The herald., 1893-10-21
TIPS ABOUT STATE POLITICS,
A Whole Lot of Campaigning
Under Way.
What the Local Statesmen Are En-
deav0ring to Bring About.
Some Interesting Gossip About tho Pro-
gramme Which IL Supposed to
Have Been Arranged by the
State Politicians.

II any one thinks the present state
administration is not looking to the fu-
ture he should buy himself telescope !;
ordinary glasses won't assist him suffi-
ciently.
The plans are being laid very quietly,
and orders have gone out to fight ex-
ceedingly shy OF the newspapers.
But just the same there is = possibil-
ity OF informing the rank and file of the
Republican party, conidentially, OF
what is going on under the surface.
A slate is being made up with exceed
ing cunning with which to catch the
reluctant voter, and the work is being
done now right in Los Angeles.
This slate may be designated, for want
OF better term, as the administration
programme. Those eminent statesmen,
Mauritio Roscius Higgins, the private
secretary of Governor Markham, Dan
Burns, Hsrbor Commissioner Bassett,
our own original Hervey Lndley, and
Tom Lewis are figuring pertinaciously
in the matter as far as their powers will
permit.
There is very little which these gen.
tlemen do not think they can accom-
plieh, and the conclaves around the
Nadeau hotel have been productive, Of
results.
Various state Offices have been par
celled out with view to keeping a
clutch as is clutch on some, if not all,
OF the situation.
Hervey Lindley and his myrmidons
have contracted to deliver O very large
and powerful com bination of delegates
in aid of ''the programme. and sope of
a most magnificent character are to be
thrown to the Cerberus of the south.
The head OF the ticket lies between
Irwin G. Stump and Justice w. f. Fitz-
gerald, and there isn't any manner of
doubt that Hervey is working tooth and
toenail for the latter. With how much
authority from the able and widely ad.
mired justice is problematical. A good
many friends OF his are telling him to
shake Hervey.
What the coterie OF Statesmen wish
for is to secure the naming of the gov
ernor, and they propose to be very
liberal as far as the rest Of the ticket is
concerned.
They wllput up Lieut. Governor Red
dick for the same position. "You see"
said Hervey yesterday, while expound-
ing the plan to q coy henchman, "that
gives US the noun tain countless"
Then with Oregon Sanders of Tulare
county the gang will capture the San
Joaquin valley. The office for which he
will be put up is that of attorney gem
eral. This will be in the nature OF pro.
motion for Oregon, for he is now deputy
attorney general.
Pratt OF Humboldt county is the
choice for surveyor general and his &C.
lection covers not multitude of sins,
but another section to be swung into
line.
There was considerable difficulty
about clerk of the supreme court, but
j. Steppacher of San Francisco was
finally slated. He is now secretary of
the state board of health.
1here has not been definite decision
yet aboutfthe state controller. Siebe of
San Francisco or Controller E. p. Col
gan will come in, but the arrangements
are yet open for this office.
For secretary of state Trowbridge HI.
Ward, our own county clerk, has been
slated, and is expected to strengthen
the ticket in the south. "Trow" was a
little bit uncertain what he would have,
but finally settled on secretary of state.
At first he wanted to be clerk Of the su-
preme court, and then drifted into the
vortex of the attorney-generalship, but
was at last induced to swing Southern
California into line for the ticket as Sec
retary of state.
Don't you see the fine Italian hand of
some Atachiavel in the list as made up.
1t is great and that this is not mere
ha f,x<,.
geographical genius of the combine,
Danny Burnes, Phil Crimmins or Neddy
Niles, has got in his work in great shape.
why, to be sure" says Pratt of
Humboldt, "I'd like to be survsyor-gen-
eral, and you can count on me for pro-
gramme' work."
I Judge VIM. Junius Mckinley, who
aspires to the supreme bench, can see a
very large sized and comfortable chair
awaiting him. They do say that Hervey
Lindley has assumed the direction of
the judges campaign in addition to
lifting his guDernatorial candidate
neatly but firmly into the chair. There
.is absolutely no limit to Hervey's mag
nanimity. He would give everyone an
Office if there were enough to 60 round,
except Judge w. III. Clark. That is
where Hervey draws the line.
And see how he has contracted. From
now on until the convention meets he
will pick up delegate here and dele
gate there, and, claiming about three
times as many as he can deliver, will
make himself felt.
There is possibility that he may
engineer his especial proteges into mag
niicent unpopularity. But any one
who thinks Hervey is not making the
other gang uneasy and disturbing their
slumbers ought to see the way they are
hobnobbing with him around the
Nadeau.
There is rotund statesman who ia
making great point of assisting his
friends in their ambition. 1t is Tom
Lewis.
just what Tom wants has not yet been
revealed, but there are several nice
places for which he will resign his pres-
ent job and he must be consulted upon
the programme" or he will throw all
the weight OF his influence agsinst it.
The programme" "as outlined, is es
far as the crowd has gone as yet. They
have been talking it over in the hotels.