The morning call., 1890-10-20
THIS YEARS VOTE.
The Returns Received Make 1t Over Sixty

The Returns Received Make 1t Over Sixty
Thousand
In the Registrars Office at the new City
Hall the clerks were as busy rs beavers last
night preparing the great register for the
printers. Since the close Of registration on
Saturday they have been at work day and
night, and under the supervision of Regis
trar Smiley and Chief Clerk Louis Jacobs
excellent progress has been made.
Up to 10 o'clock last night all the precincts
had sent IN their returns except ten in the
outlying sections of the Western Addition
and the Mission, and on a rough estimate
60114 voters had registered their names. Of
this number SO, $50 were recorded at the new
City Hall and 26,2S2 in the precincts. At
the last Presidential election, in 1888, the to-
tai registration was 1913, showing an in
crease this year Of 1865 as far as the returns
have been counted. OF the registration of
5S,,549 in 1858, 36,417 registered at the new
City Hall and -, 1S2 in the precincts.
Chief Clerk Louis Jacobs, last night, in
speaking of this years returns said: I'VE
are pushing things as fast as We can and |
must say that the force OF clerks. number
ing about fifty, are doing all they can and
doing it well. We must send the returns
from SO precincts to the printers by not
later than Wednesday, as the law calls for
the printed copies to be ready by Saturday.
cincts in sending IN their returns. We
could do without the books ii they WOuld
only let us have the affdayltS, so that we
could examine them and ascertain their
genuineHesS. The held-back papers are
due from Democratic deputies, who prob
ably desire to canvass the precincts to be
sure they don't miss man.
Taking the figures As they foot up from
what has been sent in, | think there is bu5
very little 'stuffing' going on. l figure, of
" pr.ffN ri Snrl
election totals. In 1885 there were probably
soIa- 40C2 stuffed votes on the register, and
l suppose there will be about as many on
this. ! GU VIII notice that there is an III
crease in the precinct registration, due in
my opinion TO the fact that the trend of
voting population is toward the outskirts
of the city through the opening up of so
many outside residence lots. The Office
registration has fallen off on the same prin-
cipie The downtown precincts show a
falling fl and only average about 100 to say
go TWO years ago. There is some colOniz-
Ing going on downtown, but very little
stuffing believe that is new stufing.
1t Is fair TO assume that the total regis
tratiOn this year will be about $4,000 or d.
OJO. HE outstanding ten precincts may
give us 500 more votes, or only 100; but
think they will not run as high as 800.
The reports sent in are generally writ
ten up in good shape, though occasionally
. We come across some penmanship that looks
as If a hen had made tracks across the
paper. There have been some complaints
sent in about the refusal to accept affidavitS
in some precincts, but, considering that this
year we have 80 precincts, against 176 two
years ago, the number OF complaints are re-
markably light.
Getting out the great register is a costly
piece Of work, and $50 for each precincts
expenses is a light estimate. There will be
S, $50 registers printed, and it will cost at
least $4,000 TO Go this branch of the work
alone.
The registration could be done much
quicker, better and cheaper if the precinct
registration was done entirely away with
and the work all centralized in this Office"