The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-22
HOT AND WORDY.

Auditor Strother Runs the Election Com
mission With High Hand.
Yesterdays meeting Of the Election Com
missioners was an uncommonly warm one,
Auditor StrOther playing his usual part
The first heated discussion arose when he
found that the 40 persons whose names ap-
pear on the black-books as doubtful had not
been cited by Registrar Smiley to appear be-
fore the board and establish their right to
be registered.
The Registrar attempted to explain that
the books are not all in yet, in fact only
about half of them; that he had not been
given the time necessary to examine the list,
and that some of the books returned do not
contain a single name that is on the register.
He added, also, that there is some doubt
about the authority Of such citations.
ST0ther jumped at the last remark as
hull would at a red flag. He demanded the
Registrars authority for any such notion,
and fairly snOTted IL impotent rage at the
idea that the board hasnot absolute power
over the elections and all pertaining to them.
He accused the Registrar of neglect in not
citing the 40 doubtful ontS, and declared
that MI Smiley, in place of being a mere
clerk OF the board, is assuming to run the
commission, the election and the State laws
TO suit himself.
sTROTHER'S THUNDER GOES FOR NAUGHT.
Again the Auditor declared that the per-
sons named IN the seventy books furnished
on Saturday should have been notified on
the following Monday. He did not want
the idea to 90 forth that the Commissioners
have no power 20 remedy false registration.
The board has the power, and it proposes TO
stamp out false registration.
Mr. SmIlay's response was that as soon as
the books were IN his possession he would
certainly do as the law directed. Whether
there is authority in the board to issue such
citations or net is nothing to him.
Strother suggested the appointment Of two
expert clerks TO assist the Registrar in nOti-
flying doubtful voters TO appear before the
board, but Mr.. Smiley said he did not need
the assistance.
''We have. the power to appoint such
clerks. pursued Strother, "and | hope you
don't propose 10 take the power Of the law in
your own hands. You are only the clerk Of
the Board of Election Commissioners"
Mr.. Smiley objected to being called the
clerk Of the beard. He declared himself to
be the Registrar, appointed by the Governor,
and owed no Difference whatever to the
present Chairman. who had taken that po-
sitiyn IN the absence of the Mayor, without
even being invited by the rest of the COM
mission, and had behaved like blatant die
tatUr al every meeting of the board. He
undertook to explain the workings of his
office, to show that the extra clerks proposed
are no. needed. but Strother interrupted, in
his customary overbearing and Insulting
manner, by putting his own motion and de-
clarlng 1t carried without vote
FREDERICK TO THE FRONT AGAIN.
Andrew J. Clunie suggested that William
Broderick have the privilege Of full exam
InatOn OF all the records OF the Office
MIR. Smiley said that while he is willing
for the fullest investigation, he does not
want any one to interfere with the work Of
his clerks, as the time is short before cleo
ton. Mr.. BToderiek has been at-all times
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refused permission to go behind the counter
and Interfere with the clerks.
StTother again carried his motion allow
ing Broderick free access to all the records
OF the Registrars office, and he then sug-
gested that three additional clerks be an
pointed to attend to the citation business,
The Democratic party to nominate two and
tie Republican party one.
Mr. OBrien declined to designate third
clerk, but said that eacn party should have
the appointment of one OF the two clerks.
Two sailors who had arrived in port too
late for registration then asked to be placed
on the list, and the attorneys to whom
points VI this nature have been referred
heretofore advised that such proceeding
would be against the law, and the commits
sion decided not TO allow it. 1t was decided
by the commission that Seamen, travelling
statesmen and such like, who have arrived
IN this city since the time within which
registration is allowed by law, are not en-
titled TO be placed on the register now.
Persons who sent communications ex-
planning why they had not registered, and
asking TO be put upon the list, were in-
structed 10 appear before the board in
person.
PLANNING A CAMPAIGN.
Late last evening Registrar Smiley sat at
his desk, reviewing the circumstances of the
day and planning sort Of campaign to best
dispose of the work before him. While
studying out his maps and directions, SO TO
speak, a reporter stepped in, and TO distract
his mind for a few moments the Registrar
entertained him by relating few facts and
circumstances that are not exposed TO the
public gaze.
II all the items that have come to his
notice aud showing the drift of the APP
proacning struggle were to be told days
time and a page of THE CALL would not
suffice, and yet there is volume of signifi-
canoe III everything, in every point before
him.
DO yon see that bunde?" he asked, I'M
rolling dozen or SO large sheets from GER
tain precincts In the Twenty-ninth Assem-
bly, District, containing from a dozen to
thirty names.
well, they are supposed to represent the
doubtful ones in the districts from which
they came. Here are sixty-seven names
from the Third of the TweDty-ninth, all
marked as doubtful, EN- bracing all the in
mates of the What Cheer and Capital lodg-
ing-houses, 527 and 537 Sacramento street
Among the number put down as doubtful is
Henry q. Adams, who has lived in the
What Cheer since it was first started, has
always registered and voted from there, and
never from anywhere else. His name Is in
the directory from there, and in the last
Great Register from the same place.
HE HAS HIS SPOILERS OUT.
'And yet find his name on this doubtful