The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-03
NINETEEN ARE DISCOVERED.
WALLACE HEARS TESTIMONY.

the guilty will have writhed and wrlggled
in vain to escape the clutch of its iron
hand. The writing is upon the wall; the
Damoclean sword is gittering for fall;
prison doors are yawning wide and the
whip of justice win whistle through the
air to leave cotton stripes on the shlverlng
backs of the evlly inclined.
There is woe in the ranks of the bosses!
Their crimes have found them out! The
judicial investigation into alleged stuffing
of the registry lists of the city and county
of San Francisco, covering only two hours
SO far, has proved beyond the shadaw of
a doubt that
The alterations are true!
When the investigation shall have been
finished and the full enormity of the frauds
attempted shall have been discovered it
will also be patent beyond the shadow of
q doubt that
Some people are ripe for the San Quen-
tin plueking!
The same public-spirited citizens
have been instrumental in bringing about
the present judicial inquiry will undoubt-
edly sse that the guilty are punished.
For all of which satisfactory state Of
affairs the honest, representative citizens
be happy. They can see the file of the
Goerator cutting through one more shackle
Of the enslaved icipaIty. and they are
only awaiting election day to see her rise
to espousal with good government.
When Charles j. Stilwsll. on behalf of
the Non-Partisan and Democratic commit
tees Of this city. flied COMPLAINT Thursday
afternoon charging that 6000 names had
been fraudnlentIy entered on the register
asking that Registrar Evans be compelled 10
cancel them, the bosses raised the cry tb lat
IL was bluff. They caused it to be pro-
claimed everywhere that the Non-Partisan
and Democratic committees were merel y
making an anti-campaign play to iufiuen CT
voters. The fact OF the matter is they
probably imagined that thatwas all il was.
OF course the bosses were pretty certain
in their own minds that there were stuff
ers on the register, and they probably were
Of the belief that these suffers woult be
used TO their advantage. But things had
gone along so smoothly for them that they
couldn't bring themselves to think for a
moment of the possibility of the suffers
being really located, or of the remOter
contingency that they might be thrown out
The bosses have discovered now that
they were mistaken in a number of things.
In the first place they know thai if the
complaint was bluff. il. to use another
poker term, was bluff that stuck. They
know that while the attorneys examined
only one witness before Judge Wallace
yesterday afternoon concerning only one
hotel of the many used for alleged stuffing
PURPOSES most remarkable state OF affair.
was found to exist. From the testimony
of the landlord of that hotel, zorro borated
by the entries on the register of his guests,
but five men were entitled to have their
names entered upon the Great Register Of
the city and county of San Francisco
only that number having resided there
continuously for the past thirty days.
This hotel Is al % Sacramento street. and
is conducted by John c. Wendt. The
names of those entitled to register, from
tbe'testimony, are:
c. lngard.
G. D. Anderson.
L. Botanni.
John C. Wendt.
i. Larsen.
Yet, on the registry lists of Registrar
Evans. the names OF just twenty-four per-
sons are enrolled a s being entitled to exer-
else the fran chise with the hotel at % Sac
ramento street as their base of operation
They are:
l.. E. Atwater, c. Q. Andersen, Alfred
Anderson, F. Berlie. c. Brown, NJ. Bo
tauni, j. Fisher, II. r. Fredrickson. C.
Hermann, L. Hansen, 7. Jackson, {. Mil
Ter. j. MORN, F. a. Nelson, J. Phillips, j
Palmer, f. Powell, c. E. Peterson, j.
Roland, T. Schultz. o. Schrecknck, j. NJ
Thomas, J. c. Wendt and j. n. Wilkens.
1t was undoubtedly surprise TO the at
torneys for Registrar Evans, for the bosses
and for Registrar Evans himself, who il
brother-in-law to one of the bosses, tha
the complainant succeeded in getting thus
far. They really didn't appear to be able
10 understand it at all last night. They
appeared dazed, listless. knocked out, as il
we're They certainly never expected it
Up till 2:3o o'clock yesterday afternoon
they worked solely and entirely on The
superstition that the complaint was bluff
and that the Non-P Partisan and Democratic
committees were the buffers.
Bright and early yesterday morning San
Sno rtrldge, who Is a member of the firm
of attorneys representing Registrar Evan.
and the 5000 unknown whose identity will
shortly be revealed, waited gently int
the City Hall. he daugled manuscript,
from dainty blue ribbon and smiled tina,
smile as he hastened to the clerks office
The manuscript was the answer of Evans
to the complaint of Stillwell, COPY of
which was printed yesterday.
He filed it shortly after 10 o'clock. Il
was supposed to be a master-stroke in.
tended TO give the coup de grace to what
was considered to be a weak bluff on the
part of the enemy. 1t was weak, of course
sort of, to use more poker terms, a two
deuce raise to a bobtall flush At 9 q
o'clock they found that the boblail was
loaded with joker which went cut ant
slash, and there they were.
There is little doubt now but that Regis.
trar Evans and his attorneys went on tn
supposition that, before the complainant
could proceed. they would have to sum
mon each and every one of the 5000 de
PENDANTS. and that as he would be utterl
unable to do that, as the 5000 names wer
entirely fictitious names placed on tn
register for peculiar uses, the complain
would be thrown out of court. Whs the
or not this was the case the answer wa
fled and Registrar Evans and his alto T
neys gave it out that they would be i
court to see how long the bluff would last
This prompt filing of the answer and tn
agreement to appear in court at 2 o'clocl
before Judge Wallace was just what Den
MS Spencer, Joseph Nougues and AndrsN