The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-02

That after the commencement OF registration
OF voters in the office of said Registrar, and be-
TO re the delivery 10 SAID Registrar OF The pre-
cinct registers by the precinct boards OF regis
tration, all of the above named defendants. ex-
cepting said Registrar, applied for registration
in said precinct registers and were enrolled and
registered as electors and voters OF said city
aud county.
That none OF said defendants is an elector of
said, city and county, or entitled to registration
on the precinct registers, or any precinct reg
lister of said city and county. aud names OF all
of said defendants have been wrOngfully and
illegally entered on said precinct registers.
That before the commencement OF this &C
ton plaintiff demanded OF said Registrar OF
Voters and the Board of Election Commission.
ers OF said city and county that they cancel or
cause TO be cancelled The entries of the names
OF said defendants on said precinct registers;
but said Registrar and SAID Board OF Election
Commissioners refused, and ever since said de-
mand was made have refused 10 cancel or
cause to be Cancelled the entries of said names,
or the entry Of any name whatever.
Wherefore, plaintiff prays Judgment that the
entries of the names of said defendaDIs.On The
precinct registers Of said city ana county were
illegally made, and that said entries be can
celed.
In addition TO the three pages of fools
cap forming the complaint there are about
forty closely printed pages containing the
title of the suit. That is. there are 5000
persons named as defendants with Regis
trar Evans.
But this civil suit does not end the task
| now well begun. The determined COM
mittees are as busy as when they we're
searching the register and combating
against the corruption which has made the
Registrars Office notorious.
| There are 5000 blank warrants at the
Democratic State Central Committee
rooms. and a large staff of clerks are busy
| filing them out with names of suffers.
These warrants will be signed by police
! judges and served wherever the suffers
! can be found before election day. Ii ser
vice is not possible before Tuesday the
warrants will he put into the hands of
policemen for arrest of defendants named
therein when suffers attempt to vote. AT
every precinct one of StilwelPs men. with
a copy of the roll on which suffers are
marked, will see that the suffers are iden-
| tilted. On this Identification the police
! man will have nothing TO do but arrest the
suffer.
There is no bluff about this" said
Andy Clunie. That report has been
started to niurs our fight for clean elec-
tions. But it cuts no figure with us. We
have gone about this thing in earnest,
mind you, not Democrats alone. but Non
Partisans as we'll Mr.. LIE Breton has
worked harder on it than a man can be-
! lieve, and Mr. O'Farrell has also done all
one could do. The Democratic committee
has employed an able detective and
thrown itself into this tight.
you see those piles ef warrants" he
continued. pointing 10 bundles of criminal
! warrants on the floor and ables. "These
are for the suffers. Every one OF them
! will be filed out and sworn TO before a
Police Judge and served before election if
at all possible. The remainder not served
before that date Will be held by policemen
at the polls. We propose to arrest every
scOnndrel we catch attempting to vote as
suffer,
Imagine 5000 names, and we have not
reached the bottom yet. We find them
registered in such places as the Baldwin
| pariOrs, storerOoms and employers quar-
tiers. What can people expect when such
a state of affairs is permitted to occur in
hotel like the Baldwin? Nothing can be
done except TO show Registrar Evans up
to The public gsZs and punish the gang of
stuffers.
ANY man who thinks this is a bluff let
him keep his eye on us. He will be
egregiously mistaken"
An answer to the complaint was pre-
pared on behalf of Registrar Evans ct al.
BY Attorneys Delmas and ShortIidge last
night. Ii will be filed with the County
! Clerk today.
In his answer Evans denies that any
person whose name is registered on the
precinct regis tiers is not an elector, or lot
entitled 10 vote. he will find it difficult TO
sustain these claims W hen asked for an
explanation of such cases as the gentle
men who live in the Baldwin Hotel
parlors. adjoining Colonel Burns political
headquarters, or. indeed. the numerous
fragrant cases lready brought under his
attention. The Democratic State Central
Committee and the Citizens Municipal
| Non-Partisan Committee are ready to en-
tighten Registrar Evans on the subject at
any time.
The answer is as follows:
Now comes fired j. Evans. Registrar of
Voters for the city and county OF san Fran
cisco. and, answering the complaint of plaintiff
on file erein, says:
He admits that he is now and at all times In
the complaint mere in mentioned has been the
duly appointed, qualified and acting Registrar
OF Voters for said city and county OF San Fran.
cisco.
lie denies that any person whose name Is
registered on the precinct registers or on any
precinct re gister OF SAID city and county is moi
an elector or said city and county, or is not right
fully and legally en- cred on said precinct regis
ters or register. no he AYERS that all person:
whose names ar registered on the precinct reg
listers or on any precinct register of said city
ana county are electors OF said city anC
county and aIe rightfully and legally entered
on said precinct regi sters or register.
BE denies mat before The commencement O.
this action. Or at any time. plaintiff demanded
OF said Registrar OF Voters or OF the Board o
Election Com missioners CT said city and count,
that they, or any either Of them. cancel Of
cause to be Cancelled the entries OF The name,
or the entry of any name of the defendant:
herein, or any OF them, on said precinct regis
tiers or on any precinct register.
Wherefore defendant prays TO be hence dis
missed without delay.
TESTIMONIAL CONCERT.