The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-04
AFTER THE FRAY.
The Burns Forces Very
JubiIant.
MARTIN KELLY'S COMPLAINT.
He Declares the Ballot-Boxes
Were Stuffed.
MARTIN KELLY'S COMPLAINT.
SPECIALIZING ON CANDIDATES
Estee, Barnes and Coombs Will Each
Have City Following on the
First Ballot.


of its delegation at the convention which
meets in Sacramento ON the 10Th inst. 1t
will not do this on'the first ballot. for fear
of antagoniZing the country and risking
defeat. The plan is to divide the strength
of the city delegates among several candi-
dates on the first few ballots, and later on
create stampede for the man who may
have been determined upon in advance.
The question now is. who is this man?
Any candidate whom D. NJ. Burns may
select can have the solid vote; but Mr..
Burns says that he does not know who the
candidate will be. 81 have been SO busy
arranging for the primaries" said be yes
terdav. that [ have not given the matter
my attention"
When asked If he would favor the NOM
inatiOn of Nj. Nj. Estee, Colonel Burns
gave non-committal answer. 1t has been
talked around town that the chances for
| the nomination of Barnes were improving,
but the logical candidate seems to be Estee
| III the opinion of the politicians, and that
| gentleman was receiving congratulations
yesterday from his friends at the Palace,
| as though the nomination was f0regone
| conclusion.
Perhaps on the earlier ballots Barnes
aud Coombs may show a greater strength
in the San Francisco delegation OF 164. but
| il Barnes wills IT their strength will go to
| Estee.
There was much rejoicing at Republican
headquarters in. the Baldwin yesterday
| over the political downfall of CTImmins
and Kelly, ana with this rejoicing was
much apparent self-interest of seekers
| after Office.
Applicants for city nominations swarmed
! about the headquarters and plans for the
| city primaries were under discussion be-
| fore the smoke of Saturdays battle had
| lifted.
ID. NJ. Burns considers that the overthrow
| of Crimmins and Kelly was so complete at
| the primaries that they will not appear in
| the primaries to be held 10 August for the
election of delegates to the county con-
| YentIOn.
They polled 800 votes yesterday" said
| he. "At the next primaries 600 of these
voters will leave them"
| Martin Kelly declares that he was beaten
! by suffers in the Twenty eighth and
| Twenty NTH districts and that the police
| interfered in favor of the supporters of
| Burns.
There were SIT votes counted in the
! first precinct of the TWEEN Ly-eighth Dis
| trct, of which our side was allowed Ill
In the second precinct they counted SOL
| votes and gave us 136 of them. We had
them fairly beaten, but :hey stuffed the
| boxes. L saw the other side openly give
men money to vote. The police would not
| allow our men to stand in line. They
| took them out in blocks of sixteen at a
time. When L saw how things were going
| L called our officers out from one of the
| precincts and told a friend to call them
! out of the other. Afterward L ordered
| them to return in the second precinct, and
went to the first to countermaud the order
| for them to leave, but L was detained on
| the way and cur officers had come out
1 when L reached the hIst precinct. | told
them to return 10 the work, but a quarter
OF an hour had elapsed and in that time
| the ballot-boxes had been stuffed.
| ut is easy enough to show that the
! boxes we're stuffed. Every voter almost
was challenged. Sometimes a man had to
wait as long as ten minutes to get his vote
| in. An average of two minutes to vote,
which is very small, would allow 300 votes
TO be cast in ten hours, yet in our precinct
| or votes were counted.
In calling his officers out Martin Kelly
| seemed 10 have had in view the filing of a
| protest, but now that he has been beaten
so overwhelmingly il is doubtful if any
protest will be made.
Tim Sullivan, who marshaled the Burns
forces in the Twenty-eighth District. was
feeling very happy over the defeat of
! Kelly in his own district and had a very
different story to tell OF the primaries.
Kelly got mad because we wouldn't let
| 'Blinker' Murphy vote twice." said Suli-
! van "When Blinker came up the second
time and tried to vote under another mans
name challenged him and told him that
he couldn't do that.
"'What'H the consequence be IL do vote
| the WsgOn?' asked BlInker | told him
| No, the gutter, and he replied, I'm chance
| the gutter by -
"a policeman removed him, and Kelly
got mad and called his officers out, but he
didn't call out his watchers. Martin Is
foxy, and when he says the boxes were
stuffed while his officers we're away he
forgets to tell that his watchmen were
there"
Sullivan tells good story of one trick
which he says Martin Kelly tried to play
in the Twenty-eighth. He says that Kelly
came up breathless to the police officers,
declaring that two men were fighting half
way down the block. and that one was
killing the other.
81 looked out, and sure enough thew
| were having a rough-and-tumblef fight.
| The crowd started toward them, except
about ten men. who waited in front of
the sidewalk. The. police started Ia go
toward the men," continued sullivan,
when l shouted to the sergeant that 1t
was his duty to protect the ballot-box If
the police had once left the ballot-box
would have been kindling- wood in no
time. Ii was very smooth trick to create
a fight as diversion, but it didn't work
! -Afterward my brother saw the two men
who had been fighting drinking together in
a saloon, and one of them was complaining
because the other had struck so hard
when they were merely acting part"
Some OF the politicians seem to think
that Crimmins and Kelly will have a
chance when the primaries for the cleo
ton of delegates to the county convention
take place, and that they are not dis
heartened by defeat but are laying their
wires anew.
A meeting will be called for Tuesday or
Wednesday, when the result of SATURDAYS
primaries will be announced. 1t is
thought that there will be no serious pro-
tests. E. W. Williams and l.. A. Phillips
are reported to be working in the in terest
of the candidacy of C0ombs for Governor.
1t Is rumored that an offer of nomination
for Congress from his district will be- ten
dered COombs.
Peixotto. Short and Lilienfeldt Of the
Fortieth District are said 10 be energetic
workers for the candidacy of Barnes.
Mr.. Marks stated that the delegates
from the Fortieth District we're unpledged,
though several favored Barnes as candi-
date.
Senator Flint of San Benito County was
in Town yesterday. He stated that dele
gates had been selected in his county, and
that Monterey would make its choice on
Saturday next Several of the northern
counties will hold primaries next Satur-
day.
jacob Steppacher, assistant secretary of
the State Central Committee. will leave
Tor Sacramento tomorrow to make az