Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-30
COURT BUSY HEARING
ELECTION APPEALS
Over 200 Voters Seek Restoration
Of Names to Books.
WOULD PURGE ONE LIST.
Writ Of Mandamus Issued in Case o.
First Precinct Of Third District,
Returnable Tomorrow.

With something like two hundred
registration app ,als TO pass upon, and
determine whether the voters whose
names are involved shall be permit
ted to vote in Tuesdays election, OF
whether their names will remain
stricken from the lists in accordance
with the action Of registration Off
cials, and writs of mandamus in 1O2
other cases involving alleged illegal.
ly registered voters TO be taken up
tomorrow, the Circuit Court has its
hands full for the remaining DAYS of
this week. and it is likely that all of
the actions will not be disposed of
until Monday
Owing to these appeals, Judge
BIashears announced upon adjourn
ment of Court yesterday afternoon
that the regular Court business will
be laid aside, pending action on the
registration appeals, and mandamus
cases. Action of the boards of reg
istrars in the several precincts of the
city and county has been questioned
through the usual form OF petitions
filed by representatives of both the
Democratic and Republican parties,
although majority of the petitions
were filed by the Republicans.
Immediately upon convening Court
this morning, Judge Brashears began
hearings IN the various appeals.
A number of Annapolis cases was
among tn Jse taken up in course of the
day, and as a result some of the pc
tiions were dismissed, for the reason
that the petitioners failed to appear
in Court others were dismissed be-
cause there was not substantial evil
dence to show that they are qualified
to vote in the precincts concerned,
while in still other instances the
Court ordered names in question
placed on the registration books.
An interesting question had be IN
raised in connection with the names
of those voters living on jefferson
street, in the western section Of the
city on account of the litigation that
has been in the Courts for a long
time, and upon which final decree
has never been rendered. This is the
question as to the western boundary
line of the city, which, it has been
held, passes practically through the
centre of Jefferson street, This
would mean that those voters resid-
ing on the west side of the street
should be registered in the Second
district, while those OF the east side
would still be qualified to vote in the
city.
1t developed as a result OF the re-
cent revision of the registration lists
that a number of voters on the west
side of that thoroughfare were
stricken from the registration books
for the This ward. Ibis matter has
since been Strengthened out, however,
under the pending legal action, and
those voters of the west side of the
street who had not elected to regis
ter in the Second district, will be
permitted to vote in the city, as for
merly.
BY mandamus proceedings the Cir
cult Court was asked to intervene to
secure q purgiug of the list of regis
tered voters in the upper precinct of
the Third district The action, which
grew out of the refusal of the Demo-
cratic registration judge to agree
with his Republican collie agues and
strike the suspected names from the
books, was brought by Attorney w.
Hallam Claude, late yesterday. Re-
publicans, it is said, are behind the
move.
Judge Brashears signed an order
granting a temporary writ return
able on Friday.
The Board of Election Supervi-
sors and Albert Schnell and Nelson
A. Stinchcomb, Democrat and Repub-
lican registration officials, respec-
lively, are named as defendants A
total of l02 names are involved, some
of which, it is alleged. are of persons
now dead and others are fictitious or
lille gal for other causes. 1t is elaine d
that at least S5 names that have been
carried on the books for years are Of