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Show THE COMING CONTE8T. Registration for the coming election elec-tion has already begun and will bo continued Intermittently until Just be-foro be-foro tho voting tlmo arrives. If the number registered woro taken ns an Indication of tho political trend, It would not be a very encouraging situation, sit-uation, for most of tho registrars on tho opening day Mondny last had llttlo to do, somo nothing nt all. But such a stnto of things Is by no means n criterion, as tho tlmo when registration regis-tration will bo mado effcctlvo Is somo dlstanco ahead, nnd It Is qulto Impossible Impos-sible to work up much Interest In contests con-tests so remote ns that of Novembor next. Thoso who nro entitled to hnvo their names on tho voting list nnd havo not yet availed themselves of tho prlvllcgo can nnd In nearly every caso will do so boforo tho fateful fate-ful tlmo arrives. Tho proportion as to now arrivals hero and thoso in our midst who hnvo Just reachod their majority Is not known, but thero will probably not bo a great deal of difference, differ-ence, nnd unless they or much tho greater part of them should go ono way In tho matter of voting n wholly Improbablo proposition tho general result will not bo much changed from what It would hnvo been without them. Both tho great parties hero aro divided di-vided against themselves, tho Republicans Repub-licans being by far tho grcntcr sufferers suffer-ers from that condition, and this clr-cumstanco clr-cumstanco sets aside tho means by which computations havo previously been mado. Besides, tho Socialists are a fnctor to bo reckoned with, especially es-pecially If tho trades unions should make common causo with them. In such latter event their vota In this county should bo 5000 and might possibly pos-sibly reach C00O, which would likely taVo them from tho foot of tho class nnd mako them nt least third In tho race; and this suggests tho posslbll- HftMttlWMIUMtMMMMtiatltM Ity of tho election being a mixed one. H Well, worse things than that might flj happen. HJ The choice of supreme court Judgo, flj representative to congress and tho flj legislature nro tho only features of flj tho contest in which the stato at largo flj participates, and undoubtedly thcro flj will bo n lively scrlmmago ovor all flj these, with tho chances favoring tho H Republicans, for outside of Salt tako H County tho splitting properalty Is not H engaged in so extensively, In most H counties not at all. Thoy havo near- H ly half tho state scnato to begin with, H and this Is a pretty good start for a H majority of tho legislative body; but H this Is by no medns conclusive. Strange things may happen botween now nnd tho Idea of November. |