The morning call., 1894-06-03
THE DELEGATES.
Burns Claims a Rouslng
Victory.
CLEAN SWEEP OF THE CITY.
Kelly and Crinmins Made q
Poor Showing.
SOME CONFLICTS AT TIE POLLS.
A Generally Quiet Election With
Rowdyisni in a Few Districts.
The Returns.

Martin Kelly and Phil Crimmins are no
longer appreciable quantities in Republi-
can politics. They are not a condition,
and are hardly available as a theory. 1t
would take steam shovel 10 dig them out
of the hole IN which they were buried at
the primary elections yesterday. Dan
Burns swept the city. and captured every
thing in sight. The twin bosses, deserted
by those who were most indebted to them.
found their only companions at the close
of the polls in the ghosts of their former
greatness.
Taken altogether the primaries were the
Quetest in years. The only districts in
which there was any contention of magni-
tude were the Twenty-egnth ana Twenty
ninth (the former being kelly'S and the
latter Crmmins0. Thirty-frst, Thirty
fourth. Thirty fifth. Thirty seventh,
Thirty-eighth and Fortieth districts.
The fight in the latter was not between
the lly-Crimmins faction and the Burns
and Spreckels combination, but was an
Internal contest of the latter. both con-
testaDts being Burns men, but "forninst"
each other. The leaders were Jesse
Marks on the one side and Captain Young
On the other. A report spread early in the
day that Marks had been shot, but that
was simply a canard spread By some seu-
sation-loyng person and had no founda-
ton whatever. In the other districts, with
the exception of the Twenty-eighlh and
TWenty-ninth, the opposition was not very
strong. II Obtained in the forenoon for a
short time after the polls opened and
dWindled away to nothing. II was an
. opposition without heart or hope. In fact
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Minis, realizing their impotency as a guam
tlty against the BuTnS-Spreckels oTganiZa-
ton, had concentTa ted their forts in their
own districts, leaving the others 20 take
care of themselves. BY carrying these
they would secure sixteen delegates to the
State convention, a handy number, which
would enable ia EN- to decker with the out
of-towD delegates and thus force a reOr-
ganlZatiOn from the other side. But even
in their own districts their hopes were
dashed TO the ground early in the day.
rights occurred here al the different poll
ing-places. but the Kelly forces we're not
en- husiaStic in resisting The strong force
Of police which was detailed at each poll
lng-place. In fact, the police were a marked
feature Of The election. They we're pro-
mlScuOuSly numerous. They had their
service clubs on also. and at places where
IN past primaries one was deemed suffi-
clent, and he would keep several hundred
yards away, there were two and three and
sometimes more OF the blue-cOated Off
Gals, and they kept close to the ballot-bOx
and stopped incipient rows with highly
Gem mendable alacrity. The disgruntled
faction claimed that wholesale repeating
was the order OF the day, This was
especially asserted in the Kelly and Grim
mius districts.
In the Twenty-eighth, as the night drew
on, feeling was high. In the first polling
place it was found impossible to
count the votes Threats were freely
made of cleaning out the official
outfit ana capturing the ballOt-box by the
Kelly-CTimmins men. Word was sent to
--ihs County Committee headquarters and
D. ). Dorm decided TO have the whole
outfit taken up TO headquarters. Under
escort of q body of police, Judges, clerks
and inspectors were taken TO the Baldwin
Annex, and there, in a room alongside the
campaign committee headquarters, with a
secure guard of police to keep out in
-Jruders, the ballots were counted. The
sYmpathiZers Of Kelly and Crimmins
claimed last night that they would have
the two districts-Twenty eighth and
Twenty D.nth-thrOwn out on the ground
of fraud. a fight will possibly be made
Oh this head.
There were few firemen to be seen
around yesterday, though some got in their
deadly work.
The vote boiled was generally very
heavy, and feature of the election was
the number of business men who visited
the polls and dropped their ballots there
In the Western Addition, Mission and
other residence districts this was espe-
cially noticeable and caused considerable
comment and a great deal of self-congratu-
lauon on the part OF those Republicans
opposed to the Kelly CrImmlns crowd
The Burns men cited it a an instance of
the standing Of their leaders in the COM
munity and the bright prospect for pure
State election.
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himself. When seen last evening he was
in high good humor. 1--WE have swept the
town." he said, land that is about all
there is to say of it. We have scored a
great victory for honest politics and pure
elections. Ii has been a N ost creditable
primary election, too. there being no dis
'tuTbance In any precinct anywhere. The
" better classes turned out Ia vote in larger
nun bers than ever before, and this is a
good sign"
1t seemed a general belief that the re-
euit OF the primaries is fatal TO the future
ton OF their friends is VarlouSly explained,
but the real reason seems to be that Burns
had captured the officials Mt the polling
places and had previously made his posi-
tlon so certain that the KelIy-Crimmins
men deserted their old leaders as the rats
desert a sinking ship.
The headquarters at the Baldwin and
the campaign committee headquarters In
the annex presented lively scene last
night. The rooms were crowded with
politicians Of every grade. Streams of
men passed in and out but were not
allowed to linger in the corridors. Step
right inside, gentlemen; you cant stand in
=: the Corridors" was the constant cry of
spielers placed at various points of want
age. Ia the annex police with service
ciubS were scattered thickly around and
every few minutes officials from some pre-
cinct arrived under a convoy of police
WIN the ballots Of the precincts in en-
Velopes. The committee met after 9 o'clock
IN tAe evening, when the envelopes were
known. '''N''J Al""o
THE RETURNS.