Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-06
A Gas Explosion.

Shafter was sacked and burned.
A Gas Explosion.
TACOMA, WASH, August A dis
patch from Carbonada, this county,
stating that a gas explosion occurred
this morning in mine, killing Henry
]. Jones and 7. B. Morgan. Thomas
Williams was injured. The bodies were
horribly mangled. The explosion was
caused by miner opening his lamp to
gas. No damage was done to the mine.
Mckenna will have no opposition for
denomination from his own party in the
third congressional district. II. G. Nc
Pike has announced that he will be the
Democratic candidate against Mr.. Nc
Kenna if he rs given the nomination.
McPike formerly ran against McKenna,
but was beaten by 2,525 votes, he having
lost Alameda county by 632 votes.
The latest is that the Markham lead
ers will 60 for Frank L. Coombs, pop
ular Native Son, for lieutenant-governor
and by so doing will receive the vote of
Napa county on the first ballot. If they
support E. G. Waite for secretary of
state they will weaken Morrow's
strength greatly. They say they now
have $40 votes on the first ballot, and
will have more by the time the conven-
ton meets San Francisco Stock Re-
port.
Present indications are that Colonel
Markham will head the Republican
ticket and Mayor Pond the Democratic.
The states with these names on them
may be broken, but the forces are not in
sight to work material change. The
Democratic nominee halls from the CEN
trail counties and the Republican from
the southern counties. On the senator
ship the situation will be reversed. The
most prominent Democratic candidate
for senator is Mr.. White, and Senator
Stanford will, it seems, have no op-
ponent in the Republican party.-[San
Francisco Call, July 31st.
Apropos of the county division talk,
called out by the Courier's late sensa-
tional article, the Ontario Observer ex
presses the opinion that the time will
come when such step may be de-
manded, but that it has not yet arrived.
1t continues "The Courier's efforts to
hold our imperial county intact are pol
itic and commendable in the eyes of the
denizens of the county seat, but we fear
it cannot exude enough of the principle
of conference to hold its disaffected parts
together many years longer"
1t struck me as singular travesty
upon the so-called purity OF American
politics, to see, at the Democratic county
convention of last week, such man as
Charles P. Kearney with unblushing af-
frontery assume to direct those immeas-
urably his superiors. A man who, after
occupying trusted position in the Iro-
quois Club, had to admit shortage in
his accounts; man only saved from the
convict's garb by an almost criminal
good-nature on the part of his fellow
members in the club by their voting an
assessment to make good his defalca-
tions, presumed to stand upon the floor
of the convention and without tinge of
shame dictate his wishes, and had suf-
ficient following to insure his election as
one of the delegates to the state conven-
ton, and where he, as such, will have
something to say about the nomination
of the candidate of the Democratic party
for governor This is only an instance !;
the Republican party has its Kearneys
as well.-[ [Gossiper, in Los Angeles
World.
Says the San Francisco Call of the
2Sth ult.:
Walter S. Moore, of Los Angeles, who
is in the city in the interests of Colonel
Markham, insists that the vote of Los
Angeles county will be given to Coleman
in the convention at San Jose. He
urges that the claims which are being
made by the adherents of Pond in that
county are unwarranted by facts and
that the result of the first ballot will
show the truth of this.
While this may be the sentiment OF
the politicians, it is evidently not that
of the voters at large, as is shown by a
letter of recent date from Democrat to
the editor of the Los Angeles HERALD.
He says:
81 have personally interviewed 564
Democrats in this city since Monday as
to their preferences for governor, and
have found the following result: Pond,
3S7; Coleman, 1926; English, 49, Berry,
6; Del Vale, 5; White, 4; the nominee,
This would seem to be proof conclusive
that "Buckley's young man" is not such
universal favorite with the people of
the south as his subsidized followers
would make out. 1t looks just now, in
fact, as if Coleman would have to depend
for his strength largely upon the efforts
of his friend Buckley, who is understood
to have promised him the greater part of
the San Francisco delegation on the
opening ballots. This would give him a
certain show OF strength, but would also,
it is safe to assume, solidify the country
delegations against him, because OF the
opposition to anything that savors OF
Buckleyism.
A prominent Democrat, in discussing
the situation yesterday, said: 81 am in
a position to ascertain the sentiment OF
the country on this question, and l can
say positively that Pond is the general
favorite. In the last three weeksI have
interviewed prominent men, merchants
and lawyers, as well as politicians, from
as many as halfthe counties in the state,
and in nearly every instance 1 have
found that Pond was the strongest man.
The almost universal reply to my inter-
rogations would be: "Well, you under
stand, of course, that we have a local
candidate, but Pond is our second
choice" By this l am convinced that
he is by long odds the favorite, and re-
gard his nomination as foregone con-
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