The herald., 1893-10-19
PHIL Is HERE SURE i"
MR.. CRIMMINS Is INTERESTED IN
SEMI-TROPIC POLITICS..
Hervey Lindley lie Not Dead Nor sleepeth
But He fs Right in the Midst of = Lot
OF Political Propositions-w what
San Bernardino Wants.

Phil Crimmins, he of last years ex-
periences in San Francisco, is in the
city. He says he is not here to talk pol
itics but to play the races.
Just how much faith to place in tie
words of the cheap big boss" in this
respect is difficult to determine, for there
have bsen some very curious gatherings
arou nd the Nadeau hotel, and mysteri-
GUS conferences between other "big
bosses" :"
To use Phil's fsvorite expression when
he lapses into classical language. the
political pot is being stirred, ''sure."
Burns won't be in at all in the next
fight, sure" he said yesterday.
Then he turned to Ned Niles, who has
been arranging matters with Phil, and
Ned said, "sure." Senator r. B. Car
penter was also standing around, and
the ''big boss" looked at him. The sem
ator allowed that sphynx-like other eye
of his to assume its most cunning droop
and shifted suspiciously.
But Hervey Lindley, you bet, Hervey
was there, took Phil off to one side and
whispered in his ear, and Judge McKin-
ley of the superior court looked benig-
nantly through his glasses and appeared
to be smiling through his forest OF whis-
kers.
When Crimmins got back from the
side he dropped another pregnant re-
mark and beamed graciously upon his
confreres: "We'll get away with that
| fight up there, sure"
Ned Mines murmured: swell, won
DER" and then there was great enthusi-
asm.
This was all very mysterious, but sp-
peared to satisfy every body.
From the very best of inside sources it
is said that Phil Crimmins labors under
the impression that he mas very lively
and firm hold upon the fortunes OF the
Republican party in the north, and that
he has been able to impress that belief
very thoroughly into the minds of va
rious bosses, big and little, in the south.
Since his arrival in the city he has had
numerous talks with people, and par
ticularly with Hervey Lindley.
Amy body who thinks Hervey is polit-
ically inert, 80 to speak, is counting
without his host. He may be dead OF
course many people think that, but rigor
mortis has not set in yet, judging from
his claims to Crimmins. 1t ia a very
general rumor round about that Hervey
ls working like beaver foI Justice Fitz-
gerald o. the supreme court for Gov
ernor. Hervey has been up to San
Francisco several times lately, and it 10
supposed to have been in connection
with this very matter.
Justice Fitzgerald, who is now here
during the fall term of the supreme
court, is very reticent about the subject
of his being gubernatorial candidate,
but it does not displease him to have it
mentioned. He neither affirms nor de-
MES, and those who know him best think
that he will have a very firm grasp on
the nomination before he will let go his
hold on his present position. s
But the funniest thing of all is the
way Senator Carpenter is cleaving unto
the southern part of the state just now
as his residence. The senator is very
much diegruntled because he did not be-
come the Southern Pacifc's attorney
and slip into the vacancy caused by the
death OF Creed Raymond. Notwith-
standing his great services for the COM
pany he was passed by and is looking
very eagerly now to retain his grip up
on the senatorial district, which he has
represented from San Francisco for
three years past.
Said he yesterday, with growl: SIT
is a slander and libel to say | live in
San Francisco. have never given up
my residence in Los Angeles. never
have moved"
The senator is coming down more
frequently these days to see his con-
stituents.
Itis not alone in Los Angeles that
these aspiring citizens are looking into
the future with expectant eyes. San
Bernardino county has modest crop OF
Republican candidates for nearly every
place on the state ticket. There is Ed
Seymour, a pronounced candidate for
governor. John @. Lynch, sembly-
man, wants to be on the state board of
equalization. John Brown is casting
his weather optic in the direction of the
railroad commission, and Scipio Craig
has the ambition OF his life to be satis-
fed in being made state printer. This
is not all, however, Colonel Douglass
will not be satisfied unless he receives
the nomination fer state controller.
There is nothing AZ al mesger in the
way San Bernardino' Gcssaty is figuring
on the feshpotH. .N. *
From all these indicsk it can very
readily be seen that a%pEI Statesman
Crimmins has arranged Ahalags satisfsc-
torily to himself and Negng Niles he
had better take run os3S,ta San Ber-
nardino and connubiate wish the yeDtle-
men mentioned. -