This was thoroughly gone Into in the supreme court contests. and you will be astounded when you hear the real facts. It appears that the clerks who attended to the registration of voters had. in a number of instances. neglected to fill out all the columns of the registration sheet. They asked whether a man was a qualified voter and whether he was duly naturalized. but they failed to ask in what court the naturalization papers had been obtained. Three hundred and eleven such omissions were discovered. whereupon contestant jumped to the conclusion that there were 2.000 such cases in the district. and the majority report boldly declares: It is unquestionably established that 2.000 unnaturalized residents. were registered in the district. and that they voted at this election. Not one of those 311 men was summoned as a witness. for if. they had been it would have been discovered that they were duly naturalized citizens and therefore qualified voters. and in fact the registration lists show that they are. only the courts issuing the papers were not given owing to the neglect of the clerks. This whole matter Is disposed of by a decision of the supreme court. which says that the failure of an election official to perform his duty shall not operate to disfranchise a voter. All the testimony. by the way. with regard to the unnaturalized voters was taken in rebuttal and the contestee was given no chance to answer it.
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