The morning call., 1894-11-08
AN OPEN STEAL.
NOn=PartiSanS Excluded
From the Polls.
WHILE THE HEELERS WORK.
Chris Buckley Superintends the
Shameless Job.
McNAB oUTRAGEoUSLY ROBBED
The Only Hope Now Is That the
Thieves May Be Punished
by the Courts.


Republican candidates could be defeated
by careful watching and the throwing of
sl possible safeguards around the election
booths.
To stop frauds in 293 precincts. in which
the diabolicsl ingenuity of well-tTained
heelers was being taxed to its utmost lin
its in connecting schemes to defeat the
will of the honest voters, proved task
10 which the hastily organized Non-Par-
tisan party was By DO means equal. The
booths in a large number of precincts were
left uncovered during the early part of the
day, and the counting went forward just
as the servants of the bosses wi he'd it.
Watchers of the Non-Partisans, worn
out by their vigil of twenty-four hours,
we're compelled to 60 home. and there
were no men TO fill their places at numer-
Gus polling-places. By the time the man
ayers had secured other men the complex
ioa of the election had changed. 1t doesn't
take a Republican ward-heeer a week to
stuff a ballot-box, and this interregnum
of the Non-Pariisan guards was amply
sufficient for all purposes. The men who
had been leading were found to have fallen
behind, and the ground they had lost could
not be recovered.
Those guards who had been on duty
went to headquarters and reported that
they had been excluded from the booths.
Others who were sent cut came back and
said they could not get in. They were asked
If they had shown their permits issued by
the Mayor and Registrar, and they re-
piled that no attention was paid to the
cards. They were simply told that they
could not come in. In cases of this sort
the Non-Partisans had to send four or FIVE
good men 10 induce the precinct officers
to admit the watchers.
The experiences Of the day showed that
the interruptions tools of INSCRIPTIONS
men are not to be kept from doing their
work by the ordinary processes known to
ward politics. They taught the business
men that the city has passed beyond the
stage where ordinary measures suffice to
prevent fraud, and that if the people
desire far expression Of their desires they
must make the law. A prominent Nom
Partisan said yesterday:
There is DO use in trying to stop them
this way. Our only hope now is that we
may be able to do something In the
courts. If we can send large batch of
suffers and counters to San Quentin this
lliDo We " III udNo W tEUuUIe III LU6
We hope to get hold of some of the in
stigators of these frauds and make a
shining example of them. There are
several well-known men in this city who
have put these parasites up to the work
that has been done, and they would do the
State a great deal of good in San Quentin.
That is the only way see Of purifying
politics in San Francisco"
This is the universal eminent among
the better classes, and it is conceded that
there never was a better time to begin,
nor fairer opportunity than the pres
ent
In the ely yesterday the election of
Budd distracted much attention from the
local contest. The Democrats declare
they expected ii, but admit that they were
not prepared for so easy a victory. At
the State headquarters they claimed moth
ing up to the day of election, only saving
that they hoped to win and thought they
would. The result has surpassed their
expectations, and they are now exultant
In marked contrast has been the conduct
of the men down at the State head1uar-
tiers of the Republicans, and very different
is their present frame of mind. Before
election they owned the EARTH Boss
Burns with cigar in his mouth and his
hat little 10 one side and little down
over the eye was the Quintessence of COM
placent dissatisfaction. With him all
talk about the probable outcome was
boredom. He had the State in sling.
Not particle OF doubt about it. Estee
was bound to win by anywhere between
10000 and 10000 votes. Anybody who
doubted simply didn't know anything about
politics. That was all. He had men
about him who inflated him with this sort
of knowledge, and some people began to
think that Burns and his sub-managers
knew everything. Now, they think dif-
ferently. One irreverent individual was
heard to sag last night: ''Pe0ple thought
Dan Burns was a political thoroughbred.
Now they think he's skate"
And Jake Steppacher, the boss head
assistant! What revelation it is to him
to find that he isn't political Solomon
Jake has lived off the Republican State
Committee for 10! these many years, and
many people, himself among the number
thought that he, if NJ other, could tell just
how the people were going 10 vote.
Anywhere between $4,000 and 25. 600
plurality" Jake put the result in favor of
fatal Tuesday be has been sore; oh. so
sore. 1t is small wonder that Dan Burns
was fooled with such men as he had around
him-men who were pulled up with con-
ceit, and who have now shrunk like
pricked bubbles.
Much regret is expressed that M. M.
Estee should meet with another defeat.
He has deserved well of his party, and be
didn't deserve to be saddled with Dan
Burns dead weight and hurt by Stop
pacher's bungliDg.
The Sutro vote was another surprise to
the political wiseacres. They thought that
the bosses and the railroad could elect
whom they chose-even O'D0nnell. The
result shows that the combination was an
unpalatable one-a pill that the public
could not swallow. Treachery at the last
moment did not pay. Boss Burns nomi-
mated Ebert against his own will, and tried
to defeat him on the eve of election.
Mayor Ebert says he has positive informa-
ton that Burns voted against him. Well.
he succeeded in knitting Ebert and lost his
own point.
Last night the crooked work went
forward with accelerated speed. South OF
Market street the Democratic election Of
fcers did pretty much as they liked. In
the Sixteenth Precinct Of the Thirty first
District some of the candidates who OPP