passed to in
sure honest elections. Since, under
the former, no person will be permit
ted to cast a ballot in the general ell
ection who has not been properly
registered under the law, it will be-
hoove the county chairman of the
respective parties to see that every
voter eligible to registration is regis
tered in one of the sessions, and since
the law is new and not we'll under
stood, the work devolving on the
county chairman to see that all the
voters avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity to insure their voting rights
will require, it is now believed, vir-
tually all the time of such chairman.
! 1t will be the task of the state chair
man to work through the county and
subchairmen to see that all voters are
registered.
| The selection of the machinery for
| the registration sessions, and the Sc
lection of proper men for carrying on
the work, including the canvass of
precincts to urge registration of the
| voters, it is expected, will not only re-
lquire sharp campaign of education
May, but will require large force of
workers to see to it that the laggards
do not forget their duty.
The corrupt practices act, politi-
clans say, will present a serious prob
lem to state and county chairmen be-
cause it will operate to cut off great
deal of money formerly collected from
various sources for campaign expen-
ses. 1t will be up to the state and
county chairmen to make the most Of
the situation presented by the new
law, and to work out plans whereby
the increased amount of campaign
work may be done with the decreased
revenues Under the new law, it. is
held, corporations and individuals who
formerly contributed to both leading
parties expenses will be wary in their
gifts, and some of them will cut off
their contributions entirely, in order
to avoid the publicity sought to be
insured by the act.
The crop of aspirants for state chair
manships has not been lessened by
the situation, but it is declared that
both committees will use more care
than in the past in selecting their
chairmen. Formerly the state chair
manship might be filled by political
timber which would not suffice at all
under the new conditions, politicians
say.
Although number of counties are
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politicians to discuss the registration
and the corrupt practices acts in prep
aration for the campaign of next year,
no arrangements are under way, 1t is
declared, for an early meeting of eth
err the Democratic of the Republican
state committees. 1t is the plan to
Iacquaint the county workers with the
conditions of the new laws before the
state organizations are called togeth-
err to go over them.