Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1914 — Circulating Extra Registration, Petition in Several Counties. [ARTICLE]

Circulating Extra Registration, Petition in Several Counties.

Unless petitions are filed by Aug. 15th, no county can have a special registration of the voters in September. In a number of counties members of all parties are busy now circulating petitions that will be presented within the next few days. " ' It is probable that in some of the small agricultural counties petitions, will not be filed, but it is the wish of the leaders of all the party organizations that special registration shall be conducted in every county and at least in all of the larger ones. , Governor Ralston has appointed' W~‘ W. Spencer, democrat, and Thomas Dailey, progressive, as a commission to interpret the registration corrupt practices and general election laws. > They will prepare for the registration boards a definition of the 'law which will enable them to understand it easily. The new registration law is different in some important respects from the old one. One oif the important changes permits an absent voter to register by filing an affidavit. Another important change is the fact that the new law provides for holding one registration, while the old one provided for pjEfttSA" : ~rr'';r The legislature in enacting this law took into consideration that it would be very difficult to get fie voters registered in the larger counties and it arranged for special registration by petitions, which are now being eireuffated for that purpose.