The morning call., 1894-11-09
THE AFTERMATH.
Registrar Evans Office
at Its Busiest,
VOTING WRECKAGE RECEIVED
Friends of Candidates Keep
Sharp Watch.
VOTING WRECKAGE RECEIVED
BOOTHS TO BE STORED AWAY.
Flotsam and Jetson of the Great
Cyclone Being Strengthened
Out.


| busiest scene yesterday that has char
acterized i. since the opening of the CAM
palgn.
The election officers followed one
another in quick succession with their
big packages of ballots and other para
| phernalia. nearly all OF which was done
up wrong; candidates. representatives of
candidates or the army of friends of can
didates crowded about the railing to get
the figures in which they were most ID
terested from the sem-official returns as
rapidly as they came in. They filled the
registry-room, Evans main offices and the
wide hall In front of them gossiping about
the possible changes the latest returns
might make, telling of frauds they knew
of in the count and about the OppOr-
tunities everywhere presented for fraud.
The clerks behind the desks were kept
busy answering questions and fixing up
the blunders of the election officers where
| that was possible. Many of them brought
the packages IN unsealed, and they had to
be dau6ed with red wax before the clerks
would have anything to do with them. In
several instances they were sent away TO
do this TO keep from blocking the course of
business about the desks. Evans caughta
couple of them making an attempt to seal
up the packages in his Office and hustled
them out t. the desks again where DOTS of
boiling wax hung over small stoves for the
| purpose.
One judge of election had brought his
packages to the Office all right except that
| two Of his officers had neglected to sign
their names upon them as required by law.
! That was an easy difficulty to get over, he
| said, and at once wrote the names of
the absent officers upon them. The clerk
| tried 10 look away in order to facilitate
| matters, but some one called the transact
| ton 20 the attention of Andy Clunie, who
| happened to be standing by. and he re-
marked to the young man that he was
| liza bic to go to the penitentary for that
| little trick. TheTeupOD the young man
took an eraser and did away with the evil
| dence of his high crime aud took the pack
| ages with him until he might find the own
ers of the missing names somewhere about
town, when they could write the names
! mselves.
In the corner of the room stood man
| with apparently an endless stock OF gold
| coin in his trousers. casning the warrants
Of the election offlcers-at discount, of
| course.
There was the constant kick about the
| reckless way in which the packages were
left TO lie about the desk and floor instead
of being hurried into the vault especially
! provided for them, and before which two
! guards are now stationed to watch that no
| one misbehaves with them after they are
| placed there.
An inspector took up a great deal of
time explaining that he swore in the
wrong man as an officer. and the clerk
| who really did the work in his precinct
has been left off the payroll.
| Wagons were bringing 10 the black tin
! ballot-boxes by the hundreds, and the
wreckage generally was being piled up in
| odd rooms.
! The Election Commissioners rooms " ere
taken possession OF by newspaper men,
copying the returns from the semi-oficai
| sheets.
For short time during the morning the
| Election Commission itself was in session
| TO transact little business that became
pressing.
Chief of this was the necessity of get
| ting the election booths off the streets,
These booths have hitherto been stored in
| the basement of the hall, where some one
| (nr many has been having such fun with
| them that ii cost about $4,000 to put them
IN repair. A suggestion to store them on
the city lot at Market and Ridley streets
was opposed by the Mayor on the ground
that 1t would develop into another political
| and costly slnecure for some one.
A MIR. Kennedy. who has a lumbsr-yard
at the foot of Fourth street, proposed
to take charge of them and have his
watchman give them the care that he doe0
Tor other lumber all for $50 per month
| The proposition was accepted. w. c,
! hughes proposition to knock down the
| boxes and take them to Kennedy's at the
rate Of IS % per box was also accepted.
| Quite row was raised during the after
noon in the Registrars Office by couple
| of deputy Sheriffs who, by order OF the
| Sheriff, undertook to take their places
with the policemen on guard at the vaults.
Evans refused to recognize the deputies,
and they went back TO to the Sheriff's of
| fee and were sent back to the vault.
Evans, with loud voice, repudiated them
| again, and then they went to the Chief of
| Police, who threatened to lock them up il
they continued boisterous, it beng evil
| dent that they had been driD king. 1t
was shown TO Evans later, however.
that deputy Sheriff should be on guard
at the vault, and he allowed a sober one 10
| take the stand.