The San Francisco call., 1896-04-24
WHEN STERNBERG
IS SENTENCED,
That Will Be a Remarkable
Scene in Wallace's
Court.
TRIUMPH OF JUSTICE,
A Transgressor of Election Laws
Really to Go to the Peni-
tertiary.
WILL GET SIX YEARS TODAY.
Justice for Tool Who Steered False
Registration in Senator Ma.
honey's District.

There will be an interesting and some
what remarkable proceeding in Judge
Wallace's court to-day.
Louis Sternberg, steerer of false regis
tration and general violator of election
laws. will stand up to receive again, and
for the last time, double sentence of six
years in the penitentiary.
1t is an interesting and remarkable
spectacle when reckless violator of the
long and grim statutes which watch from
the codes over those 'palladiums OF
liberty" rises and shows that such laws
can be really made to work for once, even
on the surface of political iniquity.
1t is somewhat remarkable, too, that
Mr.. Sternberg's final sentence should
come SO speedily.
1t is not SO much as two years since J.
81. Mahoney became again distinguished
Senator, and here Senator Mahoney is but
beginning his patriotic stir amid the noble
activity of another Republican campaign.
he last election of Jerry Mahoney by
free people and an untrammeled Sam
Rainey is simply disassociated event by
which it is convenient to remember the
time when Louis Sternberg was first
thrown into Jail.
J. 81. Mahoney became again a State
Senator in 1894. Twelve and one are thir-
teen and four are seventeen it's only sew
enteen months since Louis Sternberg was
arrested for adding to the great register
the names of American citizens who were
not only addicted to the opium habit and
whose shoes needed half-soling, but who
had the further misfortune not to live IN
Senator Mahoney's district.
In that time no witnesses of importance
have died, but two appeals have taken
their course through the Supreme Court
and now the culprit stands at the very
door of the penitentiary. Something ap-
pears in Sternberg's case to have gone
wrong with the political pulls and the
lawyers with their tripping delays. Now
there are Cohen, Buckley, Martinez and
the rest who were run in at about the same
time. and they are all right yet. Poor
Sternberg has been fairly raiIroaded to San
Quentin.
At the time of the last election it was
discovered that the Forty-second and
Forty-third Assem- bly, districts had been
extensively colonized. From single
rooms in cheap lodging-houses many vot-
ers were registered, ana even the Baldwin
Hotel, where Senator Mahoney happened
to live, was given as the residence of
suspiciously large number of citizens who
were not used to living in such sumptuous
hostelries.
1t was found that some alleged residents
of the Baldwin Hotel were registered from
storerooms occupied only by dusty trunks
and weaving spiders. Senator Mahoney
was shocked at these discoveries, and Mr..
Sternberg will be shocked to-day.
Sternberg was convicted on two charges
months ago. On appeal he was granted
new trial in one case and he was again
convicted.
The appeal in the second case was dis,
missed day before yesterday and that Is
why he will rise for final sentence to-day.
The two sentences will probably be the
same as the original ones-three years on
each charge.
There is also one thing about Louis
Sternbergs case that is not at all remark
able. The laws justice is meted out to
the poor tool of others. while the princi-
pals, whoever they may be, who are
wholly responsible for this debauchery of
popular election, are in no danger of
seeing the bunk in felon's cell.