The San Francisco call., 1908-07-28
PLOT TO STUFF
BALLOT BOXES
N|PPED IN BUD
LincOIn-ROOseveIt League In
vestigatOrs Find Evidence of
False Registration
Five Names Listed From De-
serted House Shows Crook
edness in Twenty-eighth
Push" Nearly 0utdOes Ruef in
Colonization and Illegal
Voting Tricks

The registration of FIVE names as re-
publican electors from a deserted
lodging house in the twenty-eighth
assembly district was one of the Her
rin machine colonization jobs spoiled
yesterday by the men who are collect
ing evidence for the Lincoln Roosevelt
leagues committee against the ma
chine ballot box suffers.
Realizing that in the old time kind
OF colonization and ballot box stufing
lies their only hope of saving even a
portion of San Francisco from the on
slaughts OF the decent republicans,
fighting under the Lincoln Roosevelt
colors, Herrin's machine strikers. cap
tained by Johnny Lynch. have loaded
the register in manner wholly credit
able TO the ex-bank commission if not
quite up TO the thievish standard set by
Abe Ruef
Ruef voted the brick piles in the
burned districts. Investigation Of the
work done by Lynch's sublieutenants
has not disclosed yet the registration
Of debris heaps, but il has furnished
proof OF the improper registration Of
hundreds Of men whose names viii be
stricken from the register The ma
chimes colonization work has been
done systematically in the twenty
eighth. twenty ninth, thirtieth and for
ty-hrst districts. An efficient corps of
Investigators is running down the evil
oehce that viii result in q substantial
purgins OF the registers for these dis
tricts and in wholesale prosecutions II
Fhc r~7rrfvarF 14
pate IN the primaries.
FIVE FAKE NAMES
Here are the names OF the men regis
tered from the vacant house at 273
stevenson street;
Charles W. Austin. electrician.
p Thomas Curraa. Inborer.
Charles r.. McCauIey Iaborer.
Robert r.. Ryder, clerk.
John sullivan, salesman.
At 273 Stevenson street there was
formerly a 10 cent lodging house. but
the place is now empty. II is deserted
and contains no lodgers. the great
register and the push" TO the contrary
Notwithstanding.
- That colonization and illegal regis
1ratiOn are rampant in the twenty
eighth has been known at the regis
trar's Office and by politicians for some
time. The push" is leaving no trick
unplayed in its anxiety TO carry the
district against the Lincoln Roosevelt
league. The machine heelers have
shown no scruples as TO the class of
men. whom they have brought TO the
CITY hall for registration.
Tom Finn, chairman OF the union la
Dor county committee, has been doing
Herrin republican politics in the twen-
ty-eighth for months. He has been par
ticularly active in carrying voters to
them that their union labor registration
ought 10 be changed to republican. The
stake for Finn is the republican nomi-
nation for senator in the seventeenth
senatorial district which Herrin.
through Johnny Lynch, has promised
him II the push" wins the district
FIVE VOTES FOR FINN
It would mean FIVE votes for Finn il
the men whose names have been given
above were allowed to vote from 273
Stevenson street. The fact that the
place is deserted and that nobody has
a right TO register or vote from there
would make no difference TO the push"
Five votes are five votes.
Attempts have been made to ascer-
tain who is running the lodging house
at 273 Stevenson street, but they have
failed for the good reason that nobody
is running it. Knocks at the door at
various hours of the day and night
have brought no response.
No one lives there. No one has lived
there for a long time. The sand is
piled high in front OF the door which
has apparently not been opened for
months For rent" signs flap in the
dirt begrimed windows, stirred bv the
winds that find ready entrance through
the broken windows. There is not even
a straw heap much less anything like
a bed within the dingy interior of the
deserted shed. But according TO the
great register 1t is the home Of five
voters-fve republicans. The register
will be corrected and FIVE perfectly