The herald., 1894-10-28

your life he's all right. Pll gamble
that his dudes will do as good work as
de gang. A fellah wild a good scar is
worth his weight in soads this year. Ali
he has to do when he's challenged ID to
chow up his marks and friend in the
crowd sweare he rooms in de same
shanty, and de trick is done. Why.
guy with one eye and good front can
register in two.thirds Of de precincts
and Le "dark lamp" ia a sure shot when
it comes to identification.
DE more respectable the neighbor-
hood the easier it works, cause de long
hairs don't mix up like the Tar fiatters.
"One-eyed" Wallace, who works in
restaurant on Market street, has been
riding up and down de Haight street
line for two months, and buying cigars
and booze in every grocery store in de
Western addition to get acquainted wild
de people in the different precincts, go
day will recognize him when he looms
up in de voting booth. Higgins origin
ated that scheme, and amt it dandy Z"
Martin grew enthusiastic when he
reached this point and ordered round
of LIQUID refreshments for the house.
He tnen launched out into q detailed
description of how the register down
here had been wadded mp. He grew
confidential under the genial influence
OF the Main street tipple and informed
his admirers that 20 men would work
the majority of the As precincts under
instructions from headquarters, and
that Pasadena and Pomona were dead
easy graft" to work because 30 many
strangers were coming in. All that was
needed was somebody to vouch for
them, which was an easy matter with
McLachlan's friends in every precinct.
Not more than one in twenty would be
challenged anyhow. as the ''one-
lungers" were not much on politics.
Then new scheme, which had been
evolved by the "kernel's" agents to
guarantee the delivery of the goods, was
highly eulogized by Expert Masters.
'Yer see, Martin, rubber stamp
man has been engaged to turn out a
wagon load of rubber stamps like dose
in de voting boxes. except dat when de
cross il special mark (dat will show
when de vote is oounted) is made into
de cross." King McManus, we will say,
has a special mark on hia stamps.
"His confidential workers give de guy
who has been fixed stamp, and be
goes into do box. stamps his ballot.
comes out and gives de worker back de
stamp, gets a check and reports as soon
as de ballots is counted for hia stuff.
De clerk of de board keeps tally of de
kings private marks and reports to de
king how many is there.
DE majority OF de guys who makes
de agreement lives up to it, and II some
few fall down it don't matter much, and
dey all gets de stuff.
"De scheme is only worked in few of
de precincts, but de average OF 25 in
each precinct does de business and de
kernel keeps his word to Estee as to de
majority. One OF de stamps l see in de
city had one arm Of de cross left off,
which made de ballot to look as dough
de stamp didn't work, but de intention OF
counting OF de vote. Yer can bet yer
sweet life de kernel is in to win dis heat
and money is no object.
"You fellaha down here is chumps
and the Democrats amt on ~ de fact
dat dey is getting work in dc regstra-
tion.
''Ds only thing l am afraid Of is dat
de kernels agents down in dis burgh ia
overplayin' de hand-9000 new names is
corkin' big work to 60 up against, but
Higgins and Lindley say it will 90 all
right as dey control de machinery.
me judgment was for 5000, but /
was bowled out by Dan and de rest of
'em. Dan has had de life worried out
of him by Captain Simpson, Major
Androus. Billy Arthur, Hervey Lindley.
Jim McLachlan and Charley Webber
eI writin' up for stuff to uee in de CAM
paign and for workers to put de regis
tration through widout hitch.
'Oily Higgins and Dan had big rag
chewin' over de matter and | was
checked through on pass to consult
wild de boys down here. De judgment
ia dat de gang down here is out for de
stuff and dat de kernel must ship down
q dozen or so of de true business boys
to study de map of de country, and dey
will do de trick of herding de local guys
in proper shape. Yer see, der burgh ia
ripe fer good work and Dan III see yer
get it," AT this point Mr.. Masters
ordered cocktails for all hands and sat
in sleepy meditation OF the good work to
be done On November g. When the
liquid refreshment was brought in he
gathered himself together with consider
able effort and offered toast to ''ds ker-
nelaand del gang" which his admirers
drank with great gusto. He then
made snxious inquiry as to where
he could find guy named Tom Mott
who was dead next" to de kernel and
Bill Stowe. Mr.. Masters then made an
anxious search through his various
pockets for letter which he said Bill
Stowe had given him to hand to Mr..
Mott
With an air OF drunken mystery Mr..
Masters informed his friends that it was
struotions to make some kind OF deal
with Bowman, de Peoples party man, as