Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — MARYLAND'S SUFFRAGE LAW. [ARTICLE]

MARYLAND'S SUFFRAGE LAW.

No One Can Note Who Leaves the State for Six Months Before Election. There is a curious situation in Maryland. The Legislature of the State recently passed a registration law which disfran* otaises a large portion of her population, as it provides that no man shall be a legal resident unless he sleeps within the limits of the State every night for six months before the November election. Therefore, a citizen of Marylaud, no matter what the reason may be for his temporary departure or how short his absence, if he makes his abode and habitation for a single night outside of the State, is in danger of losing his right of suffrage, unless within thirty days after thh passage of the act, which was approved in April last, be make afllv davit in person before the Clerk of the Circuit Court that he was compelled to absent bimseH from his regular residence, and intended to return. By this act Maryland has'deprived cf the right) of suffrage all her sons who .travel outside .the limits of the State between May and November; All who go to summer resorts; all who sleep one night in New York, Philadelphia or Washington; all her soldiers and sails ors; all her appointees in the foreign service of the federal government, and hei Senators and Representatives, as well-