The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1898, Page 3

o HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1898. 3 THE INDICATIONS ARE THAT PATTON WILL BE ELECTED PATTON PROBABLY GETS A MAJORITY His Election Con sidered Certain. Rumor That Trading Was Done. this morning very | little progress had been made In count- | Ing the municipal vote. In some of the precincts the co of the State ticket | was not yet complete. Every indicafion points to the fact that Charles L. Patton has carried the | Up to 2:30 o'clo city by a very safe majority over| Phelan. Forecasts made by the Demo- | cratic managers yesterday gave the | iire by a majority of 10,000 | ity to Ma; a majority of 3500. | and to Phelan by Results show that Maguire's vote did not come up to expectations by an ap- | proximate of 15,000, and it is reasonable to suppose that Phelan’s vote will be proportionately less. It was asserted in certain quarters last night that the unexpected vote given Gage in this city was due to the fact that Phelan’s managers at the last moment had effected a combination by which he traded off Maguire in order to secure votes for himself. SAN THE ELECTION IN FRANCISCO Incidents and Peculiarities of the Contest Between the Great Parties. Cotal vote cast CTION day and now ne and L that re- | gone, | mair s the fix- s to be done ing the exa suc s or failure. In San Francisco the elec- he campaign peculiar n as well preceded it was one of and was marked by condi- | gen- isan- before presented at bitter p; lines separated | Str - than pa and it is safe to , 75 per cent of the ast in accordance with nal erence, regardless of the s of the voters. The straight Re- or Democratic tickets that 1d their way into the ballot boxes i far between. rom the standpoint of a dis- pectator the election passed and there was little out- lication of the undercurrent of ement, personal feeling and pri- jealousies that dominated the d and influenced the ulti- The absence of visible 1igns of the more than personal interest taken voters in the proceedings of | the day and the final result of the day’s svents was due, no doubt, to the pecu- jar nature of the campaign just closed. | Never before in the history of the State | aave the issues at stake been so plainl ret forth before the people, not alone by | the press of the State, but by the op- »osing candidates themselves. In man tespects the manner in which the cam- paign was conducted in this city was more like a house to house canvass than any ever before seen here. The candidates sought out the people and lald their various claims for recogni- tion before them by word of mouth. If| there was a voter within the confines | of the city who did not know what each | and every candidate had to say for | himself and the principles for which | he stood it was not for lack of oppor- | tunity. s a result of this campaign of edu- of the voters ar cation the great mass went to the polls yesterday with their minds fully and finally made up as to their choice of candidates. There was no stopping on street corners to argue | concerning the merits of respective candidates, and there was no button- holing by strikers paid to loiter about | the polling places to catch the man whose vote could be influenced. The busin of voting began at the | time of the opening of the polls and | t ahead with clocklike regularity | until the closing hour. In this connection it is proper to give | edit to Registrar Biggy, who for | months past has been untiring in his | efforts to Instruct voters as to ther | their Thou- tions bave been answered jum of his office and | due ¢ rights and Iimitations. h all comy pefore and during the day of election, ded to and a law- Qu the m Jints of whatever nature, both | throu were promptly at ful and satisfactory adjustment made. The effect of this was apparent yester- | day the mistakes that were | made regarding the location of proper | polling places, the rights of voters and | .tails necessary to the proper of ballots. At Registrar Biggy’s | Grand Jury remained in all day yesterday and last| ht visited a great number of the | s in the city during the | | reque session [ polling plac of the count. | The vote cast was unusually large in‘ rroportion to the registration, a fact | due in part to the perfect weather, but | more particularly to the conditions al- | ready enumerated concerning the per- | sonal interest taken by voters and the ntensity of private partisanship. With | the exception of a few in uznlficanfl rows and a few arrests for minor of- | fenses_against the election laws, the | day was devoid of incident. | progre; Watch- ers at the polls had very little to do | thei | | tocratic | and then the voting = | ar | municipal campaign of and the police were out of employ- | ment In many of the districts south of Market street a peculiar condition of affairs prevailed. Men who all r lives been known as stanch Dem- ocrats were out working openly in the interest of Gage or Patton, or both. have | Former ward bosses who have hereto- fore drilled behii.d the Democratic band wagon, but who Were not considered sufficiently “high toned” for the new order of things in the Democratic camp, were out making a fight for the Supervisorial candidates on the Repub- lican ticket who had been selected from | among the residents of the ward and | not by the Democratic plan of coloniz- ing from among the kid glove and silk hat job chasers of other and more aris- districts of the city. What these men did was plain to-the view of all men. What was done by the “si- lent vote”—the ballots of the men who express their views by their ballots— will be seen by scanning the returns. Whatever the result, the electidn may be considered one of the most satisfac- tory and successful in the history of the city. As the vote cast was an in- telligent vote, the result will be the will of an intelligent majority. - HOW THE DAY PASSED AMONG THE VOTING BOOTHS. It was a peaceful election yesterday, except in one or two precincts, and the active partisan was more conspicuous for his quiet demeanor than for h aggressiveness. Tales of riot and al- most bloodshed came from the voting booth of one of the downtown pregincts and rank inebriety was reported! from another, but in the main the day passed quietly. It was only after the count began that the real excitement com- menced. The voting was heav: ing, in some of the precincts over half the votes being cast before 12 o’clock, and the usual rush just before the polls closed was not apparent. How the hours passed at the booths follows: The Twenty-Eighth— The Twenty -eight ally quiet yesterda In not one of the sixteen prec! was there as much ex- citement as there has been at any time since the nominatio; Early in _the morning the men began to vote and by noc y half the ballots had been cast. i p. m. three-quarters of the voters ad visited the polis and at closing time nearly the entire strength of the district had been voted here was a strong anti-Phelan feeling around the booths and throughout the dis trict, but in no district was Phelan with- out a following ready to shout for hi on the test provocation. Very few of the candidates visited the Twenty- eighth. Dr. O'Donnell was out in force, but no one treated him as a serlous fac- tor. Still, in many of the precincts he polied a heavy vote and in others ran Dr. F Hill a close race for frst honors. The Twenty-Ninth— Long Lefore the polls were opened 1s of workingmen gathered before Twenty-ninth Assembly District and awaited the arrival of the | election officials. For two hours after the balloting L n the voting « heavy; then it began to fall off and gradually dwindled down to a few stragglers. Dur- ing the noon hour there was another rush med to be over. ssions by the voters indications were the ~ Republican ticket was receiving greater support than two vears ago. Most of the voters cast allots and returned to work. no_aisturbances nor arres in the district during the day. . © oo The Thirtieth— Over 50 per cent of the ballots cast yes- terday in the Thirtieth Assembly District were deposited in the ballot boxes before oon. Unlike former elections there w: 0 rush as. the hour of closing a proached. The clection passed off quietly there were no unusual incidents, few voters told ho¥% they had voted and they went their way as soon as their ballots had been cast. 'Republican gains are looked for in this district. Registra- tion was much lightep than two years ago, and there was also a decrease in the number of votes cast. The Thirty-First— Almost a Sabbath quiet prevailed throughout the Thirty-first Assembly Dis- trict during the balloting yesterday, and but for the hurrying and scurrying of candidates and their friends there were no outward indications that a State and nusual interest hd bitterness had reached a climax. The police officers on duty at the vari- ous precincts had nothing to do except ous Paround and chat with their friends about the probable result. About three- fourths of the usual vote was polled in this district. Voters naturally expressed a belief that their favorite candidates were sure winnners. No accurate esti- Judging from T that Very al in the morn- | h District was unusu- | | | | L | | | | mates on the drift of the balloting could be obtained. | The Thirty-Second— The Thirty cond District lles south of Bryant street, and is what is commonly k of the ‘‘tough’ quarters of e time of closing the polls. yoting rted in early and kept up steadily all , but the poll was unusually heavy in da the ‘mornir The Thirty-Third— The Thirty-third, which takes in a great portion of the Mission Potrero and South San Frahcisco, also saw a quiet d At the Fourteenth Precinct there was a slight delay early in the morning, owing to the fact that through an error th lots received were. for the Thirt | District: This soon corrected, | the voting went on up to 5| o’clock. Some f Vou who had re- moved from their prec within the last thirty days attempted to vote, but were promptly challenged, and swallowed | th nedicine like men. The Thirty-Fourth— { In the there was lost throu precinct but those that remained voted almost to the full number, The balloting was heaviest in the Second Precinct, where 215 votes were cast out of 23 registrations. he Eleventh followed with and the rest of the ty-one precincts listed from 150 to quiet pre- vailed thro listric here was no incident kind. Practically : ast by 2 o'clock in the | nt was begun at 5 twe 0 ¢ m, ar o'clock to' the The Thirty-Fifth— In the Thirty-fifth the same condition of affairs prevailed. The voters came in | and did not loiter around the polls their had been accom iths were those | enth and Twelfth preci Mission street ar the carhous downtrodden railroad men, who it | a d were to be forced to vote the | Republican ticket, turned out, only voted but worked for the su £ the ticket with such entk m that tw had to be d down” or_doling out campaign lite Butone arrest w police inside the 100-foot limit the entire district upon > ious charge nk and | disorder An inebriated in tne | | Tenth insisted not only upc ing his | own tic! but wanted to se the | | same privilege for every one who_came | into the booth. He was.thrown- into a | patrol-wagon and sent down to the City >rison. The Thirty-Sixth— sixth Assembly District, »ut one-fifth of the area of the city, lies west of Guerrero and east of Fourteenth street, exXtending .to the ocean and to the cousity line of S8an Ma- the The Thirty- which covers teo and bounded by Mission road from Thirtieth and avenue to Guerrero and Fourte . This district | embodies the Almshouse, the inmates of which_voted at the teenth precinct, located at Seventh avenue and K street. ed, and out of this ited their votes in | voters regist 3 had depc were number A s Miem Gl G CficTac th the noon hour. At this time {here were quite a number from the Alm house the sacred . b and mas forty of the num ber who had voted from the Almshous had to obtain the tance of the ofl cers of the polling place to make out their tickets. The voting in this precinct was constant the entire day, as it required a long time for some of the voters to mark | their tickets. The Seventeenth Precinct is in the Sunnyside district ;where the voting was kept up at a lively clip dur- ing the earlier hours of the day. In this precinet Patton and Gage had quite a number of warm advocates, At Ingleside, Where the race course is located, every thing was dull, as the Twenty-second Pre- cinet had but a few stable boys regis fered. From the way the voters attended in this district it looked as if there would be a falling off of about 15 per cent of | the voters registered from those who did vote. . Ev hing was Rn(]uckml in a | quiet and orderly manner throughout the district. The Thirty-Seventh— With the exception of a few challenges the election in the Thirty-seventh Dis- trict was devold of interest. The voters appeared early. and before noon over three-fourths of the total vote had been polled. A contractor named O’Neil made a determined flght against Captain | Freese, independent candidate for Public Administrator. The friends of the latter | claimed that notwithstanding O'Neil's ef- | forts the vote will show that Freese will | have a majority in the district. The Thirty-Eighth— £ Immediately after the polls opened in the Thirty-eighth a large number of citi- zens seized the opportunity to cast their ballots for their respective candidates. In one of the precincts nearly the total vote was polled beiore noon. | Senate and CARRIES THE, triends working for him, prominent among whom was Colonel “‘Bob” Barton and John Koopman. Louis Rattigan, the “pride” of the district, worked indefatiga- bly to add_to the Deane for County Clerk. It was claimed by the friends of Deane that he had a majority of between 800 and 1000 votes over his opponent in the dlstrict. The Thirty-Ninth— The election in the Thirty-ninth Dis- trict passed off jétly. Immediately af- ter the polls wer® opened a large number of voters deposited their ballots. Before ioon nearly three-quarters of the votes in the district had been cast. In the First Precinct a drunken man started to urbance, claiming that he had bheen unlawfully deprived of his vote. As it was shown that he was not registered in the district he was promptly ejected from the polling-place by a policeman. The Fortietn and Forty-First— Fully half the votes in the I Forty-first and Forty-second were cast before 10 o'cl ves morning. The heaviest voting of the d occurred in these districts betw the hours of 8§ and 9 a. m., and by 2 o'clock in the afternoon three-fourths of the en- tire register had been scratched\as voted. When in the evening the polls were de- clared closed very few had neglected to cast their ballots. and in consequence the percentage cast iS even greater than that ast election. As far as could be ined there were no_disturbances, raise a di ascer the voting progressing steadily but quiet- ly. Friends of all the candidates hovered around the booths, and naturally all imed that their favorite was running ahead of the ticket. In these districts, however, from a careful canvass it ap- ars that Maguire and Gage ran about _ while Charles L. Patton led in the wht for the Mayorship. Bettman for the Reilly for the Assembly both 1g in the Fortieth and Forty-first ran str stricts. The Forty-Second— In the Forty-second Ashe and Dennery both claimed big majorities at the close of the polls. The Republican ticket in general was believed to lead in these dis- tricts, whe: 0 many business men re- | side, notwithstanding the wail to the con- trary raised by Democratic Democrats and many renegade who have changed their politics. The Forty-Third— The hottest battle of the day was waged in the Second Precinct of the Forty-third District. That there was not bloodshed was due to the vigilance of the police. The fight centered in the struggle for State Senator. There were two candidates Leon Dennery and R. Porter Ashe. ine atter had a gang of bullies behind him, \\’!lm started to run things to suit them- selves. Soon after the polls opened the gang of rufans proceeded to Intimidate voters. One of their number ran afoul of Louis Sternberg, and was promptly placed hors de combat. Sternberg was arrested for battery, but at once was released on cash b There were several other disturn- ances, but further than a few black eyes nobody was injured. ndidates, supporters A good many of the ag voters came |and bruised no: hobbling along on the r adway bearing | Thinking that serious trouble was immi- heavily on canes, while others who were | nent, an immense crowd gathered in tne too feeble to undertake the journey on | vicirfity of C rrell and Stockton streets | foot were carried in on wagons from the | and eagerly awaited the opening of hc | institution by order _of iperintendent | tilities, Police Commissioner Gunst, fear- Ready, who afforded ‘h man every |ing bloodshed, telephoned to Captain Witt- facility in his power to go to the polls | man to send a squad of men to the scene to cast his vote. In this precinet there |at onc With drawn clubs the policemen Qispersed the crowd, but not until several Were made to feel the effects of the &l '“‘ii e l 0 - i il il GAGE STATE BYOVER 10000 MAJORITY - locusts in the hands of the guardians of the police. Last night the friends of Dennery were betting 2 to 1 that their candidate was elected. The Forty-Fourth— A holiday calm pervaded the majority of the precincts in.the Forty-fourth Dis- trict. The vote was a heavy one, being but little less than the total registration. It was steady throughout the morning, 0 that by noon considerably more than half the votes had been cast. The only ripple on the surface was the struggle between M. H. Barry, Republican candi- date for the Assembl: andThomas O. Reilly, his opponent. ome of their fol- lowers engaged in a wordy argument in the First Precinct, but nothing came ot it. In several precincts men tried to vote who, upon being challenged, refused to swear in their ballots. Luke Fay, Demo- crat, was_one of the hardest workers In the Fifth Precinct. The Forty-Fifth— There was a total absence of political workers in the Forty-fifth District. Where once Colonel Mazuma and the ‘“push’ Bonnet, for Sheriff, had a number of were slrongly in evidence there was but little sign of life and activity. To the | water front the same condition prevailed. | men employed on coasting vessels. | SLOWNESS IN THE | to Registrar Biggy that there was no | From many parts of the city he received majority of William | | the man did not appear. casual observer there was no electioneer- ing, no handing out of cards or button- holing of voters. The utility of this method has been removed apparently by the Australian ballot, by which a man becomes his own master once he steps inside _the election booth. Along the North Beach district there were but few loiterers about the booths. Down on the Goat Island is included in the Sev- enth Precinct and a boatload of men came ashore and enjoyed their right to vote. A number of those registered are Some of these lost their vote lhrough being on the high seas. There was no disturbance, the police having a day of comparative leisure, although standing a long watch. PR MUNICIPAL COUNT As the night wore on it became evident hope of obtaining any coherent returns of the count of the municipal vote. | notice that the judges and officers of elec- tion, exhausted probably by the State count, were progressing very slowly. In many booths the greatest confusion ex isted, owing to the presence of half-in- toxicated men, and in some cases to the incredible slowness of the officers. From the Second Precinct of the Thirty-first District the officers appeared at the City | Hall carrying the ballot-box, and evident- ly in no condition to continue the count. The Registrar at once caused their arrest and made arrapgements to have new offi- cers sworn in. Many warrants were asked for other incapacitated officers, and it was reported that several booths might have to be closed for the night in order that efficlent men could be appointed in the place of those apparently in charge. In spite of the difficulties of the situation the Registrar showed remarkable ability to meet all exigencles, and is confident | of having things running smoothly to- | day. \ i |MR BIGGY SPENT A VERY BUSY DAY Complaints Received Prompt At- tention and Law Reigned Supreme. Beginning at an early hour yesterday morning the office of the Registrar of Voters at the city building was besieged by anxious inquirers seeking information. Many of them reported that they had not | been allowed to vote by the election offi- cers in their precincts, but the fact de- Veloped in nearly every case that there had been a change of residence to some other precinct. Mr. Biggy informed each of these persons that they had forfeited the right to vote. A number of them went away protesting against the loss of their franchises, but the majority philoso- phically accepted the inevitable, under- standing that no one except themselves was to blame. Altogether some 600 would-be voters made election day calls on Registrar Biggy. The word which had gone abroad con- cerning the extraordinary precautions to be taken to apprehend fraudulent voters evidently had a salutatory effect, as no attempts at illegal voting were reported at the Registrar's office during the da: Many persons who appeared at the polis had their votes challenged for removals, etc., but the old-time repeater notice- able for his absence. Such was the word that the Registrar received, and it caused him great ction, as indicating the thoroughness of the preparations made under his direction. To be sure, there were a number of in- fractions of the election rules brougkt to Mr. Biggy's attention throughout the day. About 7:30 a. m. word came over the teiephone that there was trouble in Precincts Five and Seven of the Forty- third Assembly District. The Registrar at once proceeded to the scene. He found that the election officers in the Fifth Pre- cinet had thrown out a Republican judge and had chosen a Democrat in his stead, ti while in the Seventh Precinct the re- verse had happened, the judge thrown out being a Demo The plea was made in both cases that the discarded judges had been from three to four min- s’ late in reaching the booths, and that it had therefore been necessary to swear in substitutes from among the bystanders. The Registrar decided against the sub- stitutes and ordered the two Dbelated regular judges into the booths, despite the opposition of the precinct officers. “It was a put up job in both c ’remarked the Registrar, “and 1 do not propose to allow such tactics. 1 tore up the papers of the two substitute judge Another case which acked very strongly of a thwarted attempt at illegal voting developed during the early hours of the day. It appears that two men, giving their names as W. J. Harrison and W. J. Wallace, had registered as living at Page street, which happened to be the place of residence of Deputy E. T. Russell of the Registrar’s n&ic?. This fact was discovered several days ago, but not until after W. J. Harrison had ap- | peared at the office d demanded the cancellation of his registration. As neither Harrison nor Wallace lived at the place mentioned the Rsf‘lsln\r instructed Deputy Russell to lie in wait at the pre- cinct where he was entitled to vote and to capture Wallace if the latter appeared and attempted to cast a ballot. The watch proved unsuccessful, however, as | At 2 p. m. word was telephoned to the Registrar that the entire force of elec- tion officials, with one exception, in Pre- cinctyl5 of the Twenty-eighth District and Precinct 9 of the Forty-third Lnstrict were too drunk to attend to business. Biggy ‘at once telephoned the central committees of the various parties to de- tail new men from the reserves to go and take charge of the voting booths. ‘A few minutes later H. L. Ray com- plained over the telephone that thére was fithi—e~/ 20 crooked work going on In Precinct 1 of | the Forty-fourth District, stating _that there was connivance between the officers | appointed by the various political parties. He asked that immediate attention be | given to the matter by the Resistrar, «he atter dispatched a representative to the scene, who speedily put things in good running order. Mayor Phelan was one of the visitors at the office of the Registrar during the noon hour. He entered _accompanied by his secretary, Colonel Sullivan, and_ap- eared very much incensed at sometfing. 'he cause soon developed. “I wam¥ to know,” exclaimed he, ‘“‘who appointed Marcus Wolf as a Democratic Inspector in the Second Precinct of the Thirty-| eighth District? He's out shouting fer Patton for Mayor. Now, isn’t he a fine | Democrat?" The Registrar looked over the list in his office, and, sure_enough, there was the name of Marcus Wolf, inspector, with the word “Democrat”’ next to his name. Tt/ transpired that Ed Gallagher had ap- pointed Wolf, and the Mavor made copi- | ous notes on a piece of paper and tuen | started out on a search for the City and | County Attorney, presumably to give him | a piece of his mind for choosing Demo- | cratic officers of election who could not be depended upon to support the Demo- cratic candidates. The episode occasioned considerable amusement among the by- standers in the Registrar's office, which was heightened when_the discove wa noised abroad that Wolf was a pro- nounced Republican, who had been mak- | ing campaign speeches for Gage and Pat- ton and who had accepted the office of | election inspector, supposing that he had been chosen as a Republican. ‘Exactly at 5 p. m. Mr. Biggy began the | work of destroving the extra ballots which were in his office, using a printing | office paper-cutter to chop them in pieces. This work occupied over an hour, and was conducted in the presence of a number of | Witnesses summoned for the purpose. S HEAVIEST ELECTION ; BETTING ON RECORD Thousands of Dollars Wagered on Gage at Odds of 2 to 1 and Better. The betting on the election was the heaviest ever known on this coast. This, too, outside the wagers of hats and small amounts wagered among friends to back their opinions as to the strongest candi- dates. Harry Corbett pronounced it the biggest | betting election within his memory. He handled nearly $65.00, and would have filled out the hundred thousand mark had there been sufficient time to place the money before the returns commenced to | be received. | When betting commenced yesterday | morning Gage had ruled favorite over Maguire at odds of 2 to 1. As the day wore on the odds gradually lengthened. At nightfall the odds had gone to 4 to 1 and no Maguire money in sight. In the struggle between Phelan and Pat- ton the former cpened favorite at 2 to 1. In the evening Phelan money went beg- ging, 3 to 1 being offered. The only other contest upon which there was exter Julius Kahn_ and James H. Barry Throughout the day it was even money and take your pick. Once the count be- gan, Kahn was installed favorite at 10 to §, with few followers of the short end TLater on 10 to 3 was offered, and but lit- tle money changed hands even at that price. William Pinkerton, the noted detective, won a hundred each on Roosevelt of New York and Gage. There was but little money placed in the big cigar stores, which are usually custodians of much money. In one of the Stores a_man wagered $200 to $40 that O'Donnell would not be elected Coroner. The man who took the short end had $00 to wager the same way A MULTITUDE AWAITS NEWS OF THE RESULT Call Bulletins Telling of the Progress of the Count Capture the Town. One hundred thousand people were downtown las. night to read the election bulletins showing the progress of the count both in this city throughout the Union. The crowd paraded up and down Market street, and the bright colors and gay hats of the ladies gave that thoroughfare a carnival appearance. The carnival spirit was abroad. Everybody appeared good- natured, and if the returns were such as to ?‘revenl some from cheering, it would be hard to single them out of the multi- tude. The followers of Maguire kept up their hope till the very last. They found conso- lation in the fact that the returns showed the rival candidates running closely to- gether. This was small comfort, and even this was finally swept from them when it was announced that the Democrats con- ceded the election of Gage. The Call’s bulletins captured the town. They were by far the most complete, and were displayed to splendid advantag®. A crowd that nearlv blocked Market street gathered soon after 7 o'clock. Sergeant Conboy found the Y(mple easy to handle, and was congratulating himself on tus success. An hour later be took a uifferent view of the situation. At that time tne street was a seething mass of humanity. On each side of the street a few people filtered by, unless caught in some great jam where they could neither advance nor Tretreat. "fhe Call bulletins from all over the United States were displayed by stereop- ticon in the rotunda of the Claus Spreck- els building. They were at a natural height, and there was neither straining of the eyes nor necks to read the glad tid- ings of the Republican triumph. The first opportunity to develop the sen- timent of the people was the announce- ment of Theodore Roosevelt's election as Governor of New York. This announce- ment was followed by a splendid picture of the colonel in the familiar uniform of his own troop of Rough Riders. This brought out all the pent up patriotism of the people, and they cheered the pcgllar citizen-soldier again and again. The returns from the interior of this State were by this time being received, and showed Republican majorities from every section. It was then announced: | “Gage’s etection conceded by a large ma- jority.” This was followed by a portrait of the next Governor, which was greeted with thunders of applause. The returns were interspersed with pic- ive betting was that between | and State and | | | gust” aggregation of political corruptio: tures of gallant Admiral Dewey, Hobson, Schley, Sampson, Shafter, Joe Wheeler, Miles, President McKinley. and others. Each was in turn applauded. twithstanding the size of the crowd there was no roughness of speech or of action. For a time those nearest the car tracks amused themselves rocking the cars, but no damage resulted. The cars looked like ships at sea as they went slowly through the crowd. There were no_accidents and the crowd slowly dis- persed, until at midnight it was but a ghost of the throng that had gathered early in the evening. It was, to all out- ward appearances, Republican in make up and in sentiment, and was duly appre- ciative: of the Republican triumph pre- dicted by Republican orators. JOY AND GLOOM AT RIVAL HEADQUARTERS Effect of the Outcome of Election Upon Republicans and Democrats. Matters will liven up around the head- quarters of the Republican County Com- mittee to-day. As there were no official returns sent to the committee rooms last night a condition of ennui and suppressed excitement took possession of the few clerks who were forced to remain within the walls.and answer the questions of news seekers. The State Central Com- mittee was the working body last night, and first enjoyed the news of the over- whelming victor but to-day, when the complete returns of the municipal count begin to pour in, the county committee will be the first to en the news. The only labor that fell to the in the county committee he; was_answering questions of on the anxious seat and furni teer watchers with badges clerks dquarters candidates hing volun- nd certiii- cates of authority. sepublicans by the score anxious to see that no infractions of the election laws occurred visited the headquarters and_were vested with au- thorit to see that their wishe w respected. At midnight the rooms wer closed for the night. but at sunrise tk morning they will be crowded with manity waiting to know the full ex f the Republican victory. Victor portion of the tick E but before the people will rest know that not one ‘candidate neglected at the pol is "2 th has been ‘of the Democra The headquarter atic County Committee were practically de- erted last evening. No returns were re- ceived by the few left in charge of the place, and they simply sat and mused. n air of gloom pervaded the neighbor »d, and no one carea to break the s lence. Crushin, the adh rents of Demo and they did not have the courage to bear it bravely. Outside the doors several of the defeat- ed hovered and occcasionally one would calculate: “If Gage has got in and car- ried off the Democratic strongholds, t's the stion where is Phelan? Tha g Then the unfortunate committee of o hundred would receive a grilling calci lated to make any member of that ‘. 1sts desert his party. W. P. Lawlor, chairman of the Union Campaign Committee, said: “I ‘am not yet sufiicientl with the conditions of the which adverse results were received to ribe to any cause our defeat. We have 1 our day in court; we have had our \ring and the people have rendered a verdict against us. That is ali. As Amer- fcan citizens we submit to the will of the people.” Doubtless the Maguire League of Clubs will abandon its rooms in the Parrott building to-day or as on as it can make way with the few effects it has placed therein. An excited crowd of Maguire- ites occupied the rooms last evening and made things merry on several oceasions when alarming rumors of stuffed ballots and double counts were received. These were readily disproved and all hope was abandoned. HOW THE NEWS CAME TO THE HEADQUARTERS Prominent Republicans Hold a Jubilee in the Centpal Committee Rooms. The men of the Republican State Com- mittee who have been on duty at head- quarters or elsewhere since the opering of the campaign never entertained a mo- ment’s doubt as to the result of the bat- tle, yet it was obvious to spectators yes- terday that they were awaiting the re- turns with a feeling of deep interest. Throughout the day telegrams were re- celved from the interior counties stating that Republicans were active and confi- dent, but these messages did not excite enthusiasm. Returns were wanted to make assurance doubly sur When the first few straws were wafted in last evening Major Frank McLaug.- lin, Colonel D. M. Burns, Paris Kilburn, John T. Dare, Wendell Easton, M. R. H: gins, Judge Hart, Jacob Steppacher a: others were clustered about a table tw compare the precinct figures with the Mchinley-Bryan vote of two years azo from the corresponding precincts. Whiie the vote in many precincts was not up the Presidential record, there were R publican gains and remarkable losses to the fusion party. Interest developed into excitement whe the returns began to come in from ve count of the ballots in ‘wenty-eighth, Thirty-first, Forty ond_and Forty-third ‘Assembly dis of San Francisco. It was then seen t Gage was running away ahead of Magu in precincts which had gone against the Republicans in former years and ud: which no calculations of success had been made this year. The figures of the Twenty-eighth As- sembly District could hardly be credited. The fusion managers had relied on a heavy vote for the “Little Giant” in the the W ricts Continued on Fifth Page.