The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-06
PRECINCT FACTIONS.


Committee on Credentials Adjusting
Grievances.
The Committee on Credentials, appointed
by Chairman Van Schaick of the Republican
Judicial and Educational Convention, at the
new W gwam on Saturday, met yesterday
afternoon at the Nucleus Building to hear
evidence in the protest against the recent
election in the Seventh Precinct of the
Forty-eighth Assembly District. DR.. James
Simpson presided.
The committee is as follows: DR.. James
Simpson. Thirty-fif District; William Eve
leth, Thirty-third: James de Succa, Twenty
ninth; William Bendt, Thirty irSt; Max
Goldberg. Thirty fourth; George Smith,
: Forty-thlrd, and ?. W. Lann0n, FoTty-sec-
- end.
l. H. Thompson led the protestants. He
charged that when forty-eight votes had
been. pOlIed in the Seventh Precinct, adj
; vantage was taken OF a brief absence OF
George A. Curteli TO stuff the box; and that
-2l2 votes were found IN the box when the
poll closed, notwithstanding that there are
only 135 Republican voters in that precinct.
He asked for the reading OF the protest and
the affidavits accompanying it.
The Chairman Stated that the document
had been left at the new Wigwam, and
sllenced Mr.. Thompson's growl that it was
the business Of the committee TO be provided
With all the papers necessary TO the eXamlna-
ton to be carried en-.
George a. Curtell stated that he had kept
tally Of the votes at the Seventh Precinct to
lalI-past Il, and forty-e ght had then been
.pOlied. He had left Detective Barry to
watch the box for five minutes, while he fol-
lowed Robert Bergfeld a short distance
away to have quiet conversation with him
On his return Barry said the toTty-eisht
bal lots had been distracted from the box
and handfuls of other ballots stuffed in. He
saw that a number Of Democrats were hang
. grnUnh and g1rTnlSpl hV WnQIn the
stulfng had been done.
:. Robert Bergfield stated that lie was at the
Seventh Precinct poll at 6 O'Clock in the
morning to prevent stuffing. He polied the
first vote at O'clock. He had Tailed forty
eight votes up to hali-past IL o'clock. He
knew that there were not 30 qualified Re
publican voters in that precinct and that
the officers were Democrats.
- john FOdt had a grievance against the
selection in the Eighth Precinct He stated
that he went TO the poll at 3 o'clock in the
morning and found over dozen votes
already in the box. He asked the Judge
fora explanation and received the answer.
u amt going 10 tell you" The Judge
. would not allow him inside the booth. he
was confident the names of those who had
voted had not tnen been written down.
J. Ii. Jansen, also of the Eighth Precinct,
said he had valnly challenged six men who
had voted twice and had given the names of
men whom he knew to be absent from the
.tLtN Dl SICK III Utl.
=. Inspector OBIien Of the Seventh Precinct,
who was the leader in defending the charges
made by the protestants, acknowledged that
2l2 votes had been pOlled, and, very unfOT-
tunately for himself and his case, accounted
for the increase over the qualified number.
lt$5, by the rapid growth Of that portion OF
Tie city during the past two years.
The Chairman remarked that If few
thousand Republican voters had moved into
:the|Seventh Precinct in the last two years
they could not have voted at the election in
question as their names could not have been
on the list.
p. UBrien listened in silence, and then de-
elared that Hogan had brought in vehicles
TO the poll sixty men in bunch and wanted
fovote them for BeTgfeld. He recognized
the gang as suffers and Democrats and re-
fused to allow them to vote. That's the
whole kick" OBrien asserted; ''the box
was not stuffed, and to the best of my knowl-
edge only Republicans voted"
The Chairman then adjourned the eXami-
nation until this evening in order that De-
teGtiYe Barry and the officers OF election may
be present to give their testimony,