The morning call., 1894-09-22
BURNS HIGH HAND.
Voters in Many Districts Have Been
Ignored.


The primary election of the Republican
party will take place to-day, the object
being to elect delegates to the municipal
convention. The special Burns committee
has been very bnsy making arrangements
for the event to suit its members and the
colonel. They have been very successful
IN the accomplishment Of that end, but at
the same time they have worked the voters
Of some of the districts to pitch of dis
gust which threatens OTen rebellion. IN
three districts there will be o. position
tickets and in one a majority OF the work
eTs viii take 10 part in the primary be-
cause they have been ignored IN the seec-
ton of the officers of election. The dis
triets which will put up two tickets are
the TWENTY eighth, where Martin Kelly Is
still battling the Burns forces the Thirty
third, where Committeeman Conn and
Morgan are cOntending with a faction
under the leadership of Dick Spreckels and
Dan Crowley. and the Fortieth, where
Jesse Marks and Dave Short are strug-
Cling for the supremacy.
The Forty first District is the one in
which the revolt against Burns will take
the form of an open rebellion against boss
rule. The Mckinley Club, composed OF
$50 active workers. is iDcensed at the high
hand tactirs OF Leon Dennery and George
Walker, Burns committeeman, who
named all the election officers and gave
the Mckinley Club the cold shoulder.
The members Of the organization declare
they will not 60 near the primary. 1--WE
can control 500 votes in the district" said
one of them yesterday, land we will. and
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all down the list when election day comes.
We intend to nominate our own candidates,
and our petitions will be out Tomorrow
Besides Burns action in regard to the pri-
mary we find tn at he has imported julius
Kahn into the district and slated him for
the Senate from the Twenty-secOnd Sena-
toria District.
This has been dune 10 prevent Kahn,
who was sidetracked when be lried TO get
the nomination for Congress in the Fifth,
rom running as an Independent against
Loud. IT'S all very we'll for Burns to try
to please the men he has barreled while
making up his railroad slate, but it hap
pens that the Mckinley Club want Oscar
Lewis TO represent the district in the
Senate, and 1t won't have any outsiders.
So we are going to fight Kahn. He ought
TO run for Congress, anyway. He'll have
q walkover as against either of the regular
nominees"
And so it goes. Colonel Burns is de-
termined to run this primary as be did the
last one, and the men who have organized
the districts and have been shut out of the
convention are raising row which they
will keep up until election day. Many of
{ol- hi do+o b.F
NOn-Partisan convention.
The primary committee has issued in
structiOns to the election officers. The
following announcements will be of ill.,
tsrest to the voters:
Polls must be opened at 8 oslock In the fore
noon and closed at O'CLOCK in the evening
When the time has arrived for opening OF the
polls the ballot-bOx must be exhibited. empty,
10 the bystanders.
No person shall be permitted to vote unless
his name appears on one of the precinct regis
tiers of 1892, comprising the precinct OF the
polling place in which he is entitled to vote.
When vote Is challenged the inspec or must
hold tile ballot in his hand until the challenge
is determined by the election board, and If the
decision is against the voter his ballot must be
returned TO HIM. The poll list must show the
name OF every voter who has been challenged.
The Dall0t-D0X must remain In fuIl view of
the voters from the opening TO the closing of
the polls.
AS soon as the polls are closed the election
board must proceed at once TO count the bal
lots in The box and then canvass the same.
No person, except the election officers as
chosen by this commi tee aud officers OF The
law, shall be allowed 10 the polling places, un.
less by written authorization OF this committee,
signed by the chairman md secretary.
In canyassng the result We recommend the
Story system Of counting: segregaling the
straight ballots and crediIing the respective
candidates with the total number OF straight
votes cast for each. then proceeding In the usual
manner 10 count the scratched ballots.
All returns must be filled out and signed on
the blanks and forms furnished by this com.
mittee. representing the Republican County
Committee. AS soon IS the canvass is CON-
pleted and all returns are signed and sealed
I'D, they must be taken at once 10 the rooms of
tie primary election committee.
For fraud or wrong-doing insid, of The polls
this committee will reject the returns from
such polling place.
Resotted, That pursuant TO the authority in
vested in the committee by the Republican
County Committee of the city and county OF
San Francisco, 1t Is hereby declared to be the
policy and intention of this committee in The
selection of election officers 10 use the utmost
carr. and To that end this committee Will lake
the entire responsibility OF appointing all the
inspectors. judges OF election and clerks Of