The morning call., 1894-10-23

and other paraphernalia brought In by the
officers IL they declined to surrender the
books. and Troy said. "Throw the things
in the corner them" Ably assisted by his
chief clerk. George Lewis. Evans, by brow
beaiDg and intimidation, succeeded IN
getting nineteen books. but the number is
so small that duplicate lists can be readily
made from the lists in the hands of the
Democratic County Committee.
A. j. Clunie, who has charge of the
work of canvassing the city. Is fully
aroused, aud whatever may be said OF him
Andy is persistent and energetic he de-
clares that the most thorough canvass
shall be made, and that with the assistance
of the Election Commission the rolls shall
be cleansed as they never were before. He
has M ade proposal to the Non-Par.san
committee to act in conjunction with ii,
and the two forces will be able to scour
every nook and corner of the city where
suffer may be harbored.
Clunie expects to fill the jails with
suffers. He said yesterday: 81 am going
to Gil every man VINO Is found to be i'm
properly registered, and In every case
where there is evidence of an intention TO
vote improperly am going to have the
offender arrested. l shall not RELY on the
police to help me. III 60 before Judge
Wallace and get out warrants, and I'll
have them served by deputies from the
Sberiff's Office. There is nothing that can
pTtt0BL US lIOU HdtlUB u CledD TUii cACe Hb
dilat0ry tactics on the part of the Election
Commissioners, which / 40 not apprehend.
They are all Democrats except Mayor
Eilert and l think they will all do the
right thing. Mayor Ellert. of course, will
not countenance suffers"
So it's going TO be bad year for suffers,
Notwithstanding the course that has been
pursued by Mr.. Burns bro ther-in-law,
Registrar Evans.
That there will be plenty OF work Tor
Clunle and the canvassers to do there Is
not the slightest doubt. 1t is estimated by
men who have been watching The matter
very closely that there are AGO suffers IN
the Tweniy-fourtb Senatorial District who
hope TO vote for j. h. Mahoney. Ii this
is an accurate computation there will be
400 suffers in the City Prison ere many
days. But it is more than probable that
many of these men are cOioniZers, In which
| event care will be taken to prevent them
from voting anywhere else in the city.
Even with them there is nc likelihood that
| Mahoney can be elected.
Many firemen are said to have registered
| in two or more places. They stop part OF
the time at the englne-hOuse, and IL Is
! charged that some of them have registered
| in the district in which the engiD e-house
| to which they are attached is located and
also at their residences. But this is an
old trick, which will not escape the vigil
| aDce of the watchers.
| Four Chinese have been registered in the
| Sixteenth Precinct OF the FUrIy-third Dis
trict, where Jerry Mahoney is running for
! the Senate.
A big force of Dem ocra tic clerks were at
work in the California Hotel last night.
| The precinct officers had been cut during
| the day canvasSing for Illegal voters, aud
| the ground gone over afforded rich har-
vesi. One man brought in from the First
! Precinct of the Fortv-second District Zone
1 IL III IL
| represent in the Senate) twenty-five names,
the owners OF which did not live at the
| houses given as the residences of the
w6uld-be voters. This precinct officer is a
! good clerk and an intelligent man. He
says that he made careful canvass and
! was grossly insulted for his pains, but that
| he definitely ascertained that The men on
lis list did not live at the places given in
the roll opposite their names. He worked
all day Sunday and yesterday, and was
| one of the few who had completed theiI
precincts.
The Democrats are experiencing great
difficulty owing to the fact that many OF
| the officers are not npetent and cannot
| be made TO understand their duties.
Some of them reported last night that
the Registrar bad not provided them with
blanks required By law for citing suspect
| ed suffers TO appear before The commission.
/ The law makes it compulsory ID use cer-
| tain IOTD, anu also makes III Que Oh the
! duties Of the Registrar to furnish these To
the precinct officers. The failure Of Regis
trar Evans TO comply with this require
ment is in line with his consistent effort tc
obstruct any attempt at purging OF the
| stuffed rolls. But in this, too. he will be
defeated. Blanks meeting the provision S
of the law will be printed and given to
! the officers.
1t is now said that the total registration
will reach 10000, which exceeds the regis
| tration of Two years ago, when il was
thought that the city was as thoroughly
stuffed as it could well be. The grosSest
ignorance was displayed bv some of the
suffers. Some OF them could not Wi
legibly, and one man who registered il
the Fortleth District under the name Of
| Ferguson spelled 1t Fearga-0n. though his
pronunciation was plainly Ferguson.
S. Jacobs has suggested to the Registrar
tallysheet which, if adopted. woult
greatly facilitate the work OF the cleIk k.
in casting up after the close Of the poll
On election day.