The morning call., 1894-10-28
THE SUFFER- MAY ESCAPE
Good Citizens Summoned to Con.
sumo Time With Explanations.
THos. MAGEE STATES HIS CASE.
The Election Commission Has a Big
Contract to Purge the Roll
Before Election.

Still another of the Infinite possibilities
of the 'citation" to thwart it's own ends
was made apparent at the meeting of The
election commission yesterday morning.
The day before yesterday. it will be re-
memberei, the room was filled with men
who had been cited as stuffers but who
found no difficulty in proving that they
were good citizens and properly registered
and entitled TO vote.
Yesterday large proportion of those
cited and who appeared declared they
were not on the register at all. The com-
mission demanded the register. 1t was
produced and searched and the names
could not be found.
Registrar Evans admitted that there
must have been some mistake.
William HOl', clerk Of the Osborn House,
S07 Kearny street, had been registered
and properly so, but he was cited and
stated his case and the citation was dis
missed. He said that postal cards had
been dropping in at the house like snow
storm the past few days. Thirty or forty
of them had come addressed to every
lodger in the place, only cne or two of
whom had been registered. he couldn't
understand why they should be sum-
moned. He had received a note some
time ago asking for the names of the
lodgers in the house and be bad sent lis;
of them and supposed that the citations
had been takeu from that list. He de-
clared that no one else could get list Of
the names without consulting b m.
This was an astoDisher TO the commits
sion. IF properly registered citizens are
going to take turns with persons not on
the register at all in appearing before the
commission and consuming its time the
suffers will remain on the register unds-
turbed," said Mr.. Broderick.
Thomas Ii. ConSoy. who two years ago
was employed by the Democratic party in
looking for suffers, has himself been
cited, and he made very straight talk at
the Registrar.
he said that the clerks of that official
we're delaying the purgipg of the register
instead OF assisting the work. They were
SUNNI onlng peorle whom they knew 10 be
Iegal voters. and by flliug the Office with
them permitted the guilty people TO escape.
He said, further, that the men employed
by the Registrar TO canvass the districts in
search of suffers were not doing that, but,
instead. spent most of their time in the
back rooms of saloons and there made
out their lists of names for citation, just
as was charged by number OF persons
who answered similar citations on FRIDAY.
The board promised to investigate these
charges on Monday.
A committee Of Non-Partisans, COM
posed of Frank Sullivan, Thomas Magee.
Wallace Bradford. e. LIE Breton and d. J.
Mahoney, appeared before the commission
and stated that they desired 10 overhaul
the lists of voters in the Registrars office.
but the light and other facilities were very
bad, and they wanted TO know if they could
not be permitted to take them TO the Asses
sor's office.
Evans said he was willing to assist the
committee in any way. but did not want
the list taken out of his Office. 1t was ar
ranged that the committee should have the
old copying-room at their disposal and
there they went to work.
Thomas Msgee Of the Nom -PartIsans
took the occasion to say that he had heard
he had been charged with stuffing and
that it was a damnable outrage He had
bought ranch at Fruitvale for mis- sons.
who were working il. and he (Magee)
superintended their work, but his real
fcsiucuCc was NJ slIc OCClubDLdl, Wlere q
room was always reserved for him and
where he daily took lis meals lie had a
residence on Van Ness avenue. but a
Deputy Registrar had advised him to regis
ter from the Occidental.
Mr.. Block asked him il he was repis-
tered anywhere else and he said he was
not. THAT is enough for ME then" said
Block.
Magee said he had given $4,000 toward
the opposition Panama lines and S1OO 600
toward the San Joaquin opposition road /:
all his interests were here and he thought
he was entitled To vote.
T. j. l.. Smiley, representing the Re-
publican party, said that Mr.. Magee wouId
be cited and that he should he heard then
with his Witnesses and not before. He
should have no more privileges than a
poor man. He thought Magee was a stuff
fer.
At this Broderick shut Smiley off, saw
ing that the commission had granted Mr..
Magee the right to make statement and
Mr.. iley had not been invited 10 talk.
Furthermore he had no right TO cite any,
body. He should leave that to the Regis
trsr.
Mr. Magee said that when cited he
would appear and there the matter was
dropped.
The commission will meet morning,
noon and night. tomorrow and every day
thereafter, except Sunday. until election