The San Francisco call., 1896-04-16
BLUSH|NG BESIDE
MARTIN AND JERRY
Kelly Mahoney Delegates
Shamed by the Farce
and Fraud.
RESERVATIONS LIKELY.
Few Reputable Republicans
Want to Be Tools for Two
Corrupt Bosslets.
LOCAL POWER Is THE GOAL.
The Contest in the Fourth Is the
Effort of Kelly and Mahoney
to Break In.
LOCAL POWER IS THE GOAL.

N4NNSAOAA SeAi ~ Issued.
1t Will have to make appointments to
I'LL several vacancies in its delegation to
Sacramento before convention day, accord
ing to indications that began to appear
yesterday
There are among the men who were put
on the ticket by Martin and Jerry many
reputable Republicans, who are now
blushing to see their names paraded as
tools of two disreputable tricksters whose
record is so completely infamous. They
vince, too, at the programme OF going to
sacramento as creatures of the most stu
pendous primary fraud ever perpetrated
in any city.
Knowing that not more than 800 iegiti-
mate votes were cast for them at the rump
primary on Tuesday, they do not proudly
stand forth as representatives of the Re-
publican party in its highest work and
hold up to view the seven thousand and
more votes with which the returns were
openly stuffed. Three hundred legitimate
votes and 1000 voted by Martin Kelly and
jerry Mahoney do not afford the sort of
credentials that some of these self-respect-
ing gentlemen are ready to take and play
that the two politicians who have most
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accomplish their own ends. Kelly and
Mahoney raw do not stay on many Re-
publican stomachs Just now.
The fact that the whole movement was
born in fraud and was given its start by
two forged proxies in the hands of Kelly
and Mahoneyis another thing that lessons
the pride with which some of these men
view their position.
Then Kelly and Mahoney placed on
their ticket several names without consult
ing the men who bore them One of these,
DR.. ]. E. Antiques of the Forty-fourth
District. discovered this use of his name
after the ballots were prin ted and ordered
his name scratched from the ticket, which
was done on election day.
Republicans yesterday were generally
too much interested in the regular primary
to bestow much thought on the farcical
one OF the day before, but comments were
usually accompanied by a laugh and the
opinion that the amazing extent of the
stutfing and the boss-ship of Martin Kelly
and j. H. Mahoney would relieve the con-
testing delegation from being taken very
seriously at Sacramento.
The most interesting fact connected with
the Kelly-Mahoney primary is the one
that the worlds election-stuffing record
was broken. In Mahoney's (Forty -second)
district the sixty votes tailed by the aid
of a few repeaters we're openly increased
when the polls closed to over 600, and by
the same simple process of chuck1ng in
enough ballots to make the box look full,
and tallying the desired number of votes
in all the eleven districts, the 1000 was
easily proclaimed.
The delegation with which it proposed
to go to Sacramento and institute a con-
test in the Fourth District is wholly the
creation of Kelly ana Maboney, and this
fact will not be forgotten. Neither will it
be forgotten that the entire motive of
these worthless is to get hold of something
in municipal and legislative politics which
they can use, and their use of politics is of
one well known sort. Martin Kelly is
now out in the political cold. He has no
patronage to dispense, no officials to tax,
no Supervisors to sell and nothing to
swap with. He is on short grass being
financially "busted.'
Now Kelly is playing about the skirts of
the party trying to get recognized. Even
partial success in the State Convention
would give him prestige, political cred
ltors and other sources of strength by
which he would try to get hold on the
local political machine.
Senator Mahoney likewise makes poll
tics his business, and like Kelly he wants
something to do business with.
Martin Kelly, forlorn but ambitious,
busted himself about tAe meeting of the
State Central Committee few weeks ago
in partnership with Mahoney, who was
member OF the committee. On the night
of that day meeting of the State Central
Committeeman of the Fourth District was
called by Mahoney and Kelly for an hour
or two after the call was sent out. a. about
P. NJ. Kelly and Mahoney had their wires
and plans all laid and Congressional
committee fixed up by Kelly and Mahoney
was nominated by Mahoney.
This committee was appointed, accord
ing to the record, by five OF the eleven
committeeman. This was a minority;
but three of the five votes were proxies,
and two of these, secured and handed to
Mahoney by Kelly, were afterward found
to be forged. Affidavits to this effect were
made by Gustave Mels1ng and John Mar
tin, whose names were used.
BY this fraud, perpetrated amid the
trickery of meeting hastily called at
night, the Kelly-Mahoney Congressional
committee which conducted the primary
of Tuesday was created.
Three or four days later a majority of
the State Central Committeeman met and
appointed the regular Congressional COM
mittee which delegated to the County
Committee the conduct of the primary OF
yesterday.
The fraudulent committee has been
wholly dominated by Kelly and Mahoney,
and the delegates were named by them.
There has not been even pretense that
the delegates named represented nybody,
any element or anything.
The primary and all the m mac hinery at
tending it was wholly farce and the dele
CATION has been as truly appointed by
Kelly and Mahoney as though the dele