Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-08
MAY HAVE TO POSTPONE
REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES
Demand Made for Registra.
ton Thirty Days Before
Election of Delegates.

The colored republicans of the District
through II. A. Clarke. chairman of the
Republican Interstate League, have filed a
protest against the manner in which it is
announced the republican registration
and primaries for the election of dele
gates to the republican national conven-
ton will be conducted. In this protest
Mr.. Clarke calls on the subcommittee to
require the registration Of all voters
thirty days prior to the holding Of the
primary election, the reason given being
the desire to prevent fraud and thus
avoid the necessity of petition.ng the ma
tional committee or the convention to
declare that no election was held.
Official Call for Primaries.
The official call for the republican pri-
maries. ISSUED yesterday, fixes the date
for holding the election February 10,
1872. If the plan for registration thirty
days in advance of the election carries.
the date of the primaries will have to be
postponed. The official call provides for
registration of name. address, ETC., of
voters Immediately before casting the
vote, the precinct election boards to be
also boards of registration empowered to
QcClOe as 10 the right VI WOulu-Dc tOlcTS
to cast their ballots.
The protest sets forth that the late
Robert Reyburn, republican national com.
mitteeman for the District of Columbia.
offered a resolution at the meeting of the
republican national committee in Decem-
Der, 1907. providing for thirty days regis
tratiOn of the voters in the District prior
to the election of republican delegate
and alternates, which was approved By
q ho committee
is still in foic and effect. as it has
neither been amended nor repealed. The
following statemenc in regard to the last
election was made by Mr.. Clarke:
cat the last election the polls were
open from II o'clock noon to PIN In
six hours voting in five districts. with
one voting booth in the nineteenth, twen-
tieth twenty-tirst and twenty-second dis
I lets, each, ara ihree votins oootns 1.
the first district, which embraces the sub
urbs east of Lincoln avenue, total OF
1916 votes were polled out OF a grand
total of 1899 votes in the whole city, for
the Bieber- Flather-Horner ticket.
How They Voted.
From this statement OF facts 1t is
plain that the remaining seventeen dis
tricts. which included the most thickly
| inhabitated part of the District of Co
lumbia and a majority OF the colored
! people who constitute the Duik or the re-
republican residents of the District. only
polled SOB votes for the Bieber-Flather-
| Homer ticket. OF the seventeen districts,
one polled S57 votes, one t23. one 5:sv one
4is, one 449 and one 400 votes, or total
of 1861 votes. The total vote in eleven
districts out Of twenty-five districts was
11.277 out Of grand total for the whole
city of 1889 The remaining eleven dis
tricts only gave the Decentralization
ner ticket 1852 votes. an average of 151
votes to the district.
"A minute analysis of the vote in the
tabulated districts will show what hap
pened here four years ago. Six hours
| voting is equivalent to 1.S19 votes an
hour: 1910 votes an hour Is equivalent
to about - per minute. In addition
| thereto the board of judges in each
i tration record, in which had to be en-
/ tered the name Of the voter, and thu
street and number Of his residence. A