Show THE WORK HAS BEGUN THE registration of voters and the revision of the lists preparatory to the municipal election in february next commenced nov 4 it is to be presumed that the officers appointed to perform this duty will be impartial thorough and diligent so that the people of this city may depend upon the expurgation from the lists of the names dames of all persons who have died or removed or who have in any other way become disqualified from voting and the placing upon the lists of the names of all persons in the respective precincts who are legally qualified to vote we hope the facts will prove to be in accordance with this presumption every male citizen over twenty one years of age who has resided in in this territory six months and in the precinct where he lives at present one month before registration and who can take the oath prescribed in relation to offenses under the ed munds tucker act Is entitled to register and vote it is the duty of the registration officers to use due diligence to the end that all such persons shall be duly registered it is also the duty of every good citizen to assist in the carrying out of the laws re relating larIng to registration and election for the purpose of protecting resident citizens in their rights securing a full and conert registration and a free and fair election therefore the names ot of persons sons who have died or removed from the respective city precincts should be furnished to the registration officers so that they may not have it to 3 1 say they were not informed as to the facts also if persons attempt to register who are not lawfully entitled t to do bothe so the registration officers should be posted concerning them 5 no one should attempt to register who cannot in good faith take the oath prescribed by act of congress residence in this city and territory must be bona fide it DIA matters aters not where a citizen haa previously resided tha cuts no i wf w r s straw SJ t a aji gj i figure in the registration there is nothing about that in the law either local or national it is the present status and residence of the citizen that are material there are many pe ferons rons who have recently come into this city fr from am places outside of the territory it is believed and with good reason th that at so some me of these intend to register and vote at the coming election every one of them is liable to criminal prosecution pros elution ec ution and every person official or otherwise who aids and aleas or induces them to register illegally to is liable to a thousand dollars fine and a years imprisonment there are others who have resided in the territory the prescribed time and who have come here from mining camps and other places for a temporary sojourn and who have no intention after their board bills are paid by certain parties and the election is over to remain here as residents and who are not really residents but only visitors today they have no right to register and in attempting to do so will expose themselves to the danger of a similar penalty but men who have resided here for the statutory period and whose intention is to live here whose residence is actual not a sham if they can take the prescribed oath have a legal and moral right to register and vote no matter where they formerly resided and it it nob odys business where they came from or what may be their creed or politics or party there should be nothing done in this campaign that will tend to vitiate the election either party will have cause to regret connection with illegal acts the struggle should be conducted within the lines of the jaw we are satisfied that the peoples peopled party managers intend to do everything that is legal and right in order to maintain the control of municipal affairs in the interest of honesty economy and consistent progress and to countenance nothing that is illegitimate fraudulent and wrong we wish we could say the same for their opponents with gitil similar confidence As the registration has commenced all dih diligence gence should be exercised by the active members of the Peo peopled pleIs party to have every voting citizens citizen name of their party on the registration list before the registration closes also to see that false registration is not successful every came of anew a new arrival in the territory Terr 7 who attempts to register should be reported to the central committee who will endeavor to make it interesting for him all the club officers and their aids should be alive and awake and active and every mau man who desires the welfare of the city and the perpetuation pe r petua tion of good governments government and who being able to register has not done so before should now step forward and come to the help of his friends and of the cause and cast his vote and influence where it is needed the neutrality of such individuals divi duals might prove fatal to that cause and place the responsibility for it on their dilatory souls let us have a com complete p lete thorough fair and legal registration |