Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-05


to place them on the supple ement along with
the Republicans so registered, 1874 were not
placed on said supplement
The motive is apparent-to disfranchlse
Democratic voters.
l. w. HELLMAN,
Chairman Democratic County COMMITTEE.
The Republican Committee on Octo.
ber 26th sent out poster. 1t contained
head which is fac simlle OF their cir
cular as above, and the body OF 1T ran
as follows:
Mr. SIR
DON'T LOSE YOUR VOTE!
II YOU want to vote at the election, Nov
ember 2, 1886, go and register at the County
Clerks office before 10 o'clock Wednesday
night, when the copy OF the Great Register
of the county will be sent to be printed.
J. II. Book, JOHN h. BRlERLH,
Secretary, Chairman.
OF course, with such documentary
proof before the world, that the Repub.
lcan officials were busy taking names,
and with the fact patent that these
names would be admitted to the register
by the County Clerk, some of the
names handed in by the Democratic Of
ficers of election had to be admitted to
print. But it is a notorious fact that
when the great register appeared there
was an aggregate of 1914 names of voters,
all Democrats, which were left off the
register. 1t is further well-known that
a dispute being made as to the admis-
sion of large number of names handed
in by the deputies of the Assessors Of
ice, the above 1874 being of the number,
the County Clerk absolutely promised
three prominent Democrats of the
county, to.wit, Hon. S. M. White, Hon.
R. F. Del Valle and Major w. R. Burke,
that these names should go on
the register. That this promise was not
to be kept was not made manifest other
wise than by the discovery that the 1874
referred tos above had been excluded.
Thus these were debarred from
their rights as citizens, and
thus this scheme succeeded in electing
several Republicans to office-appar-
emily so--and among this number was
the Republican nominee to the Congress
of the Union from the Sixth District,
and thus was the Democratic candidate
apparently defeated. 1t is not to be in
ferred that the above was the only un-
fair means employed to accomplish this
purpose. A similar frau dulent proceed
ing was noticed yesterday in the leaving
of many names off the register of 1885,
which were on that of 1884. 1t is safe
to say there were probably 100 SO treated
perhaps more. These both are mat
ters which will be looked carefully into
in detail. The names of every one OF
them will be obtained, and full publicity
given to these facts. There are two
deputies who can furnish more than
enough names to overcome the apparent
majority OF the Republican candidate.
In one case twenty-five names were left
off and in the other twenty-six were
omitted. Then there are the ten voters
whose names had been on the register
in 1884, and were left off that OF 1856.
Here are upwards of sixty voters. and
but a bare beginning is made. There
can be shown to have been 300 Demo.
cratic voters deprived unfairly OF their
privileges in this one county at the late
election.
Gen, Briefly is far from being fool.
He is one of the shrewdesl political wire
pullers in the country anywhere. His
hand in the above matter will probably
appear plain enough to blind man. In
an interview with the reporter of Re.
publican paper at the time, he says:
In the interview referred to. where
HERALD article on the subject is under
discussion, the following is found, the
reporter asking the questions and Briefly
replying;
ject?"
Il will. The article in the HERALD
is intended to screen the Democracy
from pursuit. They have resorted to
the old dodge of calling you're an
other
"On October Goth l learned that DEM
ocratic Deputy Assessors were taking
affidavits Of electors to place the names
on the Great Register and have the
electors vote at the coming election, n.
der authority of the Political Code, as
follows:
"sSEc. III. A certified copy of an
uncanceed entry upon the Great Regis
ter is prima facie evidence that the per-
son named in the entry is an elector OF
the county.
"Judge Brunson and other attorneys
who examined the question thought an
elector who registered in time to have
his name appear in printed copy of the
Great Register had the right to have
his vote received.
"Knowing that the Democrats had a
large number Of afidavits ready to file,
as is shown by the fact that seventy-one
such affidavits, taken between October
18th and October 10th, have been filed
in the County Clerks office. twenty:on
of them having been taken in one day,
the Republican County Committee de-
cided to notify Republicans to register.
We had our circulars printed and mail.
ed October 81. On October 22d the
Democratic Executive Committee sent
out the following circular las given
above):
"The Democratic County Assessor ap.
pointed large number Of special depu-
ties as active agents to scour the county
in que of Dem ocratic votes only. VI
the special Deputy County Clerks
named IN the Republican circular letter,
j. T. Gordon, Azusa; j. w. Buster,
Downey; j. Levy, Lang's Station; w.
L, Slack, San Gabriel; c. w. Hum
phreys, Santa Ana; A. B Caldwell,
Spadra; K. Egan, San Juan, are all we'll
known Democrats. Mr.. Dunsmoor noti-
fed them to receive all applications for
registration. The Democratic circular
and the Democratic Deputy Assessors
xuara scattarad throuoh the county with.