The San Francisco call., 1909-07-29
REGISTRATION IS A
RECORD BREAKER
Nearly $4,000 Voters Qualify
for Primary Election on
August IL
Great Interest Shown in Work.
ing of New Law by Activ-
ity of Citizens

Registration for the primary election
Of August II, which closed yesterday.
will total between $4,000 and $4,000
when the roll has been purged This
is the largest registration, with one
exception, that the city has ever had.
At the general election in 1905 there
were about $4,000 voters on the great
register. That figure has never been
reached since, this years figure being
the closest approximation to it, With
the interest which will undoubtedly be
taken in the November election and
with the efforts which all parties will
exert to bring out the full partisan
vote, it is extremely likely that the
record of 1905 will be equaIed if not
surpassed. Meanwhile all the records
for primary elections have been broken.
Registrar Zemansky stated last night
that the vote at the primary election
next month ought to be 10000 or more,
much larger vote than has ever been
| cast at any primary election in this
city. To students of the operation of
the direct primary law in various
states the great registration and the
great primary vote which may be eX-
pected are not surprising. The direct
primary has everywhere resulted in
increased primary voting. In some
states the primary vote of the domi-
nant parties has been larger than their
general election vote
AROUSES GREAT INTEREST
The intense interest which has been
aroused by the first election to be held
in this city under the new law was
strikingly illustrated all day and all
night yesterday by the crowds at the
registration office. The steady stream
of voters who had not registered dur
ing the last year and a half or who
had changed their residence since regis
tering began to flow into the basement
OF the old city hall early in the morn
ing. At noon and again after o'clock
the volume of registration increased
perceptibly and from to 10 o'clock
the clerks had all they could do to
dispose of the crowds. At 10 o'clock
last night there were between 200 and
300 waiting to be registered and others
were still coming.
The registration for the day way
900 in round numbers-about the same
number as were registered on the last
day of registration for the general
election of last year, which, it must
be remembered, was presidential cleo
ton
During the last three days about
1900 affidavits of registration have
been made out. Monday brought 700
voters, Tuesday about 900 and yes
terday capped the climax with $500.
The exact number of voters on the
great register can not be known for
several days. A great deal of the reg
istration is for change of residence,
and there is always some duplication.
TQtsf fl,a
erly purged the total, according to
both Registrar Zemansky and Chief
Statistician Daniel Gordon, will be be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000
EVIDENCE AGAINST WALTER
Registrar zemansky handed over to
District Attorney Langdon yesterday
all the evidence in his possession bear
ing on the case of Carl Walter, the
special verification deputy working for
Fritz Gercke, republican candidate for
supervisor. who filed with the registrar
"a afhdaVits with fraudulent sigma
lures.
The evidence consisted OF the affida-
Wit which Walter made when he was
sworn in as a veriflcation deputy, the
fraudulent affidavits and the aff1davits
of registration containing the genuine
signatures of the voters whose names
were misued
C. Harrison was assigned to the case
and will endeavor, in the first place,
to locate Walter who has not been seen
since the fraud was discovered.
WILL RALLY DISTRICT CLUBS
The campaign committee of the mu-
nicipal league of Independent repub-
lican clubs will hold a meeting tonight
at the league headquarters in the Mills
building. The district committeeman
will be instructed to convene the dis
trict clubs for the purpose of selecting
delegates to be voted for at the pri-
mary election.
The democratic organization is pre-
pairing to select delegates in the differ
ent districts for the same purpose It
is announced that unless present plans
are changed this will be the extent of
the organizations activity in the pri-
mary campaign.
Whether the republican county com
mittee will select delegate tickets is
still undecided; but it is possible that
this task will be left to the district
eaders.
The San Francisco democratic club is
adding to its list of projected meetings
and has already sent invitations to
DR.. I. b. w. Leland and Edward r,
Rock to address the voters from the
same platform with it's candidate, Su-
be held in the thirty fourth district
Saturday, July 81, at Market Street i'm
provement hall near Sixteenth street.
Tuesday, August 3, meeting will be
held in the thirtieth district at 1918
Market street
Supporters of p. Fl. Mccarthy, union
labor candidate for mayor, attended a
mass meeting held Tuesday night in a
hall at the corner of Twenty
and Indiana streets. The speakers
were p. II. Mccarthy, Thomas Finn,
John j. Sullivan, Judge Conlan, James
Brown, Charles Joiner, Charles A. Nell
son and John r. Knowles.
COUNTRYMAN INDORSED
The thirty y-ninth district republican
club, which styles itself regular, in
dorsed r. II. Countryman for mayor
and NJ. NJ. Stein for recorder last night
The club will meet on next Wednesday
to indorse the remainder of a complete
ticket.
PEDDLER BEATEN AND
ROBBED BY TWO MEN
Relieved of VaIuables While on