Show lORE CO IFIAJXTS ABOWP REGISTRATION REGIS-TRATION We continue to hear complaints that the work of registering the voters of this city and county has neither been thorough nor satisfactory Thursday two of the registrars were in attendance upon the McKinley Mc-Kinley convention at Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant They have no business absenting themselves from this city during the time that is designated by the statutes for registering voters They are paid out of the public funds to do public I work and not to be running around attending political conventions The conviction is growing that there I is something more than pure accident in the neglect to register ao many voters vot-ers We are fully aware that when voters vot-ers are not registered they are very quick to lay all the blame upon the registrars when they themselves maybe may-be as much or more to blame than those whose duty it Is to register them but when registrars during the last registration regis-tration week go away from the city and county to attend political conventions conven-tions people are justified in blaming them with wilful neglect of duty and voters who are not registered through such neglect have just grounds of complaint We know what the duty of the precinct committees in the premises prem-ises is It is to make a thorough thor-ough canvass of their precincts ascertain who are registered and who are not and make a complete list of those who have not been registered and then on the 13th and 17th of October Oc-tober when the registrars must be at their offices abe that those who nave not been registered are registered In this way the very bad work of the registrars reg-istrars can be rectified but in no other |