The San Francisco call., 1896-04-17
More Than Seven Thousand
Suffers Ballots Are Their
Warrants.
SOME WILL SLIDE OUT OF IT.
They Do Not Relish Bending Low
That Martin Kelly and Jerry
Mahoney May Rise.

The delegation from Martin Kelly and
J. H. Mahoney which is expected to knock
at the doors of the Republican State Con-
vention hall on May 5 will be largely
proxy delegation, and it will also be short
few votes.
The majority of the sixty-ive who have
been named by Kelly and Mahoney as the
ones they are to play in an effort to lay
hold of some scraps of local political
power are feeling little as though they
had slipped in the mud and didn't know
just what to do about it.
They are not telling people that they
were elected by 7643 OF the Republican
votes in the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict. The big vote is not being paraded.
The delegates comprise two classes of men.
Some of them are small professional poll
ticians whose lives are passed holding or
seeking little patronage jobs, who are al
ways allied with some district boss and
who stand in with the push" Others
are politically respectable as politics go,
and have suffered their names to be used
because of personal friendship or in pay
ment of political debts.
Some of the "push" element may be
really proud of those 7643 votes, 7343 of
| which represent the stuffing of the ballot
boxes and returns. But u majority of the
others turn shamed from the worlds stuff
ing record. Knowing that on last Tues
day every one of the eleven polling places
was practically deserted all day; that not
300 legitimate votes were cast in the ag
gregate; that the few members of the
push who attended to the repeating were
not industrious enough to provide a re-
specially large vote, and that when the
polls closed a few hundred extra votes
| were deliberately and openly Tailed in
each district. they rather shrink from ap-
pearing in the highest council of the party
| with the most stupendous primary fraud
in municipal history as their warrant, and
| with two such infamous tricksters as
Kelly and Mahoney as their creators and
| sponsors.
| Many of them, too, do not just like the
| idea of bending low their shoulders that
Martin Kelly, Jerry Mahoney and those
who herd with them may mount thereon
and surmount the wall of political de-
cency which now guards the party and
the City's official affairs from their cor
rupting and dangerous power.
So it is that many of the delegates are
signing or expecting to be unable to go to
Sacramento. Kelly and Mahoney will in
duce as many as possible of these to keep
quiet and let their proxies be used.
William Offermann of the Thirty-first
District, who is q grocer at Tenth and
Howard streets, says that he did not care
to make known at present why he con-
sented to his name being used. He does
not expect, however, to 60 to Sacramento
when the State Convention meets. Mr..
Offermann said yesterday he had the ut
most confidence in John d. Spreckels as a
leader of the party, and was sure that Mr..
| Spreckels deserved the support of good
citizens.
Henry Mcclure, another so-called dele
gate from the Thirty first Assembly Dis
| trict has rooms for his family in Mr.
| Offermann's house, although Mcclure is in
| fact resident of Sacramento. He for
| merly resided in this City and was en-
| ployed by the Central Pacific as head
watchman. Lou Brown, Secretary of
| State, gave him job in the Capitol
| grounds. The Legislature makes liberal
| appropriations every session to keep the
| Capitol grounds in trim, and the Secretary
of State is entitled to give out some of the
pie. Mcclure came down from Sacra-
mento few days ago and remained in the
| City over night. He got himself on Jere
Mahoney's ticket, and perhaps got the
| promise Of a few proxies to distribute as
| his friends should desire.
The Kelly -Mahoney list of delegates con-
| tains the names of many who were for
merly employed in various departments of
| ~.
| Southern Pacific Railroad. G. W. Bay
reuther was a plumbing inspector, F. A.
Koegel was health inspector, G.. w.
Pratt was deputy under Sheriff Laumeis-
| ter. These, like others, owed their patron
age jobs to Martin Kelly.
w. Michelsen, elected on the "blanket
| ticket" from the Thirty-ninth District,
used to be a Democrat. He is proprietor
| of the livery stable on Ellis street, near
Larkin, and through Supervisor King re-
ceived the contract for keeping two of the
police patrol wagons in his stable. So be
| was willing to reciprocate. r. G. Falk, an
other nominee, is we'll remembered as Raw
Falk of the Registrars Office, and long one
of Mahoney's political friends.
DR.. Joseph Antiques, whose name ap-
peared on the Mahoney ticket under blue
pencil mark, declared yesterday that he
knew nothing about the matter till told
by friend that he was nominee from
the Forty-fourth Assembly District. In
stantly he called A. Ruef by telephone.
What does this mean?"
"That's all right, doctor. You stand
with us?''
mo, sir. You stand with yourself. I'll
have nothing to do with this ticket. /
don't belong to your faction. I won't
have my name on that ticket
Bangl and the telephone shook.
The doctors name was scratched.
N. Ferrogiaro is retired vegetable gar
dener, who was asked to run on the Kelly
Mahoney ticket. He answered "all right"
and his friends say he did not know what
the ticket meant. So long as it was Re-
publican ticket he. thought it was "all
right"
In the Forty-fifth District Joe Kings
henchmen comprised the delegates. John
Hayes was appointed on the Harbor po-
lice throup oh KINGS inAuopca with uar