The San Francisco call., 1904-11-06
MORE SUFFERS
ARE DISCLOSED
Merchants Association Hot
After the Men That Are
Seeking to Vote Illegally
REGISTRAR is SILENCED

The Merchants Association yester-
day transmitted to the Registrar of
Voters an additional list of 202 names
of persons who are reported to be il
legally registered. The association
also addressed this important COM
munication to the Registrar:
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 5.
George P. Adams Esq, Registrar
of Voters, City Hall, City-Dear Sir:
We beg leave to acknowledge your
favor of November 2, with regard to
the action of the Department of Elec-
tions regarding the names of persons
submitted as being illegally on the
Great Register of this city and county.
I'VE are pleased to know that the
work done by us is appreciated by
the Election Commissioners. but note
with considerable surprise your state
ment that our lists were not carefully
prepared and were, as a matter of
fact, erroneous in a majority of cases
"Out of a list of about three hun
dred and fifty names in all submitted
by us to date, not including Chinese,
you have so far only claimed that we
were mistaken in thirty-seven. I'm
der the present showing, therefore. it
would not appear to be a fact that we
were in error in anything like ma
iority of cases submitted By us to you.
1t would be remarkable, indeed, if. in
preparing lists of this sort with the
limited time at our disposal, they
should be absolutely free from error.
The sources, however, from which we
have derived our information are
sources in which we have the utmost
confidence, and every list of names.
before being submitted to the Elec-
ton Commissioners. has been very
carefully checked and verified.
Referring particularly to the names
of those persons as to whom you claim
we were in error and who are claimed
by you to be properly upon the Great
Register we have no desire to deprive
any of these gentlemen of their re-
spective rights to vote at the coming
election if they are properly enrolled
on the Great Register. And if these
persons have, as requested by us, been
cited to appear before the Election
commissioners and have then and
there, under oath, proved to the satis-
faction of the Commissioners that
their names were properly on the
Great Register we are entirely salts
fed with the result.
Referring to the list of Chinese
submitted by us to you. will you kind
ly inform us whether, in investigating
the legality of the registration of these
Chinese, you have ascertained wheth-
er those under 81 years OF age who
appear on the register were interro-
gated and put upon their oath
as to their ability to read
the constitution in the Eng
lish language and write their own
names. As YOU will recall from our
former communication upon this sub
ject that was the point of our criti-
cism against the registration of Chi
nese and our criticism about this Chi
nese registration was not directed to
a question of residence.
1--WE hand you herewith an addi-
tional list, containing names of par
ties registered from various locations
in the city, who. our information
causes us to believe. do not reside at
those places at the present time. We
would respectfully request in this, as
in previous cases, that these parties
be Immediately cited TO appear and
show cause why their names should
not be stricken from the Great Regis
ter. Respectfully yours,
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION.
IL. NJ. KING, Secretary