Show registration TIM registration of eleo electors tors Is now progress it Ife should be continued to law until each dwelling house in every precinct in the tory has been visited by the Stet ration officer appointed for the coun anty ty registration officers are appointed by the utah commission and take the place formerly occupied by the county assessors they have to procure the regist registration M lists hats of the previous yeat year and commencing on the first monday in may proceed in person or by deputy to visit every dwelling house in the precinct and make care ful inquiry if any person has died or removed from his precinct and if so 80 to erase his name from the list or whether any qualified voter resides therein whose name is not on the list and if so to add the same thereto precinct registration Officers who are deputies of the county registration officers are also appointed by the utah commission on the nomination of the so that the dorkof work of revision may be thoroughly done that no name may ommittee improperly on the registration list the object of the law and that of the utah commission as they announce is to secure a fair and impartial registration of the qualified electors of the territory the registration and revision lias has been going on for a week we hear orsome of some places in which it is said the registration cerbas announced that it is completed we do not think this has been done by any officer in this city the work is progress progressing lug it should be observed that a mere call at each house particularly if it be made at a time when the occupants are absent does not fill 1111 the purpose of the law nor the declared desire of the utah commission commissio each registration officer is re required to make diligent inquiry as well as to visit each house and the law does not limit the time of the revision to one week or two or three weeks Ever must be visited and diligent inquiry made only qualified electors can be lawfully regi registered sterea they are male citizens of the united states awen tyone ty one years of age and upwards who have resided ln in the precinct thirty days and in the territory six months next preceding the registration and who take the oath prescribed by the edmunds tucker law the sole dis qualifications of such citizens are thus set forth by the utah commission in their printed circular no polygamist b bigamist aalst or any person cohabiting wa with more than one woman shall to te entitled to register or vote at any election in this territory nor any pe person who has bas been convicted of the crime of incest unlawful cohabitation adultery fornication fornication bigamy or polygamy nor any person who associates or cohabits with per sons of the other sex nor can any person peron register or vote who has not taken and subscribed the oath prescribed re by ay the twenty fourth slee section of the act of congress of march 3 1887 nor can any woman register or vote the commission is of the opinion that the above specifications include all the disabilities to which electors are subject under the laws of congress and that no opinions which they may entertain upon questions of religion or church polity should be the subject of inquiry or exclusion of any elector this w will ial serve to answer inquiries which have been made concerning this matter A bigamist or polygamist under the law is one who now has more than one living woman whom he claims as his wife what he may have been at some former time does not count now the doctrine of once a polygamist always a polygamist sought to be imposed some years ago was dissipated by a ruling of the supreme court of the united states which settles the question tion as a legal proposition any person convicted of either of the above named offenses who has been pardoned by the president is absolve i from the prescribed disqualify disqualification cation if a citizen of the united states can and will take the registration oath it is the duty of the officer appointed to register him as a voter in the precinct in which he resi resides ldes A citizen of the united states is one born in the united states or who has been naturalized tb therein orein an alien may be naturalized by complying with the laws enacted for that purpose which provide as follows the applicant for naturalization must first make a declaration of his bis intentions to become a citizen this in utah must be done on oath before a district court or the supreme court of the territory or the clerk thereof it may be done at any time after arrival in this country but it must be two years at least before his admission mission al as a citizen next he must take an oath of allegiance to the constitution of the ansted states stales and of renunciation of all allegiance to any other sovereignty he must also make it appear to the satisfaction of the court that he be has resided in the united states live five years at least and is of good moral character this Is done dolia here by the testimony of t two citizens and he must WWI also make it appear that he Is attached to the principles odthe of the constitution of the united states and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same if he has never read that constitution and is not acquainted with the form of government in this republic he cannot make this appear to the satisfaction of the court therefore every applicant for naturalization should first make himself familiar with the principles of the constitution M for if he is not the court is morally and legally justified in rejecting his application any alien who has been honorably discharged from the army of the united states either regular or volunteer maybe may be naturalized without previous declaration of intentions and without proof of more than one years bearss Is residence previous to his application any alien who came to this country before he was eighteen years of age may be naturalized when he has resided here five years if he is twenty one years of age without previous declaration of intention the children of of citizens of the united states are citizens even if born outside of this country and the children of aliens if the parents were naturalized before the chil children dien were twenty one years of age are also citizens if they were residents of the united states at the time of the naturalization of their parents any alien woman who marries a citizen of the united states and who might herself become naturalized under the laws becomes a citi citizen by that marriage without any declaration of intention or admission to citizenship by a court it is to be presumed that every registration officer intends to comply with the laws relating to his duties there should he be a reciprocal feeling between him and the electors ejectors of his precinct arrangements may bd ba v made by which every qualified elector casi can secure regi registration strattin if any dra are missed the officer will doubtless arrange armage so that he can be registered we will freely publish the name and address addresser gr place of business of any registration officer furnished to us and who is willing for those electors who have not been registered at their homes to call upon him for that purpose the laws of the territory provide severe penalties against any election officer who neglects or refutes to perform his duty whereby any elector is ie deprived of his bis vote at an election the laws of the united states also provide that when under the laws of a state or territory au an officer or other person charged with the duty dufy of furnishing to citizens an opportunity to perform a prerequisite or qualification for voting refuses or know knowingly ingAy omits to perform this duty he shall forfeit to the aggrieved party the sum of five fl ve hu hundred n dollars the elective franchise is a sacred privilege and is and should be sacredly guarded by law it is the duty of all aliens who intend to reside in this country and claim the benefit and protection of its laws to become citizens of the united states at the earliest possible an legal date it is the duty of every citizen to exercise the powers rights and privileges of citizenship 7 the elective franchise is a privilege conferred upon the citizens by law the qualifications for its possession are prescribed by statute when those qualifications are held by any citizen he is in duty bound to exercise them for his own bene aft and the good of the community therefore every citizen possessing them under the laws of congress copers and of this territory should be duly registered and at election times cast his ballot for the measures and the men whom he desires to support at the polls neglect of this is a sin against society and a stab at the party to which the sluggish citizen belongs the peoples peopled party ought to be alive to its own interests during this registration and its active members and committees should work diligently until it is sure that every eligible person belonging to itis IN secure in his full qualifications during the week commencing on the first monday iri june electors who have not been registered may appear before the registration officer at his office and by taking the proper oath be registered and any elector who has moved from one precinct to another may have the needful change made on the registration list by appearing before the registration tr ion officer at any tune time before the filing of the lists which must take place by the first day of july at the latest but now io i the time for the regular revision n to be made and diligence is required so that it may be rendered as complete as possible and that the right of electors may be secure this is ii an important matter and we again urge it upon the attention of all who are interested in the maloW maintenance nance of bf citizens Is rights and of good government in the cities and the territory ot utah |