Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-13
JUSTICE DONE.
THE RIGHT ON TOP.
Corruption Gets a Set
Back.
FEARLESS CITY FATHERS.
Prominent Citizens Before The
Board Of Trustees.
JONES COMES TO THE FRONT.
BALLOT BOX STUFFING MUST
STOP.
First and Fourth Ward Election
Officers Removed and Others
Appointed.
JONES COMES TO THE FRONT.

when the Board OF trustees met yes
terday, the room was crowded by repre-
sentative citizens who had come to make
an appeal to the Board for fair deal at
the election to-day. Every one present
seemed to feel that the action of the Trus-
tees upon the question about to be submit
ted would be of vital importance to the
city.
Mayor Gregory called the meeting to or
der at 10 o'clock and Trustees RYAN and
Jones were in their seats. After the min
utes of the last meeting had been read and
approved
THE BALL WAS OPENED
BY Grove L. Johnson, who addressed the
Board as follows:
" Mr. Mayor, and Gentlemen Of the Board ::
l appear before you as Chairman of a COM
mittee appointed by the Republican Central
Committee of Sacramento, of which w. H.
Beatty is Chairman, to represent the views
of the committee, most of whom are here,
-sad .erequest this Board to make change
in the officers of election as already pub
lished in the papers as having been selected
by your honorable Board.
we w ILLS SIMPLY anu SOIely ludl We
may have a fair election and an honest
count of the votes. We are not satisfied
with som 2 of the men who have been sug-
gested or manned by your body. We are
convinced that your body would not have
appointed these men to those positions if
the matter. had been fully presented to you,
or if the occurrences which have since
taken place had at that time been within
your knowledge. We have no particular
set of names to suggest to you, but we can
submit to 7our consideration the names of
four or fivepersons in each precinct in the
city, and can request, and do request you,
from the names that we suggest, to appoint
some one or more of them as officers of
the electioIl. 1t is not necessary for me to
say anything in reference to the necessity
of having
"A FAIR ELECTION,
Nor to refer to the extreme interest that is
taken in tins city election. AS | under
stand the law, the Roard of Trustees of
this city have the full power in the appoint
ment of off cers 81 election, subject only to
the charter Of The city of Sacramento. The
Political C1Sie does not control your action
nor affect your judgment in the appoint
ment of these men. You have the power,
up to the vely moment that the polls are
open, to change the Boards of Elections.
As l under stand the law, the Election
Boards do not take their offices until to-
morrow, and until they do take their
! offices and assume the power or attempt to
exercise the duties of their offices they
are not officers of the city, and YOU have
| the power to change them, just as exactly
any other officer that you have the appoint
ment of. as, for instance, if you
undertake to appoint man to
discharge any particular duty commencing
on the first day of July. Up to the first
day of July you have the right to reconsider
your action and to appoint another person
in his place, without giving any reasons fol
it. l speak of this because there has been
some question raised on the streets as tc
your power in the matter. l donot wish tc
be understood as setting myself up as
Judge for anybody, as being the only law,
yer in the city, or that my opinion is better
than any other lawyer in the city, but
give it as my opinion as lawyer, an opin
ion that is concurred in by others with
whom | have spoken, two or three of whom
are present, that you have a right to make
these changes. l represent here and an
| the'spokesman of this committee, consist
| ing of such men as you see here, Messrs
| Van Voorhees,, BOIL, Hubbard, Strong
| Sheehan, Hebron and others, who ar,
here asking simply for fair play at the cleo
! ton.
alt does not need for me to call you
attention to the fact that in the First Ware
of this city
| GREAT FEAUDS HAVE BEEN PERFORATED
| AT primaries and regular elections 1t ha:
| been a disgrace to this city. 1t has been .
| disgrace to the State, and we submit to VOL
| that the names that have been selected by
you in the First Ward do not all of then
| insure a fair election at ALL In othel
| places. particularly in Precinct No 4, We
object to those men, and we submit to yor
that if you have any doubt about YOU
| power to put Mr.. Stafford and Mr.. Graf
out, you ought to exercise the power by
| Just naturally taking them and putting
them out Their conduct at the primary
was such as to convince every citizen anC
every square man, that they are not the
men who should take the ballots OF homes
men at thep polls in Sacramento city. The
same can he said in reference to Mr.. Fuller
| in PrecincaNo A. He was connected witt
that fraud in the Fourth Ward. and h,
ought to De repudiated by the citizens O
! Sacramento. We have here list of name,
| from which we would ask YOU to make
| selections in filling these places. Mr.
| Pickett, Chairman of the Democratic Cen
| trail Committee, is here representing tina
body, and understand he indorses thes,
men. These aIe the
NAMES OF SQUARE MEN.
| First Plecinct-W. H. Sherburn. J. o
| Coleman, Robert Allen, George S. Wait.
| Second Precinct-H. J. Norton, J. E
Mooney, f. NJ. Leitch, A. Wilson.
] Two and half Precinct-E. p. Figg, J
! G. VanTine, James MCGUIRE, +. S. Hotch
kiss.
Third Precinct-A. S. Hopkins. ]. M
Milliken, NJ. J. Burke, J. 7. Griffitts.
Three and half Precinct-Wm. H
1 Luther, Foster NJ. Mott, o. P. Willis. Ed
F. Taylor, q. C. Billingsly, R. 0. Crayens
H. D. Nash.
Fourth Precinct-Col. James McNasser
r. NJ. Clarken, F. 7. Johnson, H. Longton
Four ard half Precinct-Matt. F. John
son, John Stevens, w. A. Get, Jr.
Mr.. johnson, continuing, said "W,
ask you TO take this matter VI
| and consider it, not as partisaus
not as Republicans, not as Democrats. bu
simply ard solely as officers of the CITY o
Sacramento, charged with the duty, and i
is duty, OF giving the people of this city
fair election and an honest count And
assure you, and in this l speak my owl
sentiments do not want to speak fol
anybody else-if know myself. and thinI
| / do, theres will be fair election and ar
honest count tomorrow, or SOMEBODY will
be badly hurt"
THE DEMOCRATS
Were reprt scented by S. G. Pickett, Chair
man of the: Democratic City Central Com
mittee, who said:
! al am here as Chairman of the Demo
cratic City Central Committee, and l in,
dorse the position of Mr.. johnson on thi:
subject. The parties who have been ap
| pointed to represent the Democrats in thi: