The San Francisco call., 1908-09-23

Party leaders of San Francisco will
ind their efforts to forecast the voting
strength OF their respective parties at
me coming election unavailing. accord
ing 10 facts reported by the regis
trar office yesterday. Within the last
week hundreds Of men have declined
10 announce their political afiliation
upon registration.
lhe percentage of declinations has
grown daily and the increase has been
nOst prominent during the husv saa
son IN the registrars Office, which be-
gan week ago Only upon rough
estimate and chance will party leaders
be enabled TO base their reelection
claims.
week ago the declinations became
noticeable On Monday and Tuesday
me proportion of declinations was
about per cent. The following days
saw an increase to 10 per cent, and
yesterday the proportion grew TO 40
per cent with every prospect evident
that II would continue to increase un-
III the close of registration, which
takes place tonight The significant
fact remains that hundreds Of voters
do not wish TO make public their po-
litical connections
Through q decision of the supreme
court handed down little more than a
year ago, the law was upheld com
peiling a voter to name his afiIia-
ton in order TO vote at the primary
To this law is attributed the failure
Of many voters TO register prior to the
primaries, reserving their right OF suf-
frage until the general election, when
upon registering. they could decline to
announce their partisanship.
TOTAL ABOUT 1920
The total registration reached es.72s
on Monday night On that day 1923
registered. At the close Of the regis
tration Office on Saturday night Sc, sos
names had been enrolled. officials in
the registrars Office declared that a
registration Of about $500 voters would
be made yesterday with a possible en-
rOllment of 5000 to be made today,
which viii make the total registration
tonight about 1920.
The figures given out yesterday fall
far short Of the registration for the
presidential election of 1904. In No
bTember Of that year. when registration
7 ceased, s1,576 names appeared on the
great register.
The percentage Of republicans regis
tered exceeds that of the democrats
twofold, although the failure of many
70 state their partisanship makes the
accuracy Of the figures somewhat
doubtful The figures compiled by the
registrar give the republicans a per-
centsge of 5S against the democratic
percentage of 22.5. The union labor
party follows with 9.5 per cent, and the
socialists next with 2.5 per cent
With a percentage of 1 the doodle
dees have been relegated to the BOBBY
class and even that percentage is con-
sidered somewhat overestimated.
While the registration from the
burned district has increased over past
figures, il is still small. AS an indi-
cation Of the trend Of population, the
figures compiled on Monday show an
average registration for that day of
zs in the twenty-eighth, twenty ninth,
thirEeth, thirty-siXth, forty-second,
forty-third. forty-fOurth and forty
fifth assembly districts, which were de-
populated by the fire.
HEAVIEST FROM PANHANDLE
The heaviest registration on Monday
was made in the thirty-seventh dis
trict. which includes the territory in
the vicinity Of the Park Panhandle
from Octavia street westward; north
Of Duboce avenue and south from Full
ton street The next heaviest regis
tration on Monday came from the thir-
ty-fourth. district with 1877 names. The
population of the Sunset and Richmond
districts has increased greatly, as the
figures Of Mondays registration gave
the thirty-ninth district ia names
Registrar Zemansky declared yester-
Gay kldl MS OtpullES COQlQ HduOlo
5000 names daily If the men would
come TO the Office. One hundred and
forty men were at work yesterday and
two shifts have been arranged.
The task Of mailing the constitu-
tfonaI amendments will begin soon. To
The certified copy Of the amendments
y was added yesterday the application
for local street railway franchise by
John J. Egan. The application, which
will be printed with the amendments,
is as follows.
An ordinance granting to John ].
ERsn Of the city and county of San
Francisco 4 franchise for the right
of way and the right to construct,
maintain and operate single or double
track railroad, together with all neces-
sary tracks, sidetracks, turnouts,
switches, curves, crossings, depots and
terminal tracks and facilities along,
over and across certain streets in the
city and county of San Francisco"