The San Francisco call., 1896-04-03

| OF election may give permission to said per-
| sons presenting said cards of admission to en-
ter the olling-places before the opening of the
polls, and TO remain there until the canvass is
completed and all the returns are proper
ly signed and sealed up. In the event of
the failure on the part of the election
officers to admit such persons holding
cards OF admission to the polling places
such person may call upon the police officers
detailed for such duty at such polling place. and
such police officer may use all lawful means
10 take such person inside the polling place.
The Chief OF Police is requested to give in
structions to his officers to enforce this resolu-
ton. Persons holding cards of admission may
be relieved by duly appointed and author
lied alternate, who shall have the same rights
| and privileges as the first regular representa-
tive upon presenta ton of the card OF admis-
sion issued to the said original representative.
Resolued, That no barricade or other OBJ
struction shall be erected or maintained in
front OF any polling place, but that the said
polling places shall be free from all obstruc-
tlons, as they are at general elections. and we
hereby give notice that no returns will be re-
ceived or counted official from any polling
place where this provision has been violated
ResoIued, That the official bellot-box arscach
polling place must remain in plain, un.
OF the polls, and be so placed that the voter
may easily see the top of the box and his bal
lot deposited. The representatives of all tick
cts must be permitted to remain inside the
polling places and in such position that they
can at ali times witness, unobstructed, the re-
ception of the ballot from the voter and the
depositing of the same in the ballot-box by the
inspector or Judge of election who receives the
ballot.
Resolped, That no peddling of tickets or So
hciting of votes shall be allowed within 100
feet OF the polls, and the committee requests
the police officers on duty to keep the polls free
and unobstructed at all times This shall not
be construed to apply to the presence of chal-
lengers.
Resolued, That in addition to all other
grounds OF challenge in the laws of the State
governing general elections, scommittee
hereby directs and orders that the following
and additional test be given to voters II be-
l1eve in Republican principles, and indorse
the Republican policy, and intend to support
the nominee OF the Republican party
Resolued, That this committee hereby insists
that free and untrammeled ballot and an
honest count must be carried out and rigidly
enforced at said primary election; that all at
tempts to deviate from this principle should
be discountenanced and that those guilty of
frauds or parties thereto should be disbarred
from said and all other conventions and
that if it shall appear at any poll
ing-place that there is Or has been
any fraud or wrong committed, or the rights of
any citizen to cast his free and untrammeled
ballot and to have the same honestly counted
has been in any way interfered with, this COM
mittee will set aside and declare null and void
the election at said polling place, and shall
proceed to provide the representation to which
said district is entitled in said convention as
above set forth.
Other paragraphs in the call provide
that the committee shall furnish ballot
boxes and precinct registers: that ballots
| shall be 6x12 inches in size; that the call
shall be published for five days; that re-
turns shall be canvassed by the committee
and that none may vote whose names are
not in the precinct registers used at the
general election in November, 1894.
1t also apportions the sixty-six delegates
to which the Fourth District is entitled as
follows: Twenty eighth District, 5;
Twenty-ninth, 5; Thirtieth, 6; Thirty
first, 5; Thrty-second. 4 Thirty-third,
6; Thirty-nihth, 8; Forty-second. I; Forty
third, 7; Forty-fourth s; Forty fifth, 5.
The appointment of election officers was
disposed OF in resolution providing that
each county committeeman shall nomi-
nate officers of election for his district, the
names TO be sent to Secretary Walsh
at $50 Market street before next Monday
evening, when the committee will meet
to name election officers and to transact
other business. Each committeeman shall
| also provide map of his district, showing
| segregation of precincts into two polling
districts, to be numbered one and two
respectively.
The date for the election was left in the
| hands of Chairman Chreten to be fixed
by him after conference with the other
committee. The date was later made the
18th inst. The committee adjourned to
meet next Monday evening at Republican
headquarters, $50 Market street.
The proceedings in the conference of the
seven members from the Fifth District
were not so harmonious, though there was
| entire unity in favor of an open primary
| and on every point except the single one
relating to the regulation of the admission
of watchers to the polling booths.
The seven seated themselves on the
stage and at once elected C. w. Manwar
ing chairman and John Jackson secretary.
Secretary Jackson read draft of call,
leaving blank places for dates. The call
was the same as that adopted for the
Fourth District
when the reading was finished Jesse E.
Marks objected to the provision requiring
representatives of all sets of candidates to
present credentials signed by the chair
man and secretary of the committee
after they have been recommended
by majority OF the candidates