The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-09
COUNTED HIM OUT
McNab Defeated by Order
of the Bosses.
MADE HIM A SPECIAL MARK.
Wholesale Frauds in a Large
Number of Precincts.
HIM A SPECIAL MARK.
URGED TO DEMAND A RECOUNT.
incomplete Returns Made to the
Registrar-One Man Stole
Bundle of Ballots.

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Chris Buckley can no more resist the al
lurements of political corruption than flies
the sweetened morsel. Scare him off and
he buzzes around until he thinks lie will
act be killed outright if he alights again
and zip-he's back on the putrid mass
again Like that other creature that fat
tens upon filth he proves that sight is not
the sense that attracts. BE scents the
loathsOme object farther than any eye
could see though it had the vision of an
eagle, and straight as the crow flies he
speeds back to gorge once more.
That Is why he made his appearance on
wednesday night among the booths south
OF Market street, where his minions and
those of Dan Burns were lowering over the
sacred ballots of the people.
Chris Buckley, the once frightened vul-
ture, descended once again upon his Pro-
metheus. He took another parasite along
with him, and together they went from one
place TO another and INDUCED their pro-
pensities. He and Maurice Schmitt went
from booth to booth and issued their in
structiOnS to the harpies Of the election.
They ordered that the ticket OF the com
blme be counted in at all hazards. By
hazards Buckley meant those which might
be incurred by the men who were doing
his bidding. He himself doesn't like risks
of personal nature. He fl LES away when
danger approaches bis person, but he is a
lion Of bravery when il comes to ordering
others to run the RI Ks of the law.
Well, he and Schmitt drove around in
their buggy, and when morning came GER
tain candidates had been counted out.
Those candidates were the ones who
opposed the meu selected to fill the city
offices bv Burns and Buckley. McNab
the Non-Partisan candidate for Sheriff,
was the especially marked victim of this
unholy collision. Whatever might happen
he must be defeated, Buckley and Schmitt
told The election officers. and the instruc-
tions have been carried out to the letter.
McNab, in ali probability. was elected, but
the returns show that Whelan. who was
on the combine ticket, which was pub
lished before the election. has been given
the highest number of votes.
So palpable has this fraud been that
Yesterday there was a great deal If talk of
a contest Mr.. McNab does not care to 90
w ob1 iboiC tiOuUiO dUOuI Tue DldlleT. lie
was the choice of the respecta bic people of
the city, and he made an open, honest and
energetic fight for the pfIZa. He won II
fairly and squarely, if at all, but the bosses
have stepped in and said be shall not have
ii. and, If the people are content to submit,
he is abundant!y able TO let the matter 90.
But the people DO not seem to be so in
cllned. Many solid men urged Mr.. McNab
yesterday to make a con est and a recount
may result. In many of The precincts the
names Of candidates were not called while
the vote was being counted, the callers
announcing the ballot numbers instead.
This was contrary to the election law,
which provides that the names shall be
called, the evident object being that
watchers may be the better able 10 detect
fraud. 1t is asserted that in half the pre-
cincts of the city the law was violated in
this respect, and that that fact alone would
warrant the Election Commissioners in or
derlng the votes cOunted over again. If
this should be done i: would readily show
several candidates VINO ere now on the list
of the defeated would have been elected
il the glazing frauds that are known to
have been perpetrated had been pre-
vented. An effort will be made to induce
The commission TO take this step.
During the counting yesterday men en-
ployed by the newspapers to bring in
election returns reported 10 their respec-
tive Offices that a systematic attempt was
being made to count McNab out in favor
of Whelsn. Votes were being taken from
Ruddick and McNab and given to Whelap.
the candidate of the united bosses. When
he nf
of the booths the vote was called off bv
numbers. In the Tenth Precinct of the
Thirty 'ourth District the municipal taIlv
sheet calls for $50 votes, while the election
officers had only 224 municipal ballots.
although they had sent out to the Regis.
trar's office $50 State election ballots. This
is n fair presum Dtion of fraud, as there
should have been as many city ballots a.
State, and it is quite evident that ten mn
nicipal ballots had been made awav with
in some way.
In the booth on Washin gton street. above
KearDy, an election officer was seen to put
a bundle OF ballots under his coat and
walk off with them when relieved by one
Of the other officers.
In the Western Addition an election
officer told some Democrats that che Off
GERS were counting out McNab. The Dem
ocrats to whom be impaired this infor-
nation were interested only in the State
fight. and did not approve OF the methods
which the local Democracy was pursuing,
They told the officer that he ought to he
arrested. and they considered it no part f
their duty to Ike p the matter secret It il
more than probable that this matter will
be investigated.