The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-10-06
WORK HARD
To GARNER
LAST VOTE
Believed Monday Will Show
Great Majority Of Voters
Registered
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INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 6. - Reports
received at the political headquar-
ters in Indianapolis indicate that
the registration of voters which viii
close with the session Of the pre-
cinct boards Monday. will be much
heavier than was expected after the
hrst registration day. Sept. 9.
During the last three weeks the
Republican organization throughout
Indiana has been unusually active
in registration work. and in many
counties already 100 FER cent or the
party voters have been registered
b ynota-ies and party workers In
some sections. especially in the part
OF the state which are normally
Democratic. that party has exerted
effort to swell the total registra-
t,on.
Less than 30 per cent Of the elect
crs who registered in 1920 had their
rames on the lists as qualified vot-
ers Sept. 9. At that time there was
extreme apathy on the part or the
political organizations and on the
part Of the public because OF the
hot weather which preceded that
registration.
II is estimated that the registra-
tton afidavits now in the hands OF
the county political organizations
ready for filing with the precinct
boards Monday will total about 500
600. This will bring the total reg
t.tration up 10 about 100000
As the registration this year is
permanent it Is expected that
e-oodly percentage of the electo
who have not been approached oy
polittcal workers will so voluntarily
70 the polls Monday and place their
names on the lists. There is no way
~ determining how many voters
~ili do this. but the political lead
crs here believe that the number
Of voluntary registrarts VIII pc
large.
one OF the unique features OF the
campaign is the efforts the hepup-
lican nization Is now making
20 put B-own county, tradluonally
Democratic. in the G. o. P column.
For the first time in the history Oh
the Republican organization the
campaign is being pushed into tnat
county.
The time has arrived for those
who are Intimately connected Win
nolitical activities to begin naming
the plurality figures. OF course the
,ronression has been current through
ou, the campaign that the Repuoh-
20, state ticket will win, but earh-
.r IN the season the wise ones were
not talking in figures. Now there
,.A,,s 70 be fondness for 100000
This Ia +he figure which is generally
heard in estimates Of the p4urallrS
for Albert J. Beveridge. Republican
nominee for United States senator
and for the election OF the state
ticket. While there Is really noth-
ing substantial on which TO pase
an estimate Of this sort. yet the
very fact that IL is being talked SO
,.ne-ally is conclusive that the
swing Of the tide is in favor OF re-
r,,blicanism in the campaign
In The landslide Of 1920 the repub-
,,cans carried the third district by
only 2.1I4 votes. In 1918 the dis
trict was carried by the republicans
nv 5s7 votes. An investigation OF
that district during the last Few
days shows the republicans optimis-
tic and confident.
Beveridge carried the republican
hammer through the third district
last week. making four speeches
Each of those meetings were attend
ed by large crowds. the one at New
Albany being declared by local per-
sons as one of the largest political
ratherings ever held in that city.
If the trend in this district can
be accepted as a criterion of the
political condition of the state 1t
anpears that the estimates of 1Oo.o
nlurality for the republican ticket
In the state is not far off.