Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 151, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1920 — Page 4

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REGISTRATION MIX-UPS POINT TO SHARP QUIZ Breaking Down of Machinery Said to Call for New . Legislation. FESLER IS UNDER FIRE The breaking down of the registration machinery, due to the inefficiency of the method.,of applying the registration statutes, • today has resulted not only in the demand that a real investigation be made iu order to establish the responsibility of the failure of sworn agents to carry out the provisions of the registration law, but also In the demand that the next Legislature correct any defects In the statutes The method used in the ofTice of County Auditor LOo K. Fsler lu handling the registration applications after they were turned over to that racial ami the apparent failure of officials to safeguard the rights es voters by permitting loose registration methods are accredited with the blame of the breaking “ the registration machinery at the poll, yesterday. WEAKNESSES SHOWN CP ELECTION DAY. The weakness of the method used in Inforcing the registration and election statutes was apparent yesterday as foiThat the registration lists compiled in the office of County Auditor Leo K. Fesler did not correspond in many instances to the registration applications. • That hundreds of applications werg placed in the .wrong precincts. / That numerous registration boards failed to do their complete duty in determining the right of each application to be filed in certain precincts. ' . That in many instances voters, who registered through certain agents sent to various homes and established in various community centers instead of at the regular registration stations, were deprived of their vote by the agents apparently not turning in the registrations to the proper authorities. That many registration boards failed to do their duty and check up on the various applications between the time of the first and second registrations to

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determine if the applications were placed properly. CONFUSION CAUSED BY FKECIXCT CHANGES. That the change in the various election precinct boundaries caused confusion because the voters were in some instances unable to properly ascertain tlieir correct precincts but relied on certain agencies or agents to take the applications without first ascertaining 11 the agents were properly qualified to act. That the of the entire registration system is responsible for the deplorable condition that many voters found themselves in yesterday when they attempted to vote. That in certain precincts an effort was made yesterday to vote by affidavits when a vote was challenged. Suctt- conditions at the polls resulted in several hundred persons, urged on by tho desperate efforts of Merrill Moores, Republican candidate for Congress, to get people voted whether they were registered or not, or if their applications when sent in by mail to the county auditor had been accredited to the wrong precincts, to appeal In person to Circuit Judge Harry Chamberlin of the Circuit Court for an injunction restraining the election inspectors from sustaining a challenge on grounds that they were not properly accredited to the right precinct or because their application had not been officially listed on the registration books. ISSUED 52 SPECIAL INJUNCTIONS IX DAY. In the course of a special hearing which extended late inte yesterday afternoon, Judge Chamberlin Issued a total BAD BLOOD Impure, Thin, Weak, Afflict* the Great Majority of People. w hether in scrofula, sores, bolls, and eruptions; or as rheumatism with agonizing pains and aches in limbs, joints or muscles; as catarrh with it* disagreeable inflammation and discharge; in disturbed digestion, or drag ging down debility and tired feeling—it is correteed by Hood's Sarsaparilla, that most economical and reliable blood remedy and bullding-up tonic. Thousands use this medicine and praise it for wonderful relief. Made from the most valuable remedies that physicians know, and unparalleled in character, quality, taste and curative power. When a cathartic Is n"> t<*d, use Hood's Pills.—Advertisement,

of fifty-two specific injunctions against the election Inspectors, restraining .them from sustaining challenges in specific cases, where the applicant claimed he or she had made out the application and forwarded it by mail to sbtue county election official or political headquarters, but that the application was placed “erroneously” lu the wrong precinct. The court yesterday denied eleven applications for such relief. It is apparent that if the registration machinery had been carried out properly such embarrassments could not have happened because the statutes are clear on the method to be used, ns well as defining the duties of the various registration officials. Many women appeared in person before the court during the hearing in aa effort to protect their first vote, which had been Jeopardized by the failure of (he county auditor's office or registration boards to carry out properly the provisions of the statutes. PROTESTS AGAINST HASTE OF MOORES. During the hearing Attorney Charles

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Miller protested against the “haste” o! Mr, Moores In obtaining special injunction orders for his clients. Judge Chamberlin stated that he would not tolerate such speed and the biukes were put on the efforts of Mr. Moores to rush the hearings. Special stenographers were called hastily into court to aid in making copies of the injunction orders. Typewriters were placed in the courtroom and stenographers pounded the keys while attorneys interrogated the petitioners and while the court was hearing tho evidence. In argument, IVoodburn Masson, Democratic member of the Marion County eleetton board, contended that the court could not control election officials by injunction in registration matters. If there is a contest resulting from the election, the actions of Judge Chamberlin in issuing special voting injunctions may be challenged in the courts. “WERE ENTITLED TO RELIEF.” k Judge Chamberlin advanced the theory that citt*cns x who personally had met

every provision of the statutes in registering, but through no fault of their own, were disfranchised by the erroneous placing of the applications in the wrong precincts “were entitled to relief.” Judge Chamberlin put his theory into effect for both Republicans and Democrats, and at no time dlscrimLnatdtt on party lines. This eleventh-hour resort to injunction lias resulted In much serious discussion on the failure of the method used lu enforcing the registration statutes. u is ewldent that many citizens were disfranchised practically by tho failure ot the proper enforcement of the registration machinery. 1 oterg are demanding that a completo investigation be made to remedy the defect iu tho administration of the regis-

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