Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-02
ORGANIZATION VOTERS
, BEGGED TO REGISTER
|! BYDESPERATEC CHIEFS
Republican Leaders Take Ad-
vantage of Changed Law,
Showing Weakness, Say In
dependent Campaignerg
REFoRMERs CONFIDENT

The Republican Organization today IL
comhlnR every division In the city for
Organization followers whose names are
on the assessors 3 lists, but who have not
registered. in an effort TO get them all
qualified to register before 3 o'clock to-
night .t r-
The frantic Efforts 20 find a few more
voters were watched with satisfaction by
the leaders OF the Independent campaign.
as the Independents saw In the mint Tor
votes an open admission OF the weakness
OF the Organization and It's fear OF over
wheiming independent strength.
Many independent voters themselves
took advantage Of the trick by which the
ORGANIZATION planned to register several
thousand OF its followers at the last
minute. and went to the tax office, at
City Hall, and obtained poll tax receipts.
A steady stream Of electors, whose
names are on the assessors lists. but who
did not register on September 2, or ii,
because they had no tax receipts, filed
into the tax office in City Hall all day
TO obtain tax receipts so they could petit
tion the Board Of Registration Commits
sloners TO place their names on the reg
istration lists.
Both the Organization and the indie
pendants were represented in the long
line, and by the middle OF the afternoon
II was estimated that 1000 electors had
paid their poll tax. +.r
belated registration are made possible by
change in the election law by the last
legislature.
Independent leaders today called atten-
tion to the fact that although the Organ
fzation leaders, when they announced
their plan and pleaded for an additional
5000 registration, had in mind only the
Organization vote-the change In the law
applies to every elector-and that anti
Organization electors can also register
under the plan.
Electors who failed to register on any OF
the three registration days this fall,
whether they were in Philadelphia and in
good health on those days or not, can.
have their names placed on the registra-
tion lists under the amended law The
only requirement is that the elector has
not paid tax for two years before Mo-
vember.2. 1915.
Payment of a poll tax must be made in
City Hall before o'clock tonight. The
Organization has arranged to keep the
tax office open until that hour tonight.
A pink petition" provided for by the
amended law, can be obtained from the
Board of Registration Commissioners at
any time before October 13. 1t must be
filled out. sworn or affirmed to, and filed
with the Registration Commissioners be-
fore October 49, as the law requires the
Commissioners to act upon the petition,
oP tha. day. which is just 20 days before
election
The change in the law that makes reg
istration so easy, Is contained in the
pamphlet laws of Pennsylvania. 1915, act
4S7, amending Sections 10 and IS of Reg
istration in First-class Cities, July "a,
1913, page 1890 under the subhead: Filling
of Petition and Payment of Taxes"
The information required to be re-
corded in the register" as stated in the
form OF the pink petition" prepared by
the Board of Registration Commission
ers of philadelphia, is simply a state
gment TO the effect that the petitioner has
paid no State or county tax between
November q 1913, and September II, 1915.
The only other Information he must give
concerns his place of residence and the
length Of time he has resided in his
division.