The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-09

science compared with the Registrar; and
the yellow dogs yellower brothers are justi-
ted in bowling,
registrar Evans latest little meanness
IS all the result of little personal pique-
II men who are given to little meann esses
can be said to acquire pique. II was, for
an the world, the action of a bear with a
sore neau VINO wishes TO get even on some
pay Tor something. Evans naturally
ieeis mean, but during the last week or so
mas apparently grown meaner from the
public expose of the frauds on the great
register OF voters, which is in his custody.
he mated the public because it's eyes had
Deen opened to the something rotten ia his
denmark. His meanness took the form
OF getting even with the public by with
noldlng. II be could, the official count till
many hours after they might otherwise
have had it. INDIRECTLY. he wished to
make trouble for the newspapers. He
com mitted the mean little act. but in each
instance it met the fate of all other mean
little acts-it signaliy failed, which only
goes to show what mean little thing a
a mean little man who does mean little
acts can really do. Distinctly, again, the
desplsed yellow dog is of finer mold. ;aEeS
Some two weeks before the election The
morning newspapers jointly established a
| bureau 10 handle the mass of figures which
would follow the counting oil the votes.
a number Of men were employed in the
ever 100 extra were placed on duty tn col
lect the returns. In order 10 facilitate
this work and get the figures before the
reading public at as early an hour as pas
be. the heads Of the bureau called upon
the Registrar and prevailed upon him to
allow them 20 send 10 each OF the polling
| places in this county duplicate Of his
| ''semi-Official return" blank, 10 be filled in
| by the officers at the same time as the
| original. They agreed to pay Tor the
| printing OF these and of the addressed en-
| yelopes into which they were afterward TO
| be placed. They also laid the matter be-
| lore the Board of Election Commits siOneFS,
and on October 81 the board passed a reso-
| luton so instructing the Registrar. In
| pursuance of this resolution and agree
| ment the bureau furnished the required
duplicate blanks. and they were dis
| patched TO each Of the 293 precincts in the
| city and county.
AS fast as the count was completed In
! any one precinct these duplicates were
filled IN along with the originals and in
| separate envelopes, plainly marked "Du-
| pllcate, were returned TO the Registrar
| office. When the first one arrived TWO
| representatives OF the bureau, who had
been made deputy registrars with the dis
! tlnct agreement that these duplicates
should De handed over to them, requested
their possession. George Lewis, the chief
| clerk in the Office. acting for mean, little
REGISTRAR Evans, refused to turn them
over. He said that if the bureau desired
II could send a man to copy the blanks,
but on no consideration could it take
away its own property.
IF yOuse felltrs expect to get the first
| rattle out of The box" ne scornfully ex-
claimed, you are very much mistaken
because, with Us felleTs here it's matter
Of bread and butter now, and we propose
TO have the first deal"
Several other emphatic statements.
freely interlarded with phrases that
make life on" continual round of pleasure
at the faro-table, followed, but he didn't
give up the blanks. His attention was
called to the fact that the bureau, not the
city and county, haG paid for the blanks.
He was also shown the resolution passed
by the Board OF Election Commissioners.
He remarked that he didn't give three
whOOps ia the warm belt for the blink
ety. blank-blank Election Commissioners.
He was running that end of It.
There was no moving Lewis, who had
evidently hreD dlilled by Evans 10 the full
bent of the petty meannesS of both, and
the bureau was compelled 10 employ any
number OF extra men to get what it had
before justly paid for. 1t caused consid-
cradle outlay aud much extra work, but il
was done, the figures copied as soon as
they reached the Registrars office. and
Lckspitlle Lewis to Lickspittle Evans
was foiled. his petty method of doing
the petty bidding of the petty little
brorher-in-law OF the eX-fugitve boss
availed him not. The yellow dogs, who
sometimes have cans tied to their ratty
little tails, are not so mean and scurvy as
these twO-Eyans and Lewis, the yellow
dogs with the Burns collar.