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Show SURPRISES COMiNb' I OH ELECTION DAY Heavy Registration Seems to Forecast Unexpected Results. Veaterday's registration for Tue:iy"s election was far and away beyond all ex- i neotatlons. One estimate was that 13.000 j voters registered dvirlng the day. Republicans said lasi night tha; I c I registration was swollen by persons Indignant In-dignant at the appeal of the president for Democratic votes. lVmorrab s.ud that tlw registrants were otera whose ire had been aroused ' by Theodore Koosevelt's attArk on the ! president. One or the other group of explainers' will be in a position next Tuesday night 1 to say. l i old you so. j In many of the districts the blanks for1 registration, oaths were exhausted earlv In the day and the O. . was being sent In freouentlv lo the count v flerk office. Before the day wns done the office whs answering thai no more were to be had. The 'registrars then had recourse to the use of one blank for swearing and blank pieces of paper for the signatures of the registrants. In . one district forty-five registrants were taken care of In this manner. The day ended w it h inmn reglat rars tli-ed beyond all expectations. Moth iMmocratlc and Uepuhllcnn workers work-ers were busy prodding dellnuuent voters, but most of t hose who registered sought tha places of their own Initiative, hut not of t heir own information as to location. Kvery county office and many of the city offices were besieged yesterday with telephone calls for Information as to the proper puce to register for persons living at various addresses. When a iVmocrat answered a call for Information he reported tJmt the person Inquiring confessed to determination to vote I he I Vmocrn t lc t icket for t he first time In his life. When a Republican answered an-swered he reported that the information seeker dcclaro-l the intention of v ottng the Republican ticket the rest of Ma A t anv rale, the campaicnless. Infbi- iMi7,;i-rl(lilfn alaotlon to b lirhl In Nlt tvko nnd 1'tnh nfvt Tu(4y pnimtm 10 ba mora ti-uso w Interval thn anyone ill rlllii'r tin- I n-nnvrnll.' or tlo UoiiiiMI-- UoiiiiMI-- an noadquartara anUotpattd, Tha un xpoeldl) haavji raiclatnatlon On Um inat day III SjiII l.nko linn niMilr tlir wl.p mm on both aldaa sii up and andoavw io tnka notica aa thay hnr nol dona ?tin, the uncnmollmaniary axthjtnn of olaoa nuit'ii's waa atatted batwaan tha opnoatna ranha hy ny of aiiluruei, of brlntara Ink, duly marked "political advartiaa. mi-ill" in aacn InatAnca, |