The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN. FRA /EMBER 191 SAN FRANCISCO IS LOYAL .l RAR'S OFFICE HAS A BUSY DAY WITH MINOR COMPLAINTS|C[TY A0S WEALTHY MR ReGis: TOLFOR DAY N BOOTHS, Millionaires Go to| Work in Real Eamest. Obey the Sum- mons of Elec- .| tion Board. e | | ] of wealth that had hfien! ection Commis- | ction officers went | | heir various posts| | nd sat throughout election booths men and busi- after hour for by the city. They uncomplainingly of an opportunity - willing to make busy hours of the| | ndustriously writing | | off blanks and wces at their set gun boomed deep sighs itizens who ence as | HES 7 PHELAN /L ELECT/ON OFF/CER 27 PRECINCT BE ™ PISTRICT = - O were oters wer to in the spirit n. near Seventeenth h, with the sun roof and through layor James D. ‘h< il Phe- perspira- | ting collar. was his | election officer, | ed the state-| | »ped it was his object to serving,”| | but 1 don’t like to| | man of a chance to president of the| | ion, sat in the close n the Tenth ighth on Fol-| | Mr. Symmes enjoying him- in ntful ¥ Precinct, first election offi- | H. de Young. Mr sely followed by Al RAXEAIELL BAXEL, ell-known firm of Castle | r al formalities Mr. de| ELBECT/ION OF'F/C ERS ] W FIELIMALN, J PRECINET #I O DISTRICT . CARRIES EVERY NORTHERN STATE with the curtains | ¥~ and cast the| Probably one of the most disappoint-| inct |ed men in the city yesterday was inct of the Fl‘g Colonel George H. Pippy, Presidential | L iasks and | Elector and president of the Union| were 1. W. Hell- | League Club, who was not perniitted to| i banking circles, | vote in the Seventeenth Precinct of the | er of the firm u{}'rmrry-s»vemh Assembly District be-| . They seemed| cayge his name does not appear on the peots of earning register. the city. edlander, secretary of the >, busied himself ter and Franklin in | ret of the Fortleth. accustomed to| n over lists and figures | ble election officer. | Western Addition as very quiet. No challenges rted except for change of res. | after the expiration of the time | Pippy appeared at the Registrar's ot—l | fice late in the afternoon and made complaint. It was to the effect that he had registered on May 20 last, bulv aithough an extra force of clerks were | put to work they were unable to trace | any record of the entry. The canceled affidavit slgned by Pippy two years ago was found, but that did not help him in his emergency. Election Commissioners Voorsanger, | ines were used in the ma- | McGuire, Leffingwell and Devoto ali! se booths and few of the| joined in the general search for Pippy's ed any difficulty in|name, but without success. No. rellef could be afforded Pippy, as the Com- mission could not legally go behind the | records and Pippy finally left the Registrar’s office decidedly angry at his | not being able to vote owing to a pofi-\ sible clerical error. Pippy telephoned ! managing them. The heaviest voting was early in the morning and by noon @lmost the entire vote had been:nst in | the district L. M. King, secretary of the Merv; chants' Association, did his share of work in Precinct 14 of the Forty-third | | Voorsanger stated that if Phillips did to his office and identified the date on which he said he had registered by his | having been in attendance named. There were others besides Pippy who | were denied the exercise of their ele(‘-‘ tive franchise because their names did not appear on the register. Among | these was ‘Grattan Phillips of the firm | of Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden. Phillips claimed that he had registered | some time in January from the| Eleventh Precinct of the Forty-first | | Assembly District, but his name could | not be found on the register. A pe-| cullar feature of the matter was the fact that Phillips says he voted at the | May primary. Election Commissioner | vote at the primary he did so illegally through the incompetence of the elec- tion officers. Phillips, like Pippy, lost his vote. OTHERS LOSE VOTES. Similar complaints were filed by | George Flore, who claimed to have | registered in the Twelfth Precinct of the Fortieth Assembly District, A. W. on some | case in the Superior Court on the date | oMo DE YOUNCG ~—— & CASTL. ELECTION OFF/CERS G2 SeEcNCT L T LIS TRICT JIPM./Y./V SACT ELECTION OFfFICER . o ™ eesC/~NCT KBRO pISTRICT SO oo + | though the members bad moved they did not go outside of the Fourteenth Precinct of the Forty-féurth District. from where they were originally reg- istered. The law contemplatés that the ! voter must move outside of his pre | cinct to lose his vote if the time for | registration has ceased. Election Commissioner - McGuire visited all the preeincts of the Thirty- | first, Thirty-seventh, Thirty-sixth and Fortieth Assembly districts, which were supplied with voting machines, and found them all working in fine | order. Word was received at the Reg- | istrar’s office at noon that when the one hundred and fifth man attempted to vote the Union Labor ticket machine in the Thirty-first District, located at Eleventh street, failed to work. expert was sent out and he found that the machinery had become clogged in some way and.the defect was remedied after a delay of half an hour. | Information was also received that | the machine in the Sixth Precinct of the Fortieth District, at 1760 Pierce street, was out of -erder. Election Commissioner Roberts went to the | scene and found that the main lever had not been pushed back far enough. 441 When _this done the machine Jf son | workea freely and no more trouble was | ory oFF/CEb | endountered. e meme/c T | MACHINES A SUCCESS. L2 WBALTHY SAN FRANC ZENS WHO WORKED Y DAY AS ELECTION OFFICE ond Assembly Alonzo Beiderman. found on the lost their votes. man-«laimed to have registered on Sep- register .and Reiber and Reiber of the Thirteenth Precinct of tember 16 last during the precinct District | and Charles W. Their names could not be they Beider- too reg- i | w T prs TRICT s The voting with the machines was | ‘done with neatness and dispatch and it as estimated that at 12 o'clock the automatically registered ex- 12,000 in the four the machines were used. dstration from the Thirteenth Pr?CinC[“o(Ps of the Forty-second District. | ceeded Louis Metzger appeared at the Reg- | where istrar’s office in the afternoon and stat- | was calculated at the Registrar's of- ed that the election officers in the Six- |fice that the returns from the m: teenth Precinct of the Forty-fourth As- | chines would be filed shortly after 6 sembly District had refused to permit o'clock. his secretary to accompany him into Six complaints were received befor the voting booth to aid him in marking | 10 o’clock that the election was not his ticket, Metzger being blind. Metz- | being properly conducted in the Third ger asserted that at all previous elec- | Precinct of the Thirty-sixth Assembly tions he had been allowed to vote in| District. Election Commissioner Lef- the manner indicated. Election Com- | fingwell went to the booth and in- missioners Devoto, Roberts and Lef- | formed the election board that if any fingwell informed Metzger that under | more complaints were made he would section 1208 of the political code he |remove the entire board and appoint | was entitled only to the assistance of | substitutes. No more complaints were two officers of election of different | received after Leffingwell's threat. political parties after the latter had! 4 g it signed affidivats that they would not | ¢rap's office that & sifn Anmouncing the ;;ma ‘t“f;:"“i’fl‘lil”" l‘””{‘;“:‘"g 'h‘““"""'k“ | candidacy of Jeremiah Dillon for As- ng of the ballot by Metzger. Metzger | g, i ThistEeew i \\:s tatnclined to suhmngln this ('gn- semblyman of the Thirty-seventh Dis- dition and left the Registrar’s office /ith the intimation that he might not te at all RUMOR IS INCORRECT. A rumor gained currency that the members of the Pacific-Union Club who reside thereat would not be per- mitted to vote because they Mad re-! moved from their old building at the northwest corner of Post and Stockton It Haight street,. utilized for the place of the Fifth Precinct of the Thirty-seventh District. Commissioner | Lefingwell went to the booth and tore | down the sign, which was suspended in violation of the election law. When the polls ¢ 5 o'clock word was_received a Registrar’'s office that™she mach Precinct of the Thirty-sixth District streets to the opposite corner withiny could not be unlocked and Caretaker thirty days previous to the election.| Ramsey straightened matters out at The rumor was incorrect because al-!once. polling i District and _apparently was well| pieased with his job. At Post and | Leavenworth streets, in the Tenth | Precinct of the Forty-third, Lippmann | Sachs showed what an efficient clerk | he could be, and J. D. Grant in the| Tenth Precinet of the Forty-first wielded his pen over the tally sheets. The election in the Forty-first Dixsv ;assed off quietly. The voting ot Do eatly in the ¢ay. In the|that party. Seventeenth Precinct the voting was | practically all over before noon. This precinct is near the gates of the Pre- REPUBLICAN ELECTORS. sidio. | in the Thirteenth Precinct of the| :"E%;A;ESSG‘;‘:OD Forty-first District 193 votes were | CLXSSED £ OB polied out of a registration of 202. CHARLES M. HAMMOND | The voting in the Mission and Sunset | FRANCIS M. SMITH . ;| WILLIAM J.' DINGEE districts was conducted in an unusually | ForEEE" T propy guiet and orderly manner. The police- on duty at the yullm; places de- | MORRIS B. HARRIS .. CHARLES J. WALKER men ARLE _WALKI] BEDWARD J. LIVERN. slared that it was the quietest elec- | RICHARD MELROSE WILLIAM COSTLEY (8. tion they had ever known. The vote DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS. | HOBRRT R CHAPIN (P.) from Tenth street to Ocean View was| JOHN GARBER Fifth Con the heaviest ever known. Where ma- | EDWARD WHITE 5 Pl (RW'M mnrk;t."m chines were in use almost all the men | | WILLIAM J. WYNN, L9213 registered rned out to show lnelr‘ 7 | (P:FSR“HIBT’\ Y (8). 1,279 W -1 i GE B, PRATT (P.). 120 pe preferences. Some one is sup | 8 o gpprrdiecsee froe S CHARLES J. WILLIAMS (U. 861 who wished to vote for the Labor ) andidates in precinct 5, district 31, by | tting a part of the face of a ma-| hine from view. The heavy screen jch hangs below the names of parties and candidates was raised so as to cover the Union Labor ticket. The seal was then broken and affixed to | he machine again to correspond with | THOMAS BOOTH OSWALD SEIFERT . sopaanmann he change in the position of the! 5 5 B“"“F“ screen. e e st 10 W WOODBEY James Kenney entere e booth | about noon prepared to vote the Union | (HAR‘:&OEIS“EE _‘FLMRS‘ 307 Labor ticket and when he could not| CHARLES J. HALL 367 find it notified the eleo!lonlomcen\ that | .\’:))IKL‘I‘.!:\)M “om:_l;fi_m\' ;g somethin was wrong. Investigation 3 D O e dflflcunfr -nd! A iR DK 4 the necessary repairs weee madehtm-n 367 mediately. Kenney was the one hun- | 3 dred and Afth man to cast his vote in wfgfifi,hggfggfi@s -4 the precinct, but as the machine was n proper shape in the morning it is| ASSOCIATE JUDGES SUPREME probable that few if any intended ‘COURT. Union Labor votes were lost. The at- | tempts to influence voters near the (Unexpired Term.) oolls were few and far betweel. A'm G, LORIGAN (R.). 078 { JULIUS T. DOOLING (D))..... HERMAN G. WALKER (8. JAMES H. BLANCHARD (P.) REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS Fourth Congressional District. KAHN (R.) STATE SENATORS. Seventeenth District. FRANK A. MARKEY (R.). Mnewmth District. R. J. WELCH, R.-U. L. JOSEPH HOLLE, D.. . 1,560 GEORGE WILLIAMS, S. 338 Twenty-First District. EDWARD I. WOLFE, R. see 4,805 D. W. BERRY, D.-U. L, . 2,009 A. C. HASKINS, 8.. 351 Twenty-Third mlfl'lct. G. B. KEANE, R.-U. L. A. McMAHON, D. FRED FICKEN, 8 D. H. BKILLIN, T Twenty-Fourth District. P. J. HASKINS, R 3. B, BYRNE, D, Twen&ymmnflcv. {oHKN = NELSON, R EH. H MANN, MEMBERS _OF ¢ ASSEMBLY. Twenty-. l_-.lzhth District. C. T, HALLENQUIST, § CHARLES R, FRANKLL Twenty-Ninth District. J. A. CULLEN, R.-U, L.. PATRICK MORIARITY, D J. J. McKELVEY, §. ... Thirtieth Dhtrlct. FRANCIS McNAMARA, R. E. J. TWO! TIMOTHY RYAN, T. R. MANN, L .. Thirty-First District. JEREMIAH LUCEY. R. T. .EOKENNFY .. JOHN J. uzwm";am L) Thirty-Third District. 8. WILLIAM H. SKERRETT (1) Thirty-Fourth District. r v. SEVERENCE (R) cu)slu:y (D.-U. L.). sowuoN OROLOFF _(S.) C. J. AYER (L)......... Thirty-Fifth District, B. P. !READWI:LD R J. A, CLIFFOI ANDREW BmORNITZER s Thirty-Sixth Dlstrlu. E E; PFAEFFLE, R....... OFFICIAL RETURNS OF LOCAL CONTESTé While the main issues of the campaign were decided.by a sweeping Repubhcan victory, two Superior Judges were electeti who were not of | There are many who want facts and figures for the sake of comparisons. The statisticians and politicians want to know just how and | why it happened. For the benefit of those who want to know the following official returns of the city are given up to the close of me count at midnight; F. F. C. JOI S, l( . 2,886 J. H. LKLIAl D - 1,466 Thirty-Eighth District. i | H. ©. BECKETT. R 1,907 F: CHARLES FLEMING, D. Thirty-Seventh District. 1,163 JAME JOSEPH BRACKMANN, 1.-U. L. (count umitted.) M. BTIGU . FRGMBERG, ! PROPOSITION. KLY Assembly Bill No. 886. D. uus 8 < ‘T. McMURRAY, 1. Fortieth GUS HARTMAN. R. D. 8. HIRSHBERG, D Forty First Dlsu-lu o 2lelc] D FOR THE CO District. EOARD OF NG FOR ACT TO A VOTE OF PROPOSITION ......... THE PROPOSITION + | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDME: \TS Forv.y-Second l)lstrk 5 . MCGOWAN, R. . FARNHAM, D. Senate Amendment No, | SENATE CONSTITUTION. NO. 2, TO PRU!'IJ; e THE STATE OF Pony-Thlrd Dlstrlcl. llARC HANTHO\Y R. T, E. HAYD! ING THE CO JOHN MPSSER, S. A J. W." SPENCER. U. D 24 OF 1 TH Fon)-Fourtll Dlstrlct. LATING TO TH i DICIAR NEL VOGEL. R. TABLISHING COURTS OF APPEAL. CHARLES EDELMAN, D! farch 14, 19¢3.) W. H. GLADDING, 8., Forty-Fifth District. ! LOUIS STROHL, R 140 | Senate Amendment No. 4. D JOSEPH SILVA. 944 | ATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDME: GEORGE NESBIT, §. 12 | SO R A R JUDGES OF SU PFR!OR COURT. THE FEOP'.I-‘ OF THE STATE OF CAL- ORN AN AMENDMENT TO THE FRANK H. KERRIGAN, R............ 21773 CUI\leTLTlON BY ADDING + 044 the | Fifth Precinct of the | An | districts | trict had been nailed in front of 542 | in the Eighth | ESOLUTION TO PROPOSE TO | UP A GREAT | PLURALITY P i Gives Republican . Party Splendid Support. ifntire Ticket Ex- - cept Judicary . Victorious. riiininpin No eity in the Union can claim greats er pride in the great result of yester- | day’s tion than San Franéisco, | which, up to the close of the count at | midnight gave the Republican electoral ticket the splendid plurality of 15,868 This ality was out of a total count of votes. When the count is e to-day the plurality of the ublican party in San Francisco will doubtless much greater than the: figures show, and th the State will again be 2 ders for the silken banner of the The figures supplied by the Regi t county ¢ ng the bid- faith. at midnight w that stonal candidates and the T publican legislative ticket of the ci districts were elected. The incumbent candidates for the judiciary—Judges | Seawell, Troutt, Murasky Kerri- gan—were re-elected, being carried into office by a splendid non-partisan vote that speaks in fitting approval of thei {administrations of their dignified {offices: As heretofore the people re fused to hedge the judiciary with party lines, and the men whe, through | the years of their incumbency, have guarded without fear or favor the rights of all the peopie were rewarded for their faithful service. the. question of clary, however, could m- Rept alanche be ved. G | tricts agains e ihfpuh ic | zation and efforts to defeat i tive candidates by strengther | Demoeratic candidates with 1 \bur nominees were without {the Thirty-seventh Assemb | F. C. Jones. Republican nor | the Assembiy, signaily defeate Dillon whosé nomination { Democrafic party was strengthened by the | Only in di ju- an presentation to the candidate of the Union Labor nomination The Republicans who jumped over | the traces in the Thirty-ninth Assem- | bly District and put E. T. Murray in | the race as an independent c late | for the Assembly have also faced the bitterness of defeat. T. E. Atkinson Republican nominee, was elected by a comfortable majority and now the in- dependents find themselves clear out of the fleld where political plums may be picked when the Legislature meets. Notwithstanding the sweeping vie- tory of the Republican party there was | one other party in the contest yester- ay that cast a vote that is significant. This party Is the Socialist. In the city | alone it polled over 5000 votes and If it keeps' growing at the ratio that has | marked its progress since the last gen- eral ‘election it will soon be a factor in the game of ballots. The Prohibition party displayed but little strength. It cast but a few hun- | dred votes in the city, and these were widely scattered. e ve— \ SECTION IO ARTICLE riX 2O AS SECTION TWELV NG TO THE oL TAXATION OF THE PROPRRTY Now OR HEREAFTER BELONGING TO CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF =cn-:.w‘zs (Adopted February 6, 1908.) FOR AMENDMENT NO. 4 3 AGAINST AMENDMENT NO. 4 Senate Amendment No. 11. AL AMENDMENT TO PROPOSE TO VE, RE- - 12171 .« 50 AL NIA, AMENDING ARTICLE xm or 'ATE CONSTITUTION BY ADDING TO A _NBW SECTION TO BE {BERED (ONE AND THREB QUAR. A = TO EXEMPTI S| {wH\«, FROM TAXATION st o 1908.) . -ee BT 9954 nate Amendment No. 20, | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT | “NoO. RESOLUTION TO PROPOSE Yo | THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALL A AN AMENDMENT TO ! ITUTION OF THE STAT ? AMBI BENAT AND 3 LIMITING EMPLOY °S OF THE SEI D OF ,\n LB AMENDING .A“) d March 13, 1908.) ). 20 I NO. 20 Assembly Amendment No, ASSEMBLY = CONSTITUTIONAL N ON ‘PEOPLE CALIFORNIA AN UE AND TAX: \Tm\ Adopted February 26 T STITUTIONAL AMEND- A RESOLUTION TO pRo- PEOPLE OF THE STATS SRTICLE IV OF THS CAMENDMENT TO THE STATE OF CALIFOI ITUTION OF umwr* A NI NG, 35 Prominent Peruvian a Sulcide, LIMA, Peru, Nov. 8.—Luis R. Ber- | mudez, a prominent resident of Lima, ! shot and killed himself with a revolver yesterday. f‘{el\was connected with en- terprises o merican ecapi ; L pitalists in —_—————— EXHIBITION OF WATER COLORS. Miss Helen Hyde's work in Japan. Viekery 236 Post 3f.; closes Wednesday eve.®