The San Francisco call., 1899-07-13
BLANKET TICKET DEAD.
Kelly and CrimninS Turned
Down by the Election
n1n1iSSiOnerS.

The Board of Election Commissioners
has unanimously rejected the Kelly-Crim-
minis blanket ticket scheme and for the
gang which is attempting to dominate the
Republican County Central Committee
has laid down the one course of procedure
which is within the law and which will
be permitted to obtain at the coming
primaries
Concisely the commission has said that
delegates to the next convention shall not
be elected at large, but chosen upon the
proportion of representation in each
Assembly district; that each district shall
have, and know, its own representatives
and that the Western Addition shall not
| be represented by the flower of Brannan
street or North Beach heelers.
Furthermore, the commission has given
| the County Central Committee, the Peo-
| pies party and the Socialist Labor party
until Saturday to, lose their planhet .to lae1.
order of things in fresh petitions for
| places on the ticket.
Messrs. Kelly and Crimmins did not give
up their graft without fight. 1t had
been conceded for two or three days that
the scheme was a dead one, but notW1th-
standing Al Raisch and Pat Prendergast,
to whom the fight mad been delegated,
worked on the commissioners from an
early hour yesterday morning uftd untll
in ile an 1''i' effort 1te to get them INTO
line They were discouraged early in the
game and made last desperate effort 10
start things going their way when they
approached Commissioners Wells and
Sheehan with a proposition TO WltndraW
the blanket ticket scheme II the board
would consent to allow the committee to
have seventeen delegates from each dis
trict without regard TO party representa-
ton at the polls.
Wells and Sheehan were non-committal
on the scheme as was Commissioner Ill
ton, who was also approached, but Ralsch
felt secure enough in the premises to
make his proposition in open meeting
after the board had come together He
let his gold brick lie on the table just
long enough to deliver a nice little speech
of withdrawal and another taking Ii all
back. Tnen he picked it up and reverted
to the original proposition-the blanket
ticket. The board went into executive ses-
sion to consider
Chairman Lane opened the meeting with
a simple announcement of the reason for
it, Then he invited Mr. Raisch to speak
when the Republican County Central
Committee offered its petition tor the So
called blanket ticket, said he IT ola
so IN absolute good faith and for what 1t
considered the best interests OF the party;
Since it was made public, continued
Mr.. Raisch, there has been so much crit
icsm and censure; the press has objected
so strongly to the plan, that IN order 10
satisfy all the factions of the party we
now desire to recede from our position
and fall back on the alternative. We Will
be satisfied with seventeen delegates Sc
lected from each Assembly district.
That's where Mr.. Raisch handed out
his gold brick.
'That viii give you the same BOG dele
gates; but do you mean to say that you
would give the Twenty-eighth District,
with 1000 votes, the same number of dele
gates that you would give the Forty-sec-
Oud with 5000 votes? ?' inquired Lane.
Raisch replied that was precisely the
proposition, to which Lane retorted that
If he were a Republican he would not con-
slider the scheme good poItlcs'
That Raisch had merely put ms propo-
sition out as a feeler became evident when
he discovered that the commission was
waxing not at all enthusiastic.
Attorney Archibald Barnard and Fat
Prendergast came to his assistance ana
Barnard attempted to explain the rather
complicated figures by which their unique
table of representation had been arrived
at but il was no go with the board. Lane
asked if they preferred that plan TO pro-
portional representation and. they sald
they did. Lane said it was not WITHIN the
provisions of the law and asked II the
committee would abide in the matter by
the decision of the board.
I'VE didn't say SO, retorted Ra1sch,
and then he gathered in his brick again
''Of course, If you gentlemen will not
grant the alternative plan we Will not
Withdraw our original petition, we want
one or the other. We are willing to let
the blanket ticket slide if you will con-
sent to the modification we offer. If not
we want it understood that we nave not
withdrawn our original petition.
Lane said he was not sure that the
board would accept either the original or
the modification, upon which Prendergast
came to his feet with the statement that
the members of the board had come to
private understanding with him and had
agreed to the modification
The only reply to TINS was a motlon py
Auditor Wells to go into executive session.
LYMAN Kline of the Peoples party and
Collins Gersford for the Socialist-Labor
party backed their petitions for blanket
tickets but the action of the board in
executive session pointed the way all OF
them will be compelled to travel. The
resolution adopted unanimously was as
follows:
mary election law the Board of Election
Commissioners is required to pass pis., upon pc
ties for place upon the official ballot to be
voted at the primary election to be held
in this CITY and county on Tuesday, August
s 1893; and whereas, under the law the APP
portionment of delegates for any territory
average vote cast for the candidates of the
respective pvttioning political parties at
whereas any apportionment made in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the law
must not be to the election by territory
not included in the same Assembly district.
Therefore be it
noIiticai parties that do not conform to the
provisions OF the law be rejected
Resolved. That it is the decision of this
commission that the apportionment for each
territorial division shall be upon the basis
canddates Of f the respective petitonng po-
iitical parties at the last preceding se2-
eral election and the said apporttonment
shall be in proportion to the number of votes
cast In said territorial division, which shall
not be larger than an Assembly district.
Resolved That all parties which have not
complied with the law in the above respects
shall be given until Saturday. July Is, at
II a. M in which to present said appor-
tionnent as they may desire in accordance
with the law.
Which is to say that the law is to be
the embroidery work for the Crimmins
and Kelly layout has been given until
Saturday to do so. Under the provisions
of the plan laid down by the board If the
County Committee decides to stay by its
proposition of one delegate to every eighty
voters the number of delegates from each
district will be as found in the following
table: