The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-08-23
HER VOTERS REGISTERED,
JENNINGS HOWLS FRAUD"
Not Willing to Grant to Voters of
Western Side of Parish Privileges
Accorded of Jennings.

For the past few issues our esteemed
contemporary, the Jennings Times
g Record has been publishing number
e Of heavy headed front page articles,
accusing the Registrar or his deputies
OF perpetrating every fraud in the
catalogue in the registration of voters
e in the western half of the parish.
: This howl of fraud in registration
comes with especially bad grace from
t Jennings, coming as it does before
q the stencil of their recent ballot box
e stuffing experience has had time to die
D out of the publC's nOstris. The
Q people OF the parish have not yet fOf-
! gotten that it was only through the
efforts of the best talent of the parish
: and the presence of q number OF the
n leading citizens Of Jennings ~ the
parish seat for some considerable
: time, that Somebody from Jennings
s was saved from gong to the pen for
election frauds. The further fact that
q Jennings seems to be endeavoring to
q push this same bunch of men forward
4 into places of trust and opportunity
for fraud in the coming election does
. not materially add to the influence
which anv such howl as Jennings is
- putting up will have on the public
Charges against the Good Govern
- ment League would perhaps have
! more weight if they came from o
locality that had not ALWAYS been
-, hostile to the Good Government
League, as was especially demonstrate
:, ed when Jennings gave but EIGHTY
SEVEN votes for Good Government
:. League candidate Hall, and THREE
HUNDRED and TWENTY-FIVE
; votes against him.
Again at this particular time this
50 howl of "Th;et. Thief!' would come
with a good deal better grace, il the
registrar had not devoted two full
DAYS Of his time to registering the
voters Of the Jennings precinct, which
is as much as was allotted to the
the registration Of four times that
number of precincts in the western
side of the parish.
Itwould come with better grace il
Hon. J. G. Modesette, Hon. Judge
Harris, ard number Of other leading
men of Jennings had not openly and
repeatedly assested that Every white
man should be permitted to register
and vote" and if during the two days
that Mr.. Pitre was registering in
jennings, every sort of candidate that
had any possible show of registering
was not registered.
while the writer of the articles in
the Times Record evidently Forgot
to sign his name to them, we will have
10 conclude that he was informed of
what was going on while the registrar
was in Jennings. when be says, "Men
are registered who make up their reg
istratiOn blanks under the educational
clause, outside of the building in
which the registration was taking
place, referring to the western part OF
the parish. does he not know that men
we're registered In JENNINGS, whose
registration blanks under the educa-
tional clause were made up In rooms
down stairs, while the registration was
being carried on in an upstairs room:
Does he not know that at Raymond
punches of JENNINGS men took thei,
prospective voters out into the barn
ward and assisted them to make ou
their application blanks under the
educational clause. Does the writer
of the articles referred to above no
know that there were registered in th'
eastern side of the parish, bows WHIT
would not be q. until after at leas
two elections would be held in thi
parish? Is he not aware that after on
man bv the name of Rima had sough
to register under the property clause
and had failed to show that he hst
~ the necessary property, and had the,
"a spent about an hour irving to registe
under TIE Educational clause, and hat
been utterly unabeto accomplish tina
feat, that he was brought in the thir'
time and presented to the registrar TO
registration under the plea that b.
was BLIND bv one OF jennings lead
ing attornies, and was registered undo
that plea, although his blindness wa
of so sudden an origin that his neigh
bors knew nothing of it. Is the write
not aware that this same atsorne
sought to have one Hayden registere
at Elton. who admittedly would nc
be in the state the required two year
until NEXT JANUARY, and was onl
prevented from doing so by the prt
tests of a GOOD GOVERNMENT
LEAGUE man from welsh.
The facts of the case are that tn
registration was being conducted in
very equable manner as long As 1t wa