St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-05-20

which lifted it in the center and,
caused it to give away. The.
damage was light.
call at my office during the after
noon MAY 81, with lists of namass
duly canvassed and found to have
been fraudulently and illegally
registered. | then explained tb
the gentlemen that had decided
that the afidavits and lists MUS
| be filed in manner which Woula
show separately the names OF
those who should be erased be
cause of removals from the.
names of those who should be
erased because of their having
been registered fraudulently and
Illegally. In order. to inform him
fully and facilitate his work, /
gave him copies Of the forms of
these separate affidavits. | con
lsidered such separation necest
sary, for the reason that in q
period of two and a half years.
| it is possible for thousands OF our
best citizens to have moved fron1
one place to another, and equally
possible for them to have failed
to call at the registration office
to have a notation made OF such
changes, or to secure new certls
icates as the law directs and for
| that reason it would be worse
than unfair to have their names
published in the official journal Of !
the parish as having been regist
tered fraudulently and illegally
DID. NOT SUBMIT LIST or
FRAUDULENT VOTERS.
That afternoon, the represent
tative called with the canvasserst
They submitted a list Of 2S2
names from five Of the precinctA
of the second ward to be erased
by reason of removal. They ex
planned that they were going
over the lists of those whom they
| had to submit as being registered
fraudulently and illegally and
would have them ready within
the next two or three days.
They made afidayits to the lists
of removals they submitted and
I caused the names to be pub
lished in the official journal as
I the law directs. In the mean
time, / have not received the
| lists promised of the names of
those alleged to have been regis
tered fraudulently and illegally.
AS a reuslt of the publication
of the 288 names submitted by
the canvassers, there have been
erased from the registration rolls
246 names, because of those per-
sons having failed to come for-
ward as the law directs with the
afidavits of two bona fide citi-
lzens to establish that their
names should not be erased;
tWenty-three persons reported by
| the canvassers as having re-
moved furnished the affidavits
required to establish that they
still reside in the same places
from which they registered;
there were sixteen names of per-
sons and residences handed in by
the canvassers that do not ap-
pear on the registration rolls and
three who still reside in the same
precinct but have changed their
residence.
/ realize the ps ssibility that,
among the 246 names that have
been erased, there may be per-
sons who through mandanus pro-
ceedings could compel me to re-
store their names to the rolls.
There may be persons who failed
to see or learn of the publication
in the official journal, who could
establish that they actually re-
side at those addresses still, or
who have not moved into their
new homes the required six
months to establish their citizen
ship in the precincts to which
they have moved; still, because
of their having failed to come
forward to establish their right
to remain upon the rolls, ] feel
that I was compelled by the pro-
visions of Section 9 of the regis
tration act to erase them as
have done.
BARRY'S ALLEGED PATRI-
OTISM.
In order that there may be a
clearer understanding of the
effect of these erasurers, itshould
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