The San Francisco call., 1909-07-24
WALTERS CASE UP
TO ELECTION BOARD
Facts of Fraudulent Affidavits
TO Be Laid by Zemansky
Before Commission
If Instructed, Registrar Will
Turn Evidence Over to the
District Attorney

1t rests with the board of election
Walter. the special verification deputy,
who filed with the registrar "a fraud
ulent afhdavits for the petition of
Fritz Gercke, republican candidate for
supervisor. shall be punished for his
violation of his oath.
Registrar zemansky said yesterday
that he would lay the facts of the case
before the election commission at the
meeting next Monday afternoon
The board, L suppose said Ze-
mansky. will direct me to turn the
| matter over to the district attorney.
II so, | will furnish him with all the
evidence at my command. 1t will be
his duty to prosecute under the law"
Zemansky expected that Walter
would put in an appearance yesterday,
either to explain or to attempt to pal
late his submission of the fraudulent
affidavits, but Walter was not in evil
dence, either about the registrars Of
fee or around the headquarters of the
| republican county committee
Walter was commissioned to obtain
/ signatures for the Gercke petition by
| Charles H. Forbes, secretary of the
county committee.
wafer nTSt came 10 headquarters,
said Forbes yesterday, with sigma
lures to the Dollin petition We need
ed men to help out on the Gercke Pc
| tition and as he was anxious TO get
work he was employed for a day and a
half. He was partially paid for his
work. He had the appearance Of an
ignorant, inoffensive fellow"
BOGUS NAMES NOT NEEDED
Gercke's petition was found to con
tain sufficient signatures without the
spurious Walter affidavits to entitle
Gercke to a place on the ballot His
petition contained 1927 signatures. OF
which 1.276 were found to be valid.
P. A. Bergerot and Andrew F. Dollin.
also republican candidates for super
visor. had a hard time getting on the
ballot The first examination of their
petitions showed an insufficient number
of signatures, but on a second exami-
nation, which involved the reprecinct-
ing of a number of signers whose afi-
davits were Incorrectly marked. both
mustered enough votes. Out of 1,254
Bergerot had 1904 valid signatures,
and out of 1855, Dollin has 1.001
The municipal league of independent
republican clubs is busily engaged in
preparing literature for its primary
campaign. Among other activities
finances are occupying the attention OF
the leaders. At a recent meeting the
finance committee was empowered to
add TO its membership as many as il
saw fit and to consult with Byron
Mauzy. candidate for mayor The pres
ent members of the finance committee
are: l. o. Upham. chairman; Andrea
Sbarboro. Milton H. Esberg, Marshal
Hale and William H. Stewart.
LIPMAN's CAMPAIGN
According to William H. Stansbury
secretary of the executive committee
formed TO prosecute the campaign OF
George NJ. Lipman for republican nomi-
nation for police Judge, 1000 business
men have joined in petition for his
support and nomination by the repub-
lican electors. The petition was read
last night at a meeting of the commit :
tee held in the Pacific building. The
formation of Is district clubs was re-
ported and the members of the COM
mittee expected to have % clubs at
work when it meets again on next Fri
day.