The San Francisco call., 1906-11-02
STATE POLITICIANS
. ON THEIR GUARD.

/: OtB IIlGlU ~ OGbaiOI
Notorious Stuffing of the
f. Register in Los Angeles
]. IS. Causing Much Alarm
BITTER. .WAGED.
BY Thomas Sullivan
! .:.. +: With the. political campaign near
4 ing its: end. the eyes of the practical
F politicians throughout California are
! fixed. on Los."Angeles While the prac-
/ teal politicians indulge. the. spell bind
E1ers9 audit bills for bonfres: and. brass
f>ha nds and rnake~forecasts. Of majorities
I that: don forecast they: are keenly
+ aliv e:to: the necessity" of watching. the
-regi stration and: keeping close tab. on
Z the. count .%It is here that results are.
+ won while the orators are=talking their
Il heads Off fires are <bIa 1ing#and bands,
I ar playing TO no adYari'tage:" That. is.
1l*.why the. politicians are@:watchirg Los
3*Angeles. =. :.
f.. SUSPICIOUS REGIsTRATIoN.= ).
: In this county THE registration is
:abnormally large. = Isl: a :: matter of
: i
.EzDishon esty has. palpably played "a very
dangerous part in the~reg gistration, and
l:some of tt has been .uncoy erred It.looks
T as if every vacant lot: in the county had
been registered. Houses that are. ex-
3:clusfvely the abode of Japanese or
# Chinese: are. given in IN any instances
! as the#residences of. white. voters who
+ seek to. cast their ballots at the: APP
Eproa ching .election: -. ::
i = Every.body%@is willing TO: admit that
+. Los Angeles. has capacity: for large
:: things, but nobody has yet. been: found
II able to convince himself that Los: An:
EgeIes has :#doubled her population in
i rfour years Yet that is what tile: pres.
eiit. registration. of: the county !" iIldf:
.Fcates1 to- / he casual :obse rYer: IF e
y onlooker,- who is. inform edr:%the sftNz:
4 lsti ion means: that the pofiticia ns&<:haY e
81 stuffed Register to IAN al uruf IA :
E#rageous@ degree. In. I902*the .@@regis:
4 .teted=vote.*of Los Angeles County was
T AZ t43 4 This YEAR the. registered vote
4 is. 50. 900. No one. suspects: for .a%-rno =
:. Irfent that this: increase ffs'- norma -.
+ The Los: <Angeles. politicians .~allied
in. AGO mi mon ca use divide themselves
so: as to :obta ain. equal represen ia ton in
+ both parties. D Democrats! and. Republf-
Ecans look alike to them. as. long as
.1.their@ creatures are landed. in positions
:. of public trust. The situation has be
come so :intoIera:ble: in: the. southern
4 courl ty that nop7partfs s n. ;rIlo verl1 eflt
4: was: org ganized:. 1T was Wig orousl " 'ex-
i plotted and has received Large meas
.ure~ of public approval. + = = i:
Ff:.-;>>~. CLEANSING THE ROLLS. -
:. II paid attention particularly. tothe
q Judiciary and won popular support. It
gan. a: light against the nachi hiner and
!: then. discovered that it had TO face
a false =regTstratio that no Legitimate
agitation could. overcome :: One, Of the
s5.resJTlts*.. of its la bgTs, however, " Will
.l.::proba bly, be%the. defea fat least: three
i Republfcan: nofTli a ees: for 4 he Assembly.
:::;'When IT: was found: that the. regis
\ ira tion=@. was notoriously. dishonest a
4 searching. inquiry was made and hun
4 :dreds:.o Of names : have already been
; purged from the register. These" con-
Editions would: not seriously concern
!: the directors of the State tickets were
lit not for<the- fact that State results
3 are. deeply involved. After the State
election Of: four years ago the con-
Educt: of. Los Angeles politicians was
j extremely suspicious, and there is no
;. particular. desire on the part of any
;. body to see the ofense repeated
4 The danger is admitted to be, how
ever, extremely. grave. more particu-
Il larly from the fact that voting ma
4 chimes are not to be used The manipu
4. lators of the machine are already de-
Il Lclaring that on the night of the cleo
# tion it will be impossible to tell any
+ thing about the result Further than
this they insist that it VIII be several
days after the election before any
thing may be definitely known of the
4 vote in Los Angeles County.
h All OF this is very disquieting to
those that hope to see an honest vote
and an equally honest count. There
are 264 precincts IN the county and
these are given as an excuse to predict
what may prove to be an unfortunate
result. To guard against the general
scheme of dishonesty the parti-
sans viii have watchers in every pre-
= cinct 1t is not unlikely that Los An
geles may have reign of ballot-box
stuff1ng scandals that may exceed our
own.
CONGRESSIONAL FORECAST.
Republican authorities in this city
have announced to the National Con
gressional committee, upon request,
that in six of the eight Congressional
no question of Republican success. In
two of the districts. the Fourth and
the Fifth, there is doubt, but 1t is not
a serious one. Both Julius Kahn and
f. A. Hayes enjoy every probability of
success. The report that indicates an
uncertainty in their districts is made
simply to qualify the National Con-
gressional committee to make the most
conservative of estimates on the gen
eral result.
President Roosevelt is keenly inter
ested in the gubernatoria1 campaign in
California, according to a statement
made yesterday by Secretary of Com
merce and Labor Metcalf.
"The President is confidently looking
forward to the success of the Repub-
lican ticket in California" he said. He
knows Mr.. Gillett quite well and knows
of the work done by him as a Repre-
sentative in Congress. He holds him
in high esteem and regards him al Just
the type of man that ought to hold
public office. He would be disappoint-
ed IL the man who has always stood
for the administration and worked so
faithfully for good government and the