The herald., 1896-12-05
SIUFF|NG Of THE REGISTER
The Lodging Houses Have
Been COIOnized
SCORES OF FICTITIOUS NAMES
Search for Their Owners Fails
to Find Them
SOMETHING MAY YET DROP
Grand Jury's Attention May Be Called
to These Violations
ChaIIengers Are Put In Possession Of the
Facts
Sample Instances Of Fraudulent Regis
tration in the Eighth and Third
Wards-The Democratic
Committee Will Act.
ChaIlengess Are Put In Possession Of the
Facts


Wards-The Democratic
Committee Will Act.
The Republican city machine, the wa
ter company, the Southern Pacif1c-in
short all the powers of monopoly that
are arrayed against the people in this
fight for freedom from private control
are resorting to the most desperate eff
forts to tighten the civic chains that
bind this municipal Prometheus to the,
rock of corporate selflshness They pro-
pose to elect Janus H. Martin by all
means, fair and foul, and at all hazards,
80 that the allied vultures of extorton
may still continue to feast on the vitals
Of this beautiful city.
Not satisfied with the legitimate vot-
ing strength at their command, they
have resorted to the criminal methods
of stuffing the registers by colonizing the
cheap lodging houses, particularly those
east Of Main street. In one lodging house
alone in the Eighth ward there are said
to be no less than fifty men occupying
rooms there who are to be rushed into
the polls If not prevented in time by the
most extraordinary vigilance on the part
of the union tickets challengers.
The worst casei Of lodging house colo
nization 30 far reported, perhaps, Is
that of the Russ house on the corner of
East First and Los Angeles streets. AL
together according to the report made,
there are about seventy men alleged to
be rooming in that place and Of these as
many as 55 as said to be not entitled
to vote.
In the Sixtieth precinct the Arlington
and Richmond on Commercial street and
the New Arlington on Commercial and
Wilmington streets have been used
pretty freely for colonization purposes;
at least these names have been SO used
on the register In the Sixty-first pre-
cinct a notorious case of stuffing the reg
lister came to light in the last election in
the list of twenty-five men down on the
register as rooming at the st. Michaeps
house at $40 Also street Only two out
of the twenty-five, 1t was ascertained on
the day of election, were entitled to vote,
but these twenty-five men will be voted
illegally this time unless they are pre-
vented.
In the national election over 300 men
registered in Precinct STA, yet the total
vote polled was only 1877, which was due
to the close watchfulness of the chal-
lengers. In every case where chal-
lenge prevailed the would-be voted was
a Republican. Some of the names then
given as being of the Russ house dodgers
and all of whom were prevented from
casting ballot were:
John William Ryan, William Wilmer
Shabby, b. F. Whiteourb, Frank Horri-
gan, Charles Howard, John G. Kelly,
Morton Kerr. John +. Michael, Albert
Perkins, A. j. Phillips, Gaylord Gould,
S. A. Hammond, Robert f. Harvey,
Pat Carroll, C. A. Ensign, F. w. Baf-
drum. L. Bolt, F. Beaulieu, Charles Sny-
der. Harvey r. Fletcher and William
Clark.
One of the names on the register was
that of ]. c. O'Connell. The most dill
gent search failed to find Mr.. O'Connel.
He was finally given up as dead.
On the precinct register about sixty
names are now given as those of room
ers at the Russ house. They are segre-
gated politically as 10 Democrats. IL
Silver Republicans, Populists, IL Re-
publicans and 13 whose politics are not
accounted for. Just how the exact poll
of the names would stand if they were
all allowed to vote is matter of serious
conjecture. man who is in a position
to know said last night:
Somebody has been giving you fell
lows game Why know of fifty men
who say they live at that house who
don't have a vote at all-you couldn't
scare up vote in the whole crowd They
tried to run in lot of them fellows on
us in the national election, but it didn't
go. 1 suppose they are going to make
the same kind of a play again, this time,
but it won't work.
The twenty-three names given as
those of voters residing at the st. Mich
aels house on Also street, in the Sixty
first precinct, and who were found to be
not properly qualified were: Michael
McQuade, Fred Dudley White, Jerry
Watts, James p. Desmond, Burton H.
Warren, Thomas Martin, John Sweeney,
George Parnell William Taylor Phillips.
Dennis Cronin, John Callahan, Dennis
Murphy, Joseph j. Cairns, John Mar
tin, George Thornton, William Joseph
Powers, George w. Alternately, Thomas
Bassford, Charles Francis Sloan, Peter
Brannan, John Davis, Leonard Boyer
and Christian Strohm
Among the men registered from scat
tering locations who were discovered to
be of doubtful qualification were one
giving the name of Baker and his resi-
dence at SIS Alameda street another
calling himself Smyer and saying he
lived at 416 Lafayette. and that he work.
ed for the railroad company at 416 Jack
son street, and two others. yclept re-
spectively, Charles Francis Walters and
Charles William Griffin. Isaiah Jacobs
Ndnagy, IL was learned, had moved
from 800 Also street
1t is this class of transient houses
which the manipulators of the machine
ry of elections select in their COLOMBIA ton
schemes. and frequently 1t is entirely
without the knowledge and consent Of
the keepers; in fact, the keepers are NOT
consulted at all, it would seem, for names
are put on the register of persons who are
not bona fide dodgers, and in large num-
ber of cases entirely fictitious names are
manufactured, and these lodging houses
are designated as the places Of residence
for them.
What does all this portend? 1t signifies
that the way is being paved for re-
peaters at the polls, that Is, some chat
tel of the water company and the South
ern Pacific will register in one precinct
and say John Thomas Isaacson," and
give his residence as such a number on
such a street, and the same Individual
will appear on the register of another
precinct as something like "Halver Mon
tague," fitting a residence to suit. With