The morning call., 1892-10-30
THE DEMOCRATIC" SPLIT.
Another Victory for tho Long Section G
the Party.

tho Party.
Not satisfied with the abortive attempt
made before Judge SandeTson to have the
cold Democratic" party denied place on
the municipal ballot, the leaders of the Re-
organized Democrats had three sessions of
Judge Coffey's court to obtain the same
end
They again brought up their man Tobin.
who is a candidate for Justice OF the Peace
on their ticket. to complain that by reason
of the publishing Of the names of the candl-
dates OF the Old Democratic party for all
the officers, from Mayor to School Director,
with the name "Old Democratic" he would
be deprived Of some votes for the Office oil
Justice of the Peace.
lie claimed there was no such party as
the "Old Democratic" party in existence.
but that some Democrats who would other
wise have voted for him might vote for a
candidate for any Of the ffty-six vacancies.
believing they were voting Democratic
ticket.
Objection was taken to proceeding with
the matter at the early morning session as
the Registrar, who was made the defendant
in the case. had had no time to prepare an
answer 10 the long affidavit OF the COM
plalnants.
Judge McGlll appeared in the interest of
the Old Democrats as an intervenor and
stated that II was too late TO interfere with
the ticket.
In the afternoon more time was again
asked for and finally granted TIL o'clock,
when the court was crowded TO its fnll ca
pacity by anxious Democrats OF both cliques
or schiSms.
AS soon as the court opened Attorney
Long arose and asked that the lntervenors be
allowed to withdraw from their position,
but the court said the record was made.
Then Dorm moved for dismissal of the
whole proceedings on the ground that the
court had no jurisdiction.
The law specifically made the Registrar
the sole judge OF who should and should not
be placed on the ticket. His action was
final and could not be reviewed as there was
no appeal provided in the law. There
could be no other power under the law 10
make up the ticket except the Election COM
mission or the Registrar All differences
between the board and the Registrar had
been settled and the ballot prepared by the
Registrar had been approved, and there
could not be any further action taken. 1t
could not matter what error was made other
than a clerical one in this matter An error
of judgment on the part OF the Registrar
could not be reviewed by this court or any
other.
The motion was promptly denied and the
attorneys were ordered to file their answer
Before this was done Dorm moved to
strike out certain portions of the complaint
on the ground that there were redundant
and irrelevant.
Judge Coffey refused to grant the re-
quest
Then Dorm. and Hegger!y, who appeared
with him for the Registrar, filed their
ans wer.
This answer alleges among other matters
that Registrar Brown had already prepared
the official ballot and had published it n
The CALL on the oath of thsmonth; that
the official ballots were being prepared
al N al
That in fact many of them had already
been printed and it would be impossible TO
procure more paper in time for the election
on November s.; that the sample ballots
were also being printed and that it would
be impossible 10 get enough printed In time
IL any changes we're made.
II also alleged that the petition Of the
"Old Dem ocratic" party was q valid petit
ton, signed by the requisite number OF
names. and therefore was sufficient to war
rant him in placing both the names and the
designations on the ballot.
After the answer had been filed Dorm
again denied that the court had any juris-
diction in the matter. After this there was
q discussion on the question OF witnesses
being allowed TO remain in the courtroom.
Matt j. Sullivan, who appeared with A.
J. Clunie for the Recognized Democrats,
wanted to have all witnesses in the case ex-
cluded from the courtroom and this gave
rise to some trouble.
Dorm wanted to have the witnesses who
were attorneys for parties interested al
lowed to remain in the courtroom, but this
was not allowed.
The witnesses were sent to walk the cor
ridors, much to their disgust.
Registrar Brown was called first to iden-
tify the petitions on which he had acted in
placing the name and designation on the
register.
All the productions were of course OBJ
jected to and each time overruled.
There were fOrty-nine Of the petitions,
containing nearly 1900 names, and they were
received in evidence.
Notary Public McGill, before whom the
affidavits were all taken, identified them
and then f. A. 0COnner Of III Drumm
street was called and closely questioned as
to the method OF obtaining the signatures
on the petition he had himself certified to.
His evidence tended to show the genuine
ness Of the signatures, more than half OF
which had been personally obtained by him,
and the remainder by his brother and his
teamster.
Alta quarter to IL o'clock he left the stand
and an attempt was then made to show that
certain determinations In the petitions had
been made after the signatures had been
affixed.
1t had not proved successful when the
court decided that the agony should be post
poned until IL o'clock on Monday.