The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-29

srs that If Kelly's suffers attempt TO vote
they will be the means Of fattening some
ones pocket-boOk TO considerable extent.
For more than a week now the NOn-PaT-
ussn campaign committee has had the
question undef consideration, and at last It
has bit upon plan which, It is believed,
will either cause fraudulent voters to desist
or will land them where they belong, in
jail.
Tie whole matter has been kept very
quiet, and twas not intended to allow the
secret 20 leak cut, but where so many were
Involved 1t IS almost a matter OF impossi-
bilijy 70 prevent al -iDtImation, at least,
from reaching the outside MoTld.
In fact the NOn-Partisan leaders did all
possible 10 hush the matter up, and even
when the plan had been fully developed
and decided upon In executive session yes
terday afternoon they were inclined al first
70 eyade a definite statement.
Il was finally. admitted, however, that a
plan had been perfected by means of which
the suffers were TO be entrapped. and
enough OF the details were secured to show
that the plan is a most excellent one and
easy to carry out
How is ii to be done? Nothing easier In
the world when you know how. and all
that is needed is sufficient number Of
active. alert men, each armed with detec-
tive camera.
By this means the suspected suffer can
be photographed on the spot. and his pic
tuTe studied at leisure.
But is II practicable?" asks some doubt
Ing Thomas, who is always more ready to
eriticise than to act.
Nothing palmer in the world, and the
ease with which II can all be done is just
what recommends the plan TO those who
know anything about the practical work
ings of politics.
To secure the requisite number of cameras
has been the only obstacle in the way, but
this difficulty has been overcome and all
arrangements made.
The cameras will be forthcoming, and al
comparatively small cost to the commit
tee.
For such instruments 81 80 each will be
paid, and they may be returned, so that the
cost of the use of each camera will not ex-
ceed 81 at the outside limit. Some five OF
six hundred will be placed in the hands of
the men employed to use them, and in the
worst districts as many as two or even three
men will be on hand.
will take pictures as fast as one can screw
the roll around and snap the button. In all
II takes about thirty seconds to prepare the
camera for al instantaneous negative.
These negatives are taken on plates or
films, and as many printed copies as desired
may be taken from each. Enlargements
can be made so as to show each face dis
tinctly and recognizably.
Said a prOmipant
Partisans last night: Our plans are all
made, and if any Of Kelly's suffers attempt
TO vote we will land them in jail, sure as
fate.
by careful Investigation we have ascer-
tained just where the greatest amount of
stufiing has been done, and in those pre-
cinets the cameras will come into play and
do the work. We viii carefully guard
every polling-place, and every man who is
suspected of being a suffer will have the
button pressed on him.
'This can be done without the suffers
knowledge, and the result will be that we
will be enabled to have frst-class rogues'
gallery at our command.
GAS for the rest nothing could be palmer
or more simple. When the photographs
have been taken the negatives will be de-
velODed at once and compared. Attached
to each will be the name and address OF the
suspected voter.
when compared, II two photographs OF
the same man are found 1t will mean SIM
ely that be has voted twice, and the proof
will be so plain that he cannot escape it,
and 1t will be but little trouble then to land
him In jail and convict him.
Under this system there can be no possl-
Dillty OF escape for guilty man, and the