The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-01
LAW OVERTURNED.
Election Officers of Whom Nobody
Has knowledge.

Field Deputy j. w. Sweeney. acting for
the Non-Partisans, made a report yester-
day morning to the Election Commission
which serves as another demonstration of
what has been so often charged as to the
bold outrages being perpelrated by the
Registrar of Elections.
He had been delegated by the Election
Commission to look into The cases of half
dozen persons registered as living in the
Yolo and other lodging-housss in the
neighb0rhood of Third and Howard
streets. Two Of them who had been cited
lived at the Yolo, and he found them and
found that they were legal voters all
right. But he found also that the house
was filed with other men who had just
come there, and their right to vote was
verv questionable. They were registered,
but they had not been cited. In other
words. the legal voters who board at the
YolO House had been cited while the
suffers in that house were undsturbed.
Exactly the same state of affairs was
found 10 exist at the Anita House and the
Bogle House, in the latter of which,
though full of men, nobody had been
cited.
These are all in the fam Gus Thirteenth
Precinct OF the Twenty-eighth District,
made fam Gus by just this sort of politics.
On the other hand, Sweeney had a
whole list of people cited from "a Hub
bard street to look ater-it is a lodging
house-and he found them all. Tney
were all workingmen and eligible voters.
The evidence is clear and convincing
that the great majority of the men who
are cited are goud citZens-the suffers
are known and are not cited.
Inspector OF Registration Conlan had
turned IN four sheets of paper with his
| books from this same Thirteenth of the
Twenty eighth containing Sixty-one names
of suspicious characters, which he turned
over to the Registrar to be investigated
Inquiry was made as TO what had been
done with that list.
Evans said he knew nothing of any but
one sheet of paper returned by ConiaD,
and eighteen names, which he said he had
cited. de could give no hint as to what
had become Of the other five sheets and
| the fOrty-lhree suspects. And so II goes.
| 1t was reported some time ago that pa
| tieuts in the City and County Hospital mad
! been registered, and citations were ordered
| to be sent to them. 1t was discovered
yesterday that this had not been done.
| Inquiry as 10 why brought the answer
| from Mr.. Lewis that the Registrar had or
dered these men to be registered, and it
was known that they were all right
Mr. Mahoney. representing the Nom
Partisans, was not so certain that they
were all right. He said he knew of one
man who was registered and got bis card
to leave The place the next day. 1t was
| finally decided to cite SUPERINTENDENT
! Titus and his books TO learn from them
| how many in the hospital had the right of
residence there.
Mr.. Block produced the law, which says
that temporarily stopping at any place or
| institution does not give residence.
with the people of the Almshous 1t is
| different" explained MIR. Mahoney.
| That is their home"
DR., Titus is expected to appear to-mor-
row morning aud explain how many Of his
| patients have their permanent home in his
| institution. There are eighty-one regis
/ tered from that place who are supposed to
have no right TO vote.
| Representatives of the Regular" Non
Partisan party called the attention OF the
commission to another fragrant violation
of law by the Registrar. The law re-
quires that election officers must be ap-
| pointed to serve in the districts where
they live. The purpose OF the law is
| clear-that they may personally know the
voter so far as possible. Investigation
mad been going On with regard To these
| officers and 1T was found that in the
! Twenty-eighth Assembly District, where
SO much suspicion rests, nearly all the