Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-25
FIGHTING FACTIONS.
Republican County COnven
tiOn Tomorrow.
THE ORC FINO MIDDLE
10 Nominate or Not To Nominate
That Is the Question-The
Country Against the City.

Country Against the City.
, Thursday is near at hand. 1t
tomorrow. 1t is the day set TO
the NEE ing Of the Republican Coun
ty Convention. Yet near as the even
is, there is not man in the part,
who can tell now whether the work fo
which the Convention is called, will b,
performed, or whether the meeting will
adjourn until late in August or early il
September, and then meet to put 6
county ticket in the field. In point O
fact the party is demoralized ant
paralyzed. Members of it meet you OF
the street and loudly, apparently with al
confidence tell you their side has 8
veritable walk-over in the county
He will boldly claim $500 as the majority
by which the party will carry Los
Angeles county. At the same time the
fellows speaking are shaking at the
knees, with misgiving as to any success
for his ticket next November. So de-
moralized is the party that strenuous
effort will be made to stave off the busi-
ness of the Convention called for
tomorrow. But, to be perfectly
frank, fear is not the only consid-
Grafton which will lead to the attempt to
postpone the nomination of a county
ticket. Mingled with fear of the Dem
ocracy is large modicum of the chilean.
cry which at the prese mt time so largely
dominates in the councils OF the party ol
Great Moral Ideas. 1t is we'll known that
the motion to hold the convention at
so early day comes from the country.
The object of this on the part of the
country cousins was in order to prevent
the city fellows from making a slate.
Ii only half the population of the county
is within this good City of the Angels,
nearly all the wire-pullers, office-seekers
and ward strikers of the party which
claims patent on all the decency there
is aboard, are found within the munich
pal limits of this burg. These always
combine and leave the country out in the
cold.E Now the bucolic portion of the
party has got onto this little game, and
in order to prevent its being successfully
played at recent meeting of the County
Committee, the fellows with the hay
seed in their hair came in here and
threw bomb into the camp which
caused calling of the County Conven-
ton at SO early date. The city wire
pullers were astounded. They pleaded
that the country delegates could not be
elected, could not be informed. The
chaps from the alfalfa patches declared
that they wished for no sympathy.
Now the delegates are chosen, the
convention called, the country will be in
in force. The names are slow in reach
ing headquarters, The HERALD has been
trying to get the list in order to publish
it. But so fragmentary is it, that it would
not be worth while to give so imperf. ct
a list. All the same the bu-
collie delegates will all be
there. They will be on hand all armed
for bear, ,Uand if any unfortunate wire
puller puts in an appearance with slate
woe be unto him His slate will be
broken, and his aspiration
will be dashed to the ground. But there
will be strenuous effort made by the
slate-writers to defeat the country
cousins. From present appearances, the
country will win and the nominations
will be made. There is a pretty large
of the city delegates who will
vote with the country. This will defeat
the slate-makers, the jolly short-haired
boys who for so many years have man
aged party affairs for the g. o. p. here
abouts.l
THIS ORC FINO FIGHT.
A HERALD reporter spent hours yester-
day in the vain attempt to find man
that would confess that he belonged to
the Orc Fino Club. Even Statesman
Appel and Theo. Summerland dis
the honor. 1t came to the
reporters ears, through a third party,
that Walter Moore was standing up to
the rack bare as it is of political fodder
and proclaiming himself still member
OF the malodorous organization. Moore
is reported as stating that he and his
friends had driven all the hoodlums out
Of the club, and that those left were
as the Republican party always
stands, for a free vote and fair count
when the vote is on the right side
and the count puts Hayes in the
White House. Some one advised the re-
porter to give up his quest, on the ground
that if all the hoodlums were driven out
of the Orc Fino Club, members must be
ever and further between than are the
visits of the angels. Apropos
,f the scarcity of members in the club,
,he following was handed to the reporter:
Los ANGELES, July %, 1888.
To The President and Members of the ORC Fino
Club.
GENTLEMEN: I hereby resign the office of
h1rd Vice President and tender this my resig-
latiOn as member Of your club, sal I resigna-
ion to take effect imme diately. Respectfully
HENRY SCHwANNECKE.
pEPEECT f,rNrr r,tpN
That was most instructive scene in
he hall on Monday night when the vote
buyers, bribers, ballot-box suffers and
oallot-box snatchers so glibly banded
he grand old name of gentlemen
about upon their foul, profane and whis-
zy-laden lips! Here are a few of the
pretty episodes of this meeting held by
he party OF "A]l Decency," Of sAll In
held in the name of "God
md Morality" as meant to be an expon-
mt OF "Great Moral Ideas"
One statesman said: "I know from per-
'onal observation that certain men were
1t the Fourth Ward polling place anxious
% vote, but because they would not vote
,he Boyce ticket they were not allowed
% VOTE"
Another then rose up, and looking at
Woods, who is accused of the box steal
ng, said: "There are number of men
n the room who have no right to be
present, and that is one of them. Point
ng at Woods.) That is the man who
;hrew the ballots out of the window"
Woods jumped up and said: Don't
Do TOO last, young man. You attempted
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