The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-05-26
AN ELECTION ECHO

When a challenge is interposed,
then the would be voter is subject TO
examination under oath. If it IS
foun4 that he is not entitled to vote,
under the law, the challenge is sus-
talned and his vote is rejected. Upon
re other hand, if examination de-
tcrmines that the party is a legal
voter, duly qualified to vote at that
election, the challenge is denied and
The vote accepted.
The foregoing describes accurately
the course of procedure followed with
residents of North Morley Avenue
Addition. When challenged and was
developed that the would be voter re-
ided in that tract, the challenge was
;ustajned because he had resided in
the city but four months when the law
requires and stipulates six months
-e:sidence. 1t is true that some OF
them had resided in that tract for
years; but the tract was not a part
Of The city until four months ago;
and they were no more residents of
he city six months than if they had
come from Tucson or Phoenix four
months ago
One Of the curiosities Of, operation
cf the law is that of a. young lady
whose paternal home u.s., in /. another
part CT. the. city,. Within. four months
she has married and entered the home
of her husband who has resided upon
that tract a half score ;of. years. She
was permitted to vote without ques-
ton, because her continuing residence
in Nogales has exceeded six months,
while he was shut out. Yet he had
made his home in that same houae
some ten years, while she had but re-
Gently entered it. Perhaps she would
have been rejected undr a strict con-
struction of the law; but no challenge
was intea'posed. Maybe her vote
elected Middleton.
Publishing a list of voters who
were challenged or were not chal-:
lenged; who were accepted or reject
ed, as threatened by the Herald cuts
no figure. Were there anything il
legal in the transaction, and there are
a sufficient number of such j. voters,
the election can be overturned in the
courts. Why does not the Herald re-
sort to legal proceedings, instead of
publication?
That question is answered very
readily. A contest would not stand
before court of .aw any longer than
it would take to file and argue 3
demurrer. !7
Now there is another point that
the Herald made a great deal of fuss
over on eletion day: Rejection of
votes of wives of army officers who
(the wives) have resided in Nogales
a number of years.
There were two such cases. Young
women long resident in Nogales
whose husbands are serving in the
army, and whose homes are in other
states. They were challenged and
their votes rejected on the well known
legal ground that a wife's citizenship
follows that of her husband, and when
they married men who are, citizens of
other states they ceased to be citi-
zen's of Arizona, and of Nogales.
Had they married Canadians or Aus
tralians they would have ceased to be
of the United States. "The
Oasis" can cite young woman, born
in Nogales, who married a native of
Alamos, Sonora. The lady is no
longer an American citizen. She |
Knows it, and she does not try to
register or vote.
But, if the Herald is correct in it's
allegations, these are question for the
courts. Why don't the Non-Partisan
take them into court?