The San Francisco call., 1899-08-01
TIME NEEDED
FOR PREPARING
TALLY-BOOKS
Delegates Tickets for
the Registrar.
NAMES SHOULD BE PRINTED
ESTIMATE THAT NEARLY $4,000
REPUBLICANS ARE ENROLLED.
The Voters Will Not Take Orders
From the Bosses or Go to Saloon
Headquarters for In
struction.


struction.
Yesterday the Registrar of Voters sent
q communication to each of the organized
political parties asking that the Election
Commissioners be furnished with the list
Of the delegates to be voted for at the
primary election. The object of this re-
quest is TO print the names in the tally
books TO be used at the polls. The organ
izations receiving this letter are not at
this time able TO comply with the request
In the selection of delegate tickets con-
siderable headWay has been made by the
city Republican League. the organization
OF which Henry T Scott is president, and
also by the executive committee Of the
Democratic Committee Of one Hundred.
The clubs formed under the auspices OF
the Republican County Committee are at
work in each Assembly district in The pre-
paration of a ticket, but there are no IN
dicati0ns that the tickets VIII be ready
for transmission to the Registrar before
the latter part of this week.
1t is feared now that the Election COM
uissioners will not receive the names IN
sufficient time to have them printed IN the
tally book and a result the clerks at
The various polling places viii be com
PEELED To write the names in the taily
book. There is strong suspicion that
some Of the regular politicians are schem-
ing for delay in order 10 defeat the true
purposes of the primary eleclloh Id".
Jnder the most favorable conditions, with
The names printed in the taily pook, II VIII
take a long time to canvass the vote, ana
II The names have to he written in the
book an interminable length OF time
would be needed TO complete the canvass.
Tomorrow evening there VIII be a meet
Ing 20 organize the advisory central club
Of the Republican County Committee.
Yesterday A. J. RaiSCh, chairman of the
committee. sent out the following notice
a. each one of the delegates recently
chosen:
The meeting Of the delegates Of the Advisory
Central Club of the Republican party will be
te- Wednesday evening, August , at
Hail. t1r the purpose Of enectng permanent
.r-ar .zation. You have been elected delegate
by your district club 10 represent them IN
--0a greanization. Your attendance Is re
1t is asserted at Republican headquar-
ters rhat the enrolment Of voters on the
regular club rolls numbers 1850 The Call
believes this Is an ONereStlmate, but rec
ogu.Zes the fact that many independent
voters who have hitherto withheld their
names from club rolls were recently en-
rolled IhlS large enrolment does not IN
the slightest degree signify that the Re
pubdcans so enrolled propose to take or
aerS from Kelly and Crimmins, or go to
the saloon Of any other boss for instruc-
lions. These Republicans will take the
best ticket presented TO them in their re-
SpectiVe districts and Will use their infiu-
eDce to secure the election Of men OF char
acter and ability TO compose the conYen-
uon.
There never was a time in the history
Of the Republican party in San Francisco
that the voters of the party entertained so
little respect for bosses and boss meth
DDS. tt is doubtful If Crimmins and Kelly
could recruit a following Of 1000 voters in
the whole city.
If the organization which mas It's mead
quarters in the Grand Hotel puts the
best delegate tickets in the field it Will
likely win out in the contest for the con-
troll If the convention, as the Republicans
q
express their choice at the polls. The pTi-
mary election gives the people a chance
to control the convention and if good men
are not chosen the people Will nave only
themselves to blame.
a lively time is anticipated at the meet
ing next Thursday evening OF the regu-
lar Central Republican Club OF the Thir-
ty-first Assembly District. The meeting
will take place at Trades Union Hall.
corner of Mission and Sumner streets. and
VIII consider the report Of a committee
appointed To select delegates to be voted
Tor at the primary election.
The Bemocratc factional hght in the
Ihlrtv-eighth Assembly District is beCOm-
ing intensely bitter. Last night Buckley's
followers, believing that they We're being
GuTeG by the kalney men in the Gallagher
club met i'm Powers Hail and organized
q Buckley club. There are now three
Democratic clubs in the Thrty-eightE.
The one representing the McNab faction
is headed by Bert SChlesinger. The
Raiuey- Examiner league is represented
10y the Gallagher club, and John J. SulI-
van is pres ident of the Buckley club which
was organized last nlBht. Inc lndlcatlOnS
are that there Will be three delegate tick
els i'm the field.
The Democratic campaign has been en-
liyened by one very funny incident. The
Bainey- Examiner league, fearing that
they were getting the worst end of it in
the contest with the Democratic execu-
tive committee, fancied it would be
good scheme TO have an arbitrator ap-
pointed 10 adjust the differences in dis
tricts where Rainey and the Examiner
We're weak. So word went out that ex-
Judge jeremiah f. Sullivan had been
clothed with all the powers of a court Of
arbitration. The disgruntled and discOn-
tented Democrats who had grievOus bur
dens TO bear were all advised to go to
Judge Sullivans law office for consolation
ana redress Rainey and the Examiner
did not select Sullivan until they had gone
down the line Of a long list of Democrats
without finding one TO step in and arbi-
tCate. one prominent Democrat who was
offered the position Of arbitrator was ad-
Vised by his friends to go out in the
Thirty-ninth District for an hour and
practice arbitration and then consider how
he felt after he had passed the ordeal in
that section of the city. In most Of the
districts the Democratic fight is shaping
itself TO a contest between Buckley on one