Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — WHO SHOULD REGISTER? [ARTICLE]

WHO SHOULD REGISTER?

Absentees from the State for More Than Six Months. Among the amendments to the election law adopted by the last legislature is the following, regarding registration of voters in certain Cases: Any person who, having been a resident of Indiana, and a qualified voter therein at any general election, shall have ; absented himself from the state for a period of six months or more since last so voting, or who shall have gone into any other state or sovereignty with the intention of voting therein since last so voting, or during any absence in another state or sovereignty, shall have voted therein, since last so voting, and also any person who shall not have been a bona fide resident of the county in which he resides at least six months before any election, shall, before being entitled to volb at such election -in this state, register in the office of the clerk of the circuit eourt of the county in which he resides, a notice that he claims to be a legal voter in such county. Such registration shall be made at least fifty-nine days prior to any such election, ami the notice shall state such person’s name, age and place of residence (by which shall bp understood his lodging place), both at the time of registration and during the period of four months prior thereto. Secretary Foster’s advice to officeholders, “especially in the south,” that they should not go to the Minneapolis convention, is good so far as it goes. But why should the proprieties apply especially to the south, and why should there be any invidious distinction between state and national conditions?— Richmond Independent.