Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-19
A GAME OF HAZARD,
Lindley Holds the Cards and
Wins the Stakes.
Magee May Loom But the Mayors
Not In 1t.
The Peculiar Practical Politics Prevalep,
at Yesterdays City Republican
Primaries-The Bosses and
Machine Win Every thing.

Hervey Lindley, 10 delegates; Henry
I. Hazard, 2 delegates. This is the re-
suit of the primary election held yester-
day, and shows the strength the two
Republican rivals for congressional hon
ors will have in the sixth district con /.
vention to be held at Santa Cruz out of
q delegates apportioned to this city.
AT nine points throughout the city
there was music and Doodle in che air
yesterday. In each of the nine wards
there was polling place where dele
gates were voted for to represent the e.
o. p. in the county convention to be held
at Turnverein hall on Thursday, which
will elect AZ delegates to the state and
congressional conventions.
The reason why the brethren failed to
dwell in peace and harmony was owing
to the fact that some of them desired to
see Hervey Lindlsy secure the indorse-
ment of Los Angeles for congress, while
others wanted the honorable mayor.
Henry 7. Hazard, to have the compli.
ment. Thus it came to pass that in
every ward the lines were drawn. There
was a Lindley and an anti Lindley
ticket. :
Early in the day the Lindley men
were claiming everything in sight, and
with reason, too. They had the organ
ization, backed by the machine, and at
primary this is great point. As the
day wore op, however, it became appar.
ent that Mr.. Hazard and his friends
were quite numerous. The way Hazard
votes went in at a number of poll
ing places made the hair of the
Lindley men turn grey. They saw
plainly that they were going to be
swamped if things continued thusly.
The result was that measures were at
once taken to counteract the unexpected
strength that the mayor had developed.
Hurried consultations were held with
the grand tactotum at his Office in the
California bank building by several ward
managers. Then followed grand hus-
tie for Lindley votes.
Mayor Hazard was in the field person.
ally commanding his troops in the sew
eral wards. He visited all polling places
and challenged voters in each with en-
phaeis. The Lindley men did not like
this, and some of them talked roughly
to his honor. That gentleman, though.
contented himself by giving as good as
he received, No blood was shed, nor
was breach Of the peace committed.
One thing characterized yesterdays
primary. 1t is feature of all primary
elections held down in this section.
That was the charming freedom with
which great many voted. Some would
vote in the Second Ward and then drop
down in the Fourth and deposit another
ballot. Others voted down in the Fifth
and then came back to the Third and
put in ticket there. This may be all
right, but it certainly looks strange.
The peaceful serenity of the first
ward was but little disturbed. At the
polling place all was quiet, despite the
fact that there was an opposition ticket
| in the field.
BuG it was in the second ward that
there was a husky fight. The Lindley
ticket bore the caption, Caucus
Ticket" while I'll g opposition headed
their twenty-six names, pledged to No
Candidate. The polling place was at
the southwest corner of the old court
house. Here the clans gathered sharp
at IL o'clock noon. The Lindley forces
were marshalled by E. J.. Niles and
Joseph Manning, while John G.. Wray
and Horace Appel looked after the anti
Lindley interests. Mr.. Wray took
stand by the box and challenged
about every fourth vote that
went in. Mr.. Henderson,
short hand reporter with book in hand
took the name and address of every
voter who stepped up and voted. This
was done to prevent any stuffing of the
box. as it was rumored 100 Lindley tick
cts had been jabbed in early.
But the result in the second is what
surprised everybody. 1t was distress
ingly close. On an average the Lindley
ticket got 266 votes to 264 for the oppo-
sition. Some of the Lindley men had
close call, though. 4. j. Jones was
elected by one vote, and Judge R. B.
Carpenter by two.
Along about 8 O'Clock Mr.. Hall, of
Keagle fame, thought that he saw w.
III. Davis, judge of election, throwing
Hazard tickets on the floor instead of
putting them in the box. He intimated
that il he caught him doing it again he
would pull him through the window.
The matter was settled without pass
age at armss Johnny Wray, the Haz-
ard manager OF the second, had his left
eye in mourning. This was not the re-
suit, though, of any of yesterdays work.
In the Third ward 440 votes were cast
and Mr.. Lindley walked away with the
baggage in good form. He got 27O votes
to Mr.. Hazards 170 The polling place
was at the city hall. There was no
trouble here. Peace and quiet reigned
supreme during tn entire afternoon.
although two policemen were on hand to
see to it that no scrapping was INDUCED
| in by the rival factions.
In the Fourth ward United States
Marshal Gard and Sam Adams looked
out for the Lindley ticket. They did
their work we'll, for 1877 votes went in
for their ticket, and only III for the
Hazard ticket.
In the Fifth ward there was a lusty
battle in which Mayor Hazard came of
a victor. 1t is his own ward, but the
Lindley men thought they would carry
it Just for fun. Bob Widney. g. w.
Pendleton and City Clerk Teed did
some tall hustling for Lindley and worked
in S5 votes for him, and W. I. Williams
and Judge Silent, though, succeeded in
downing the boys, for the reason that
the opposition ticket got in ITO votes.
The Sixth ward went anti-Lindlev.
too. Here ex-Councilman Hamilton
was the Lindley captain, while William
Niles, not like his Second ward name
sake, was doing what he could for Haz-
ard. The Hazard delegates were elected.
getting 113 votes to 58 for the opposition.
In the seventh ward 303 votes were
cast, of which the Lindley ticket polled
1Q3 Fred Smith kent his aaola nva oy,