The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-12
POLITICIANS KEEP BUSY
Hand in Names of Slow Voters in Order
TO Save Trouble Of Issuing affidavits
to Get Them to Vote - New Bat
for Voting Machines.

With the national, state and county
elections just four weeks away there
was no frantic effort on the part of
Kenosha people to register at the first
registration day today and the regis
tration places showed no frenzied inter
lest in the coming elections. In fact,
lat many Of the ward registration places
less than a dozen people called during
the morning to have their names placed
lon the rolls of the voters. This does
mot mean that the men in charge of
the registration were not busy. They
kept busy copying in names of voters
who had appeared at the primaries in
lSeptember and in keeping with the pro-
visions of the law lot of names found
their way to the poll lists regardless
pof the fact that the people were nowhere
near the polls. The first registration
day offered chance for the men seek
ing office to see to it that people who
usually forget to register and often for
get to vote were placed on the registra-
ton lists. Some of the candidates
themselves brought in long lists of
names and turned them over to some
member of the board who was able to
say that he was personally acquainted
with the voters and knew them to live
in the election precincts. The candidates
figure that this activity will be very
important on election day as the regis
Itration of these men even without their
knowledge will make it lot easier to
get them to vote There are a lot of
men who absolutely refuse to vote on an
affidavit and this registration will make
1T possible to get these fellows to the
polls. On the north side Of the city
there was more interest shown in the
registration than on the south side 1t
is held that this was due to the large
German population of the north side.
The Germans all over the country are
taking an especial interest in the cleo
tion this year.
Guesses are being made on what the
registration will show Tt is thought
that more than $500 votes will be cast
in Kenosha county this year. This will
be close to two thousand more than was
east at the last general election.
There is no registration of voters out
in the rural districts of the county and
it is not expected that in these districts
the vote will be much larger than it was
four years ago. Since the last general
election the city has gobbled up a lot
of populous territory which was former
ly part of the towns of Pleasant Prairie
and Somers. The. city is expected to
have no less than five thousand regis
tered voters.
Tne last registration day comes three
weeks from today but at that time
the men in charge of the registration
places will not be empowered to write
I'm names and any one who wants to be
added to the list of voters must appear
in person.
Attorney General Walter Owen at
Madison on Monday handed down an
other decision against the use of voting
machines at the coming election. This
was for the election commission of
milwaukee county. In the decision he
held that the machine could not be used
On account of the fact that it was
impossible to vote all issues of the cleo
ton on them. In this same opinion he
held that the county election commission
an that county rather than the city
election commission should decide how
the ballot was to be cast. This same
holding would give the county clerk the
right to decide in counties like Kenosha
county.