The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 10, 1898, Page 1

Call 4T VOLUME LXXXIV. 163. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JAMES D. PHELAN ELECTED MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO BY THREE THOUSAND MAJORITY A CLOSE CONTEST MARKED BY CONDITIONS THAT ARE MAKING MATTER FOR ADVERSE COMMENT Voters Expressed a General Desire to Turn Out Present Office Holders. James D. Phelan will succeed | votes for lesser lights on either|it is more reprehensible than the himself as Mayor of San Fran-|ticket was watched with interest;outright purchase of votes with cisco. Such is the will of the majority of the voters of this city as indi- cated by the count of the votes cast at the election held Tuesday. Whether or not this majority will be lessened or wiped out by sub- counts or more complete s does not for the mom It t the present time there is is enough to know g to show that the ultin t will be other than it now ars—a victory for Mr. Phe- the night, or practically count was ccm- n 3000 votes separ- ated the two contestants. This being so, it is not strange that the friends Mr. Patton cling to the hope that some mis- of should take or omission has been made, and that the events of the next few days will reverse the situation and put Mr. Phelan on the losing end. The cc ing of the vote on the mur al ticket was a slow and laborious proceeding, and was not wholly completed at mid- 1t. ot During night last 1ds the day yesterday thou . S50 citizens thronged the streets in the bulletin boards where the returns of the front of newspaper count were posted as soon as re- ceived. ( r of the watchiers, f the count of of ns that were noted for | | scarcely less intense. Among politicians and those who take a more active interest in things political there was but one topic of conversation yester- d markable discrepancy between the vote given Maguire in this ity and that given to Phglaan. Everywhere it was asserted that this result was brought about by a trade made by Phelan’s mana- gers at the last moment, in order to avert certain defeat. In other words, it was asserted that the men who managed Phelan’s cam- paign sacrificed James G. Ma- guire, the Democratic guberna- torial candidate, and James H. Barry, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth Con- gressional District, in order to save Mr. Phelan. This was done, it is alleged, by trading blocks of Phelan votes to Gage and Kahn |in return for a like number of Re- publican votestobe cast-forPhe- lan. In this way, it is asserted, Mr. Phelan’s managers succeed- ed in changing the result suffi-| ciently to compass the defeat of | Mr. Patton. This method of “doing” poli- | tics is not a new one, but it is so reprehensible that the most cor- rupt and unscrupulous bosses hesitate to resort to it except un- der the most pressing and desper- ate circumstances. It is consid- ered, and rightly so, the basest nd of treachery, and is a crimi- to influence the As such nal attempt i true will of the people. It was the great and re-| | cold cash. How .much truth there is in these charges that are being'so freely made may never be known, but it is certain that intelligent citizens will scan the election re- turns, compare the vote given Maguire and that given Phelan, and then draw their own conclu- sions. In the same connection they will consider the ante-elec- tion effort of Mr. Phelan’s mana- gers to trade the party organiza- tion and the party patronage to | Rainey and Harney in return for | their support. That attempt was |a base betrayal of personal and | party friends. All things consid- | ered, the contest just closed will |no doubt leave a lasting taint of | bad feeling between all who have been interested in it on the Dem- }vocratic side. | As to the offices other than “that of Mayor there seems to | have been a desire on the part,of fa majority of the voters to defeat | the men who.now hold office and | to give their places to those who | have not been in the public ser- vice. There were exceptional in- stances, particularly on the Dem- locratic side, where the private character of aspirants to office was of a nature to cause the ma- ‘jorit)' of voters to scratch their names in the voting booths. Much of the work of enlighten- ing voters in this regard was un- dertaken by The Call, and the re- sult, as shown by the count, dem- onstrates that the work was not {in vain. Form o. 163, THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. This Compgny TRANSMITS and DELIVEF 1,000 OFFICES IN AMER{C.@. CABLE SE —- INCORPORATED —— RY \ ORLD. £ of the following messaga. iable for errors or dolsys RECEIVED st san Francisc JOHN D. 0, Cala, LOS ANGELES, Cal., SPRECKELS Esq., Proprietor of the Call, Standard Time Nov. 9, 1898. San Francisco. In this hour of my victory I do not forget your magnificent efforts in my behalf and I now express my gratitude for the same. HENRY T. GAGE. BIGGY FEARED BOGUS BALLOTS Looked for win’a.ud in Re-| turns on the General Ticket. The old practices of juggling with elec- tion ballo! ifying reports and doc- toring t eets might have been sterday if the most stringent ive measures had not been yesterday morning there tions of gross dereliction of the part of some election officers stionable conduct in’the withhold- ing of the State ballots on the part of others. The first intimation not as they should be reached the Regis- trar's ears yesterday morning, and ne- cessitated a trip Into the tenderiain. Biggy started and found that unless the utmost circumspection were used there would be e tampering with the ballots. He had no sooner returned from this early morning ride than he was called into the Thirty- eighth District. This time he went w! a patrol wagon and an escort of p What found verifled Stretched out on the tables were the ele tion officers in a state of intoxication, tk tallots practjcally untouchbed. .Mr. Biggy ordered them ‘oWt “anid placed other men in charge in order to secure a fair and bonest count. . The slowness with which the.State bal- lots were returned was the chief cause that things were D R R R e Ty LIEUTENTANT-GOVERNOR +4+4 wonderful victory in the State. 4444 4 deserted the so-called fusion ticket, to a iarge extent refused to support As I look at it, the unfalr manner in which the Democrats attacked the candidates on the Republican State ticket is what led to the latter's The people were disgusted with the con- tinual howling on the raliroad question, as they were fully convinced that it was not an fssue in this campaign, that question having been settled by the late Congress, in which all parties—Populists, publicans—joined. As regards the Populists, it Is self-evident that they were not pleased with the manner In which they were Democrats, and that fusion was a failure. leaders as Mr. Webster, Mr. Shanahan and others of the Populist party AR R R RS SRR SRR DS PO P S GGSGET R SRR RPN ST PPN NEFE ON THE ELECTION. Democrats and Re- treated by the This was evident when such and when also the Silver Republicans it. J. H. NEFF. R S S R of worry to the Registrar and his depu- | ties. Three separate deputations of men | in hacks were sent out to round up the State count. Ignorance of what their du- ties were was the cause In several pre- | cincts of the non-return of the ballots. In other precincts, some of which Mr. Biggy visited himself, it was not ignor- ance, but corrupt influence that prevented | & proper return of the State tally sheet and votes. Mr. Biggy was told to mind | his own business in one precinct south of | Market street, and only obtained the bal- * | lote after full exercise of his authority. It is probable that had not the interfer- co of en |eral cases gross fraud ‘would have been D;:rpulru,leu. idly nearly every district was heard from. the recaicitrant officers began to settle down to their work, and the great major- ity of the sheets Were lodged in the the police been threatened in sev- | The returns came in rap- | and about 2 o'clock this morning | Mr. Biggy was a much worrfed man until | Heg- | and decency belng considered all lsgar'u vault. oncerning the trouble over wi; refurns Remistrar Biggy satd; ood ‘The trouble that has happened over the returns from south of Market street districts I predicted when the Election Commissioners set aside my decision to abifie by the act of 1878 and choose the election officers from among those who are on the assessment roll. | _“When this campaign started I made u; my mind that only by selecting our om‘f cers from among property owners could Wwe get straight election boards. and this plan I talked over with Major McLaugh- lin and Mr. Alford of the Hepublican and Democratic State Committees. Both of them agreed —with me and promised their support, but ‘the Commis- sioners insisted upon the old plan_and nearly forced me into the Supreme Court be’fare I gave in. “The result was that instead fitness was' 081 il Il L Ity MAYOR-ELECT JAMES D. PHELAN. BRI N RRREN RN NRARRARIARRRRINBRRRARIIRNSS MAYOR JAMES D. PHELAN ON HIS ELECTION. The campaign has been an active one, and of my own candidacy I have but little to say. I consider my election an approval of the charter reform movement by the people, who desire the speedy ratification of the new organic law. I also feel that my attitude toward the quasi-public corporations is emphatically in- dorsed. I regret that other officers, whose public services warranted recognition, have been lost in the wave of approval which the people have endeavored to express of the war policy of the President. The charter will no doubt be now ratified, and under it municipal affairs by separate elections will be di- vorced from the unholy connection heretofore maintained with partisan politics. RRRURRIBVIBRR o JAMES D. PHELAN. N NN RN R LR NN AN RRUURRBARRRRRRRIIRRIVARIRIRAIRRINRAIRINR KRRV 2 have returns here by half };mrfllng or I won’t come bac] ce. ast 3 this came into the office to register he left to my of- behind him & siip with his district, his recinct, name and general description. ‘hese slips we put in blocks and then started men out to investigaté them. The result of it was that the lodging-house vote was unusually small—and it was.a straight one. “You can't tell me,” sald Mr. Biggy, required of election officers was a politi- cal pull, and last night I had to carry a whole patrol wagon of new election offi- cers down into tbe tenderloin to take the places of men whom we found in all stages of Intoxication, their ballots lying untouched before them. “In a number of other booths I was obliged to stop the count until watchers _ for iolh partfes were brought in to see | “that these returns are necessarily de- that the count was straight and to-day I|layed. I am afraid now, and have been I thad to send police and deputies out | since last night when I’ found out how ELECTED BY VOTES OF SMALL LAND OWNERS to force election officers to send in re-| things were going, that In some districts To\ This Class Dr. Washington turns on the State ticket. In some pre-| the gopd old ::Jm;'nt. ‘22},,‘7‘5“’:3"{3“- Dodge, Assessor, Declares in tashion a tempted in this election. afraid that these boxes would be car- ried into some alley or restaurant and fixed up to suit, and it has been taking all my attention. It means nothing but fraud when returns are delayed in this way, and I propose to bflni‘i them in if the law and the police can do it. There shall be no election frauds under my ad- ministration if I can help it. “I would have been spared this worry, and the parties would have been save the expense and trouble of watchers if that act of '78 had been followed with regard to election officers. Men who have were drunk; in others they fii.“.?;-“re‘i‘:iea, and I want to tell you that i Bave those returns in to-night or some one will go up for it. “rwhen I took this office it was with the romise, exacted by myself, that I should e free from political pulls and influence, and 1 have been. I put my deputies in because they were competent and for no other consideration. immediately se about systematizing affairs so that soon had personal control of everythlnf, and in doing so made myself personally responsible for tg:‘ og!cl:'u rt}x:l co:&lucc. n this delay returns For e me. It Is the one phase of the e Is Due His Sueeess. Dr. Washington Dodge, the successtul candidate for Assessor, was a very happy but a very tired representative of the Democratic party last evening after there were encugh favorable returns brought from the various voting places to insure his election. He went to his home early, but not before speaking of the campaign and why he believed he had se- cured more votes than his opponent, John D. Siebe. is worry v - umulated property do not pre:ent R R i m&"w’:‘:ghfl,“ ‘when they go to the polls| Dr. Dodge was asked the question: P9 this campaign has been the cleanest| —no matter In what capaclty they €0 To what do you attribute your success other county ine this by, ha o not see why and in this election, when so many of your that we have had for years, though the The Asses- flght has been a hot one. Even if crook- e ere. abides by that law and I party have been defeated?” ness had been contemplated, I don't| the Election Com m]!’“o oel i sor-elect let his thoughts run over the v wi ncisco does not do the think it would have been possible with | county of San I';m 2 e B ts of the past few wesks Hefore :l‘?g:ledu#s\i‘e been saved this one black mark, though I think that in some cases fraud is_intended in delaying these re- turos. am. certain of one thing, and that is that no fraud will be accom- man ! plished. I'm aftex these fellows and I'll rds that I have thrown around g:: %fi?ga%ox. ‘The stuffers and strikers ad no chance. The lodging-house as swering, and then sald: “There were two principal factors in my election. One is that my friends worked day and night in my behalf and continued the fight when it was either man's battle, The other 000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 OOOOOOO00000000000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOéOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WINNERS IN THE LOTTERY OF POLITICS. Mayor. JAMES D. PHELAN. Auditor. ASA R. WELLS, Assessor. WASHINGTON DODGE. Sheriff. HENRY 8. MARTIN. Tax Collector. EDWARD I. SHLEHAN. Treasurer. L J. TRUMAN. Recorder. A. C. BERTHIER. County Clerk. WILLIAM A. DEANE. District Attorney. DANIEL J. MURPHY. Attorney and Counselor. FRANELIN K. LANE. Coroner. EDMUND E. HILL. Public Administrator. JOHEN A. DRINKHOUSE. Surveyor. CHARLES S. TILTON. Superintendent of Streets. MARTIN FRAGLEY. Superintendent of Schools. R. H. WEBSTER. Judges of the Superior Court. RHODES BORDEN. JAMES M. SEAWELL. JAMES M.. TROUTT. FRANK J. MURASKY. Judges of the Police Court. CHARLES T. CONLAN. THOMAS F. GRAHAM. ALFRED B. TREADWELL. EDMUND P. MOGAN. Justices of the Peace. J. E. BARRY. THOMAS F. DUNN. F., H. KERRIGAN. G. C. GROEZINGER. ALFRED J. FRITZ. Supervisor—First Ward. EDWARD HOLLAND. Supervisor—Second Ward. EDWARD C. KALBEN. Supervisor—Third Ward. HOWARD BLACK. Supervisor—Fourth Ward. E. L. PERRAULT. Supervisor—Fifth Ward. WILLIAM H. PHELPS. Bupervisor—Sixth Ward. JOHN LACKMANN. Supervisor—Seventh Ward. LEWIS F. BYINGION. Supervisor—Eighth Ward. GEORGE W. COLLINS /" Supervisor—Ninth Ward. ALBERT HEYER. Supervisor—Tenth Ward. JEREMIAH DEASY. Supervisor—Eleventh Ward. ARTHUR ATTRIDGE. Supervisor—Twelfth Ward. 000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 : B H & & 2 g ; School Directors. E. L. HEAD. W. G.STAFFORD. H. M. HOLBROOK. V. STOW. H. U. BRANDENSTEIN. W. A. KEMP. J. J. CONLON. J. M. THOMAS. WILLIAM M. CANNON. A. A. CAVAGNARO. J. B. COLE. R. ARMSTRONG. Treasurer. Unexpired Term Ending Janu- ary 2, 1899. I J. TRUMAN. Judge of Police Court. Unexpired Term Ending Janu~ ary 2, 1899. EDWARD M. SWEENEY. School Director. Unexpired Term Ending Janu- ary 2, 1899. CHARLES F. BUCKLEY. G. 00000000000000000000000000000 ©0000000000000000 tor was my opponent himself. His as- sessment of the small property owners in the past did not do him any good in this election.” “In what manner did his official con- duct affect the small property owners, that you speak of?’ was asked of Dr. Dodge. The answer was not direct, as he sald: “When my friends and I were watching the returns I would sometimes be a little discouraged at the small consideration I recetved at the hands of those who live in the filne big houses on Pacific Heights and In the Western Addition, where Mr. Siebe seemed to be well liked. ‘Never mind,’ sald my friends, ‘wait until the re- turns come in from the people in the val- leys who have only small holdings. See what they think of your opponent.” True enough, I found that these people gave me their entire support, and in this city the small property owner is in the great majority, when it comes to voting. Then, again, Mr. Siebe's methods of conducting his campaign were not—well, I will not say anything about his campaign meth- ods. It would look like rubbing it into a defeated candidate, and his lack of suc- cess is enough for him.” —_—— Senator-Elect Cutter Here. ‘W. M. Cutter, R:pl;’bllcm Senator-elect of Yuba, Sutter and Yolo countjes, is reg~ istered at the Grand, B \