The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
WATCHERS TO
KEEP PUSH"
FROM FRAUD
Special Precautions Taken at
Polling Places to Pre-
vent Trickery
Registrar Discovers Suspicious
Characters and Collects
Much Evidence
Registration From the Barbary
Coast and Riffraff Is Care
fully Scrutinized

Special precautions will be taken to-
day to prevent frauds at the polling
places. With an exceptionally heavy
vote in prospect, there are indications
that some of the more reckless push"
followers will try to jam their tickets
through by criminal methods, but they
will DO this at the risk of being caught
by the watchers employed by the
Lincoln-Roosevelt league and by the
attaches of the Office of the registrar
of voters.
Registrar Harry Zenansky discov-
cred during the closing days of regis
tration that a number Of suspicious
characters were herded into the regis
tration Office for the purpose of quail
flying for the primary. Examination
OF their afhdavits confirmed his doubts
as to their right to vote and he is
prepared to complete his evidence
against them when they appear at the
polls today.
The registration from all question
able resorts in the Barbary coast, ten
derloin and the lodging house districts
has been carefully scrutinized for col
onizers, ex-convicts and all the other
riffran who are ready TO vote at so
much per head investigation has re-
vesled that there are a number Of
these unqualified persons on the regis
tration rolls, and every effort Will be
made TO prevent them from adding the
crime OF Illegal voting to that which
they have already committed in fraud
ulently registering
Registrar Zemansky declares that he
has evidence already TO warrant a
number Of indictments. but he has de-
termined to wait until the primary
election is over and his case is abso-
lutely complete before presenting It to
the district attorney and the grand
jury
Owing to the registrars precautions
this will be q bad day for suffers,
colonizers and others who attempt TO
violate the election law by casting an
illegal ballot Their criminal efforts
are liable TO land them in the peni-
Tertiary.
The registrar will receive every as
sistancs In this work on behalf of a
clean election from the watchers Of
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT league. These
men have been provided with exhaus-
tive challenge lists and are prepared to
contest the right of every man whose
name is not on the official roster.
No man who IS registered as a union
labor man or a socialist or who has
declined TO state his party Affiliations
provided he registered since the new
law went into efect), or who has
moved out Of his precinct since regis
tering is entitled to vote at the pri-
mary election today.
Should any attempts be made to vote
the names OF persons who are thus
disqualified the chaIlengers will be
quickly in evidence and arrests will
follow.
With the registrar OF votes deter
mined TO prevent any Illegal voting
and the Lincoln-Rooseveit league
backing him In this determination it
viii go hard with the men who are
prepared TO risk the penitentiary to
help out the push" IN its forIorn
cause
II is estimated that the vote today
will total between $4,000 and 1000
The latter figure would represent an
exceptionally heavy primary vote, but
as interest has been aroused to an un-
usual extent by the fight OF the Lin
coln-Roosevelt league against the ma
chine II is possible that this figure will
be reached