The San Francisco call., 1906-11-07

Deputy Sheriff Tom Finn, Ruef
man of veteran service, sat in the front
room of a lodging-house at $50 How
ard street during the voting yesterday
afternoon. That was the only polling
place in what had been the populous
Twenty-ninth District, where last year
there was a totalYvote of 3783.
only It's men have voted" said the
Deputy Sheriff. "and~in this very lodg-
ing house there are 1000 men staying
and across the street there are almost
as many. Does that look like stuff
ing?" he added almost wistfully
The experience of the Twenty ninth
was paralIeled in the Forty fourth Dis
strict-in fact, in all districts in the
burned section of the city. j. George
Boyne. secretary of the Board of Pe-
mouth Square near the only polling
booth in the district, which was placed
at Washington street and Brennan
place
RECORD ELECTION.
This has been the most quiet and
lawful election ever held in the city,
declared Boyne, who is a politician of
maturity and ability in Forty fourth
tactics. Supervisor Dan Coleman, who
is more recent to politics, stood by
Boyne and nodded sympathetically.
In every district of the city, practi-
cally, the event of yesterday was the
most moral exhibition of people TAX
ing their suffrage that ever transpired
in San Francisco. There was no ap-
parent drunkenness. There was al
most no challenging of voters. Anti
election day Investigations had proved
instances of gross colonization of vot-
ers-but the colonists must have found
more remunerative jobs, for few, if
any. showed up at the polls. and fewer
were shown up.
QUIET AS CHURCH SERVICE.
Captain NJ O. Anderson of the Mis-
sion police station said that the entire
proceedings were like church service,
and the captains territory included the
Thirty-second and Thirty third dis
tricts. where, in previous years. many
an elector has vindicated his princi-
pies by the ready persua sion of a jolt
on the jaw.
In the Southern police station Cap
tain Colby affirmed his colleague s
simile. One Greek saloon keeper, Theo-
dore Pacaco, was arrested for viola
tion of the liquor law. but this was an
isolated case
One of the rules of the voting ma
chine pastime is that a voter must not
spend more than two minutes in the
sanctum. A majority of the voters in
the city took the count That was ap-
parent early in the day. In the booth
of the Tenth Precinct of the Thirty
seventh, located at Broderick and
Haight streets, a neighborhood which
boasts of being conservative $50
voters had awaited themselves of the
franchise UP to ten minutes of IL
o'clock, an average of a few seconds
less than two minutes to the man.
This leisureliness of the voter was
taken as an indication that split tickets
would be the rule of the day, a prophe
cy substantiated when the returns came
in which a material difference in the
ballots each candidate received.
VOTERS At ALMsHoUsE.
At Precinct 13 of the THIRTY
ninth. with the polling place at the
Almshouse. there was steady vote
all morning, and at IL O'clock half of
the registered voters, most of them
being wards of the city, had appeared.
There was no challenging of voters
there. The antagonism which charac-
terized the day year ago, when Frank
Maestretti was boss of the district and
Grand Jury was after him. was not
evidenced
One of the bitterest local fights ~
the campaign was made in the Twenti-
eth Senatorial District between Frank
French and William Kennedy. which
resulted, happily, in Frenchs defeat.
But about the booths of the district
there was no turbulence.
In the Eighteenth Senatorial Dis
trict, which included the Thirty-first
and Thirty-sixth Assembly districts
Henry Beatty. the anti-R Ruef man, was