The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
DUTY To PARTY To
REGISTER TUESDAY
Americans Should Be Pre-
pared for Important Fight
at Coming Primary.

Thirteen thousand persons who voted
at tho liquor election In salt Lake last
June must rc-registcr next Tuesday IN
order 10 vote at the primary election on
October -. Conservative estimates are
taat so 10 as per cent OF these voters are
Americans. II these persons do not re-
register next Tuesday they viii lose the
right TO vote for the American nominees
at the coming primary.
Many Of these persons are under Inc
Impression that having voted at the
liquor election they are entitled TO vote
81 the coming election without again
registering. This Is n false impression
The liquor election was n special election
and the names Of those who voted at
that time are not on the general regis
ter unless those persons also voted at
the preceding city or general election.
Unless these persons VIII rc-reSlster
ON the next registration day, which is
neSt Tuesday. the Americans Will enter
the fight AT the coming primary under
a scrious handicap. Unless every voter
takes Il upon himself TO register next
Tuesday and 10 vote at the primary cleo
tlou one week from that date there Is
serious danger that the persons chosen 10
BE- the candidates for office at the COM
ing city election will not represent the
American sentiment Of tho community.
Primary Is Important.
The only hard fight the American party
Mill have this fall Is at the primary cleo
lion. With many and varied tickets IN
the field and with many independent
candidates IN tho running. II Is the duty
nf the Americans To help the party WIN
by voting at the primary. There Is no
doubt but that a majority OF the people
OF Salt Lake wish 10 see the American
party win both at the primary and at
the general city election, II the Amcri-
can party does not win it VIII be because
of the failure Of tho American voters To
register and vote at the primary cleo
Z n
campaign will come. II the American
party wins and every American candidate
is nominated al the primary election IT.
is certain that tho American party Will
sweep the city at the municipal cleo
tlon
The registration lists have been made
up from the voting lists of The nunicl-
pal and general elections The pre-
sumption Is that every person who voted
AT IN. last municipal election and at INC
last general election has his name ON the
from the district In which he then voted
he is entitled 10 vote without the nccos-
sity of re-registering. II Inc has moved
~ Is necessary for him TO secure d trans
fer from the registration agent oi the
district in which he pre- giously voted or
TO register anew I'm the distict OF which
ne IS now a resident.
Errors by the copylyts who pi prGi
table and ii should be almost imperative
not only for all those whose names arc
not on the registration lists 10 register
hut that all voters examine the lists 10
ascertain positively that the names are
on those lists.
Next Tuesday is the only day for reg
istratIon prior to the primary election.
There is a registration two weeks later
for the city election, but no further reg
IstraLion days for the primary election.
The American party city organization
will do everything In its power To assist
the voters in reaching the registration
places next Tuesday but there are So
many unregistered voters In the city
that IL will be impossible for the Ameri
can organizati ton to look after all OF tho
American voters Unless each voter
takes IL upon himself to ascertain posi-
lively that his name is on the registra
tion lists il is certain that "A great many
Americans will be barred from voting at
the primary election. the election FOR
which their party most needs their votes,