Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-22
WHAT SHOULD Be DONE?
THE Democratic Congressional
Convention this Week.
A General View Of the Situation in
the Two Great Parties.
mhe 'Orimmfns-KelIy Combine Endeavor.
ing to Dictate Republican Legis-
latiwe Nominations In this
County.

IQufbudy ucAs, hb p'us, Ln0 DemO
cratic congressional convention of tn,
Sixth district will meet at Santa Bar
bara to nominate a candidate for con
gress, or to decide not to nominate one
The convention will comprise eighty-si,
delegates, forty-three of whom will
come from Los Angeles county. The
great majority of the delegation from
this county will leave on the 80 train
on Wednesday morning. Some, how
ever. will leave this morning, in order
to be on hand early, while still Others
will 60 up Tuesday morning.
The congressional convention of the
Democratic party of this district this
year is fraught with unusual interest.
1t is conceded that the conditions are
right this time to defeat the Republican
nominee for congress if the proper
course is pursued at Santa Barbara.
Thus far the only pronounced candi-
date has been j. De Barth Shorb. Mr..
Shorb's friends have for sometime been
pushing hia claims to the nomination.
There seems to be sentiment existing,
favorable to him. The feeling is that if
he wants the nomination and feels as
though he was physically able to stand
the arduous work that an active cam
paign would demand of him, he should
have it.
MIXING IN LOS ANGELES AFFAIRS.
The political firm of Crimmins &
Kelley, of San Francisco, are not con-
tent with handling, manipulating and
debating the affairs Of the Republican
party of the city and county of San
Francisco. There they have all power
full sway. Their word is law. But they
seem to think that the San Francisco
field is limited and it is understood that
they are essaying TO control in measure
the Republican party of Los Angeles
county.
CRMMINs AND KELLY AT WORK.
The Crimmins-Kelly combination
represents all that is malodorous in
politics. OF course, they do not care
who fills the local offices down here.
But what they do want is to control the
eight votes that Los Angeles county will
have in the next legislature.
With this end in view, Crimmins and
Kelly are doing all in their power to fix
things so as to be able to handle the
legislative nominations to be made by
the Republican party in this county.
They already have a representative on
the ground, who is doing his best to ar
range things. The gentleman is Charles
F. Webber. He formerly resided here,
but, until recently, has lived in San
Francisco. He was a delegate to the
last Republican state convention from
the Eight ward of this city. Mr.. r.Webber
is clever gentleman, an adept politi-
clan, and an able "ixer."
THE WARD BOSS.
It is really amusing to observe how
the Republican ward bosses and their
strikers are endeavoring to force the
county central committee, which meets
today, to sit down upon the advocates of
precinct primaries. The ward boss and
the ward striker has all of sudden be-
He is opposed to holding precinct pri-
maries for the reason that to do 30 would
cost considerable money, which he
thinks would be useless expenditure.
This is what he tells the general public,
but as matter of fact If ward primaries
are not held, the grip OF the ward boss is
going to be materially weakened. There
is no use of talking, he cannot handle
five or six primaries or polling places as
easily as he can one. It is a struggle be-
tween the decent element in the party
and the hobo element. 1t remains to be
seen which one will triumph with the
committee.
ALI of the candidates will be on hand
today to see that the festive jobber does
not get in his work at the committee
meeting. The fine italian hands of the
leaders of the Republican ring now
handling things in this county will be
easily observed. though, in the action
the committee takes, The ring controls
the organization and its behests must
and will be 6beyed.
No matter, though, wbatsaction the
committee takes, it is bound to be un-
satisfactory and to create discomfort.
No Republican, unless he is in the ring,
stands any show whatever. He might
just as well make up his mind that he is
not in it unless he is within the cabal.
Wait until after the primaries and the
Republican county conventions are over.
Then will the howl of discomfort 90 up
from the defeated candidates, the like Of
which was never heard in Rome or else
where. One prominent candidate who,
two years ago, was very neatly knitted in
the house OF friends and beaten in the
convention, said yesterday:
s'That's all right. If / am given the
same kind of deal this year that got
two years ago in the convention, there
will be somebody beaten on the county
ticket, and it won't be the sheriff,
either. The ring gave it to me in the
last convention. L had never inter-
fered with any of them, but had
always helped them all. But they
found that they could use some one
else, 30 they just put it into me and
broke the blade off. If am handled in
the same artistic manner this year, l
propose to even up with the gang of
Bosses"
And this is spirit of anarchy, feel
ing of unrest, being bred in the Repub-
lican organizations.
STRONG CANDIDATE.
The friends of M. P. Snyder insist that
de make the race in the seventy-ffth
assembly district on the Democratic
ticket this year. Mr., Snyder would
make hard race. The district is
Republican by considerable majority,
but Mr.: Snyder would overcome it. He
has resided in Los Angeles for ten years
past, and has justly earned o reputation
for honesty and integrity of character
that is unexcelled. The seventy-ffth