The morning call., 1894-11-04
DEEP LAID PLANS.
Bosses Scheme to Defeat
the People.
BURNS AND BUCKLEY UNITE.
Making Common Cause for the
Southern Pacific.
THEIR CITY COMBINATION TICKET
1t Is Distributed Among the Heelers
in Both the Old Political
Camps.
THEIR CITY COMBINATION TICKET

The last days Of the campaign are being
marked by frantic endeavors on the part
of The bosses TO offset the feeling of resent
ment and disgust which their conduct at
the primaries, in the conventions. at the
Registrars office and in the districts
during the past few weeks has occasiOned.
Burns and Buckley have invited their
forces to elect the men who would be
easily managed in official positions. Burns
with the Police Department and Buckley
and Rainey with the Fire Department
under their control exuect 10 elect Board
OF Supervisors and their legislative ticket.
The railroad is with them. Burns has
issued orders that all anti-railioad caDdi-
dates shall be knitted. He has threatened
the liQuCr-dealers that II they do not sup
port the railroad men their side entrances
shall be closed by his police. lie is moving
heaven and earth TO achieve success for his
employers, the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company. and his co-labore in that under
taking, Christopher A. Buckley, is render
ing valuable assistance.
The bosses want much besides the Su-
pervisors and the legislators. They have
combined their forces for the election of
the entire municipal ticket. They have
selected candidates irreS peclive of party
lines, the only requirement being that
they shall he men WHO will be subServient
to them. They fear both Ebert and Sutro
and have hit upon 0'DoEnell for Mayor
thinking him to he the least Of the evils.
The eX-COrOner has been greatly encOur-
aged by the announcement OF the CAM
paign ticker, which was published in yes
terday'S CALL. He is having daily
parades and Haunting banners and signs
attacking Mayor Ebert and AdoIph Sutro.
With the help of Buckley and Burns and
the railroad company O'DOnnell boasts
that he cannot now be beaten. The rail-
road Company has issued orders TO all it's
employees to vote for him. Burns has in
structed his police and his followers to
vote for ODonnell liz preference to Ebert,
whom he nominated in his nacked c0nven-
ton for the purpose of knitting him at the
last moment. Buckley DaS sacrificed
James II order To insure the defeat or
either of the candidates who are nimical
to the railroad. All this is the result OF
the visits Chris has been paying to the
officials of the railroad down at their
offices at Fourth and Townsend streets
and of the conference between Burns and
Buckley at the Baldwin Hotel. Ii was
arranged between them tnat iustruc-
tons should be Issued to the members of
the Fire Department, the time named
being Il o'clock last night. that they must
vote for ODonnell and the rest of the
candidates on the ticket which they have
named.
This plan has been laid with great
secrecy and not divuIged until it was
no longer possible to conceal it. It has
now become generally known and is dis
eussed all over the city. The suffers on
the rolls are TO help carry ii out if they
are not Iugged by the NOn-Partisan party
There is every prospect that they will be.
The Non-Partisans are stoutIy c0ntes ting
the right of the bosses TO hand over to the
railroad the entire municipal government,
and they are depending for support upon
the reputable citizens of San Francisco at
the polls next Tuesday.
The preliminary work in this direction
Is being aggresSively carried on. In Judge
Wallace's court the good fight is being
pressed upOn The common enemy and b.
fore the Election Commission everything
Is being done that is possible Burns
brother-ln-law, Al Evans, the Registrar, is
able by virtue Of his Office to render the
commission pOwerlesS in many things.
Yesterday Evans CD eff deputy, Ray Falk,
was asked II he had transferred certain
election officers, who had been appointed
in districts in which they did not live, back
to their own precincts, and replied that
a few changes had been made as previ-
ously directed by the board. He was told
to make the other transfers at once and
replied that the time was so short that il
could not be done. Then he was told to
transfer as many of them as he could. He
laughed and said ''all right" The trans
fers Will rot be made. The board issues
orders aud Evans and his men ignore
them, though there is a law that makes
this crime. This has been going on for
weeks and is going on now.
SO far as Burns and Evans have been
able to accom- plish it, the preparations for
the election have been made a farce. 1t
has been systematic united effort to de-
feat the will Of the people at the polls.
The Non-Partisans are confronted with
a new peril 1t is known that the rail-
road will attempt 10 buy up as many of
the precinct boards as possible, SO as to
accomplish the election Of their men by
fraudulent counting. The only way to
prevent this is TO have watchers in the
booths, and to arrest all officers who at
tempt fraud. The police cannot be de-
pended upon to make these arrests, so it is
proposed to have Deputy Sheriffs at the
polls. Yesterday it was ated that Sheriff
McDaGe would swear in a large num- Der
Of extra Deputies. At least two Deputies
are wanted al each precinct. A large
mum Der of private detectives wi be on
hand IN The bore of securing the rewards
offered by the NOn-Partisans for the arrest
and conviction of illegal voters. In spite
OF the Scheming of the bosses it is cou-
hdentiy expected that the suffers will be
prevented from getting in their votes.
lNDORSED ELLERT.