The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-23
| OFFICERS SELECTED
FOR THE PRIMARIES
SUCCESS OF ELECTION COMMITS
SIONERS' EXPERIMENT.
representative Citizens Will Be
Chisen to Serve on the
Precinct Boards.

The new plan of the Election Commits
sloners for selecting primary election of
fcers was given trial last night and
proved most successful. The Thirtieth
District was selected for the experiment,
and by o'clock large number of voters
Of that district who had been cited to APP
pear before the board were in attendance
at the Registrars office. Commissioners
Phelan. Lane, Wells and Sheehan were
present, together with Registrar Step
pacher.
Mayor Phelan explained to the assem-
blage that the board had cited them in
accordance with the new primary law
He quoted the object of the law, SAYING
that twas purely in the interest of good
government Primary election officers
must serve without pay but he hoped
every man would be willing to perform
his duty in the interest of good citizen
ship. In order to secure good municipal
sentative conventions, which had not been
the case in the past
It was decided to take up the first con-
solidated precinct of the Thirtieth Dis
trlct, and the Registrar called the names
of those who had been cited from what is
known as 4, the Thirteenth precinct one
Democrats and three Republicans shall
constitute the election officers in eacn
precinct, and after questioning all who
answered their names the following were
selected for the Thirteenth: Daniel Gro
min, Republican, and William F. Healy
ana D. II. y Brlen. democrats.
The men selected for the Fourteenth
precinct We're B. G. Somers. Republican,
and Edward McDevitt and Frederick E.
Rockstrohl, Democrats.
The Fifteenth precinct did better, all
the officers being secured. as follows: Eu-
gene Sullivan. Richard Purcell and
Thomas O Brien. Democrats. and p. Bur-
CESS, H. Hilderbrandt and Frank c.. Stable.
Republicans.
In the Sixteenth precinct John H Gil
more, George H. Walcott and George
Werner, Democrats. and Henry B. Russ
and Frederick Koch, Republicans. We're
accepted.
Two Democrats and two Republicans
as follows: William j. Cleary and James
H. Riley, Democrats and Philip Cohen
and William A. Vetter, Republicans.
The board was well satisfied with the
re- result and decided to cite voters from the
Thirty-first, Thirty-third and Thirty-tifth
districts, and enough to fill out the vacan-
cies in the Thirtieth to appear before it
next Tuesday night. Those who answered
last night were very representative citi-
zens and it seems likely that an excellent
set of officers will be secured.
Commissioner Sheehan offered the fol-
lowing resolution, which was adopted:
Whereas. suit has been commenced against
the Board of Election Commissioners to test
the validity of the primary election law
Resolved That Morris NJ. Estee and Gavin
McNab be employed by the Board of Election
Commissioners to represent the board in
junction with City and County Attorney Lane.
who is hereby directed to control the litigation
in the matter of n + Britton vs. the Board
of Election Commissioners ct al.
The board then adjourned till Tuesday
pose of opening bids for printing and sup
plies.