Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-05
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1879
The Republican Pot BubbIing

Although the campaign is distant, the
Republican pot, through the aid OF q
seething fire in the party ranks, is begin
ming to boil and bubble. The fight is
forced thus early by the determined atti-
tude of Governor Waterman to leave no
effort untried, no stone unturned, to
secure the nomination OF the party as
the head of the ticket. At first the
wiseacres pretended to fout the idea
that Waterman could by any possibility
get the nomination. But the Governor
is far more astute than he was given
credit for. He has evinced not only
q determined tenscity of purpose,
but he has shown a great deal of unex-
pected generalship as party leader.
Taking advantage of the fact that to him
self, more than to all else put together
is due the location of State Reform
School in this county and branch In
sane Asylum in San Bernardino county,
he has conciliated great number OF Re-
publlcans in both these counties. He
has also made himself solid with San
Diego, and stands we'll in Santa Bar bara
and Ventura. These five counties he
has made his field of battle, and it looks
very much like foregone conclusion
that he will carry their delega-
tions solid for him into the State
Republican Convention. If he should
do this, we see nothing serious in the
way of his nomination. The fight against
him will be made in this county. 1t will
be concentrated here for two reasons
First, because the Los Angeles delegation
is the largest from this section OF the
State; and, second, because if his
strength can be broken here it will end
his contest. But the Governor is not SC
weak in this county as some of his oppo-
nents seem to believe. what he lacks
just now in numbers is made up in the
qualification of his supporters for the
work that tells at the primaries. His
friends are experienced organizers of
ward and precinct politics. They know
how to bring out the right men at the
right time, and how to operate
the machine at the start 80 that
it will land in the County Convention the
delegates required to select the wanted
delegation to the State Convention. 1t
looks very much to US as if the Water
man faction will control the next Re-
publican County Convention, and in that
event the Governor will 60 to the State
Convention with the delegations of the
five Southern counties solid.
No other candidate for the nomination
for Governor will go into the State Con-
vention with anything like the strength
Waterman will have, with the Southern
counties at his back, and it will be a
strange outcome, if with this large,
active, experienced and devoted support,
he fail to secure his placs at the head of
the ticket.
When the Governor said that his
platform was "strictly business" he
meant what he said. 1t was no idle or
empty phrase. He has made it his bus
mess to lead the party to nominate him
for reelection, and he will come so near
doing it that it will make the heads of
those who oppose him feel as if they had
come in contact with buzz saw. The
polished aud hifalutin wing of the &. 0. ..
have affected to look with contempt upon
the Governor. Because hei rather bluff
aud coarse and illiterate they thought he
could not possibly make headway in his
ambitious flight. They forgot that the
cold man" has a heap OF hors'
sense and that he is very pop
ular with the haysesd element of the
party. They also overlooked the fact
that he has 30 adroitly steered his courses
as to have rallied around him many ol
the shrewdest workers in the Rspub
licau ranks. And if they continue to
shut their eyes to his present and grow
ing strength they will awake some fine
morning to find that they must either
do their level best to elect him as the
standard bearer of their party, or gel
deeply snow ed under by an aroused an
triumphant Democracy.
WHILST the Council is ostensibly look
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