The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1911-07-21

nc Qu6i1llCaIsOu III vOS0l ~ suO
coming primary is to be enforced
this year, without fear OF favor.
E .ch candidate for United States
Senator has a chosen representative
on the county board of election COM
missioners and every commissioner
in the State must take an oath to
support the laws and the c0nstitu.
ton and to do their duty. That
none of then will shirk their sworn
duty, may be accepted rs a fact.
The voter and his qualifications,
is something that is being talked OF
from one end of tho state to the
other. There are qualifications as
well as disqualifications.
What are the qualifications of .
voter, and what Are the Disqualified
tons? All persons must have GER
tain qualifications, set even with
these qualifications there are some
things that disqualify one other
wise qualified.
No person shall be eligible to
vote at this election unless, First, he
be qualified to vote in the regular
election to be held on the first Tues
day after the first Monday of Novem.
Der, next; Second, intends to sup
port the persons nominated, and has
been in accord with the Democratic
party within the two preceding
years and, Third, is not excluded
from voting, in such primary. by
any regulation of the Democratic
State Executive Committe.
What are the qualifications to
vote in the regular election to be
held on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday of November, next? ~
Every male inhabltant of this
State, except IDIOTS, insane person
and Indians, who is a citizen Of the
United States, twenty-one years of
age, and upward, and who has been
a resident in the State two years,
one year in the elecrion district or
in the incorporated city or town in
which he offers to vote, has been
duly registered as required by law,
for four months, or more prior to
November 7tb, 1911, and who has
paid, on or before the first day of
February. 1911, all taxes which
may have been legally required of
Ian, and which he has had an OPP
portunity of paying according to
law. for the tive preceding years,
that Is the years 1909 and 1910,
winch includes his Ia,ll tax, if liable
e~aerefor, whether BIZ has been as
asscs eth asaebby ass' c~a hz tkha
TO vote at the Tesyular esection to bsI
held in November. unless such per-
son has been convicted of bribery,
burglary, theft, arson, obtaining
money or good under false pretenses,
pei ury. forgery, embezzlement, or
bigamy, in which event he cannot
vote at said election, though other
wise qualified.
If a person, registered in IN eloc-
ton or incorporated town OF city,
his residence into another
district or town, and has not been
there one year, he cannot vote in the
old district or town because he is
not a residence therein, and cannot
vote in the district or town into
he has changed his residence
because he has not resided there one
year.
The Constitution itself provides
hat a poe tax of two dollars is i'm
POSED On every male inhabitant of
his State between the ages Of II
mp 60 years, except persons who
re deaf and dumb or blind, or who
re manned by loss of hand or fOot.
This tax is imposed BY the Con
titution and, according to the ruiz
ng of the Attorney General, It is
OF necessary that it should b .
essd by the county assessor inf
to make one liable thprefof. t
Being qualified to vote at the !
ocular election to be held in Nov 4
nber before be can vote In the Il
election he must, First:
atend to support the persons nomi- q
ated in the primary, and have been 8
accord with tho Democratic i
lrty within the two rreceedingIf
'ars; and, second: Be not excludsdf,
ON voting by any regulation Of q
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