The San Francisco call., 1896-04-04
ADOPTED AS FIRST READ.
The Entire Committee and Not
Individual Members Will
Control the Election.
TWELVE DAYS OF PREPARATION
County Committeeman of the Fifth
Will Act in Harmony With
Those of the Fourth.

The Republican primaries for that por-
tion OF San Francisco lying in the Fifth
Congressional District were arranged last
night at a harmonious meeting of the
seven members of the County Committee
in that district.
The call as read the night before was
adopted with but one dissenting vote. The
call is the same as that adopted in the
Fourth District, and it also names the 18th
inst. as the date for the primary election.
The arrangements for the election are
now exactly as they would have been had
the call been issued by the County Com
mittee as whole and by the unanimous
vote of the eighteen members. The ar
rangements, plan, regulations and safe
guards contained in the call were unan-
imously approved night before last by the
eleven county committeeman OF the
Fourth District, and Mr.. Thompson, who
voted against adoptin the call as read last
night, objected only TO one detail of the
plan.
The naming of election officers, the Sc
lection of pollin g-plaCes and other details
With the Jurisdiction of the County Com
4ll4bRtt Will De 4IieuueQ 10
during the next few DAYS by the commit
teemen of the two districts acting sep
arate county committees. The call, the
main features OF which were given in The
CALL of yesterday, contains especially
strong safeguards which guarantee an
untrammeled expression of the will of
the voters as to who shall represent them
at Sacramento and an honest count of the
ballots which will place all factions on an
equal footing.
The adiournme ent taken the night before
was chiefly due to the opinion that the
call itself should segregate the election
precincts of each Assembly district into
two voting districts, two polling places in
each district being ordered. The adjourn
ment was partly due to the difference of
opinion about who should have the power
TO give credentials to watchers in the poll
ing places, and this is the only point about
which any difference of opinion has arisen.
All the members OF the committee were
present last evening when Chairman Man
waring called the meeting to order in the
office of James Alva Watt in the Mills
building.
Leon Dennery, whose seat as the men,
Der from the Forty-first District was de-
clared vacant some time ago on account OF
his having moved out of the district, was
one of the half dozen spectators present.
During rollcall he rose and briefly entered
q
member of the committee. Chairman
Manwaring ruled that he was not men,
Der of the committee and that he had no
right to speak. Dennery asked to have
his formal protest noted, and he was
cheerfully assured that it would be.
The call read on the previous evening
was brought before the meeting, amended
by the creation of two polling places in
each Assembly district.
James Alya Watt called attention to the
notice of reconsideration given by Jesse E.
Marks at the previous meeting. This
notice related to the vote which defeated
the amendment to the call offered by
Watt providing that credentials to watch
ers representing different tickets in
district might be issued by the chairman
and secretary cor the county committee
man" instead of by the chairman and
secretary on the written recommendation
of a ma iority of the candidates on ticket
The committee decided not to reconsider,
MARKS, Thompson and Watt voting aye,
and Manwaring. Clinch, Jackson and
Ayers voting no.
Jesse Z. Marks offered a resolution
amending the call, by providing that the
entire conduct and control of the election
in each mbly district be vested IN the
county committeeman in each district he
10 select polling-places, appoint election
officers, have absolute control and receive
feated, Marks and Thompson alone sup
porting.
Then l. H. Thompson offered an amend
ment providing that when there are two
tickets in a district, each ticket shall be
represented by judge and clerk, the in
spector to be agreed upon by both sides
and all election officers TO be men of good
character and standing. This resolution
was lost by vote of 4 to 3. There was
no discussion of either resolution.
Messrs. Marks, Watt and Thompson
favored shortening the hours during which
the polls are to be open, the hours fixed in
the call being from 8 A. NJ to P. NJ
Everybody agreed to leave this matter
with the representatives of the Fourth
District.
A vote was then taken on the call as
read and on motion of Jackson, seconded
by Ayers, it was adopted by six votes.
Thompson voted no, but observed it was
very nearly satisfactory to him.
1t was decided to adjourn until next
Thursday evening, when the committee
will meet at place 10 be selected by the
chairman after the regular meeting OF the
County Committee, which will occur that
evening.
On Thursday evening the Fifth District
committee will act on Lhe nom nations for
election officers which will then be sub
miited by the members. Similar action
will be taken by the Fourth District COM
mitree next Monday evening.
The apportionment Of delegates made in
the Fifth District election call is as fol-
lows: Thirty fourth District, s; Thirty
fifth. 6; Thirty Thirty-seventh, 8;
Thirty eighth. 8; Fortieth, 8; Forty
first, 9.