The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-20

and the signs are also that the superin'
tendent OF schools will not be Los
Angeles man.
Col. G. Wiley Wells and ]. f. Crank
have been up here for two or three days
and the impression that they owned
Los Angeles county had been carefully
advertised everywhere. Crank 10 oaten-
sibly pushing the interests of Jewett oil
Lsmanda park for railroad commission.
er. but as he has been apparently work.
ing without any appreciable following,
Crank is not in the com bine, his efforts
have thus far been futile.
Colonel bob" Northam, the aubur n
haired aurora borealis from Los Angeles,
is here doing politics in mild way for
Wickham, who is out for member OF
the board OF equalization in the Fourth
district. Joe Brown is likewise in this
fight and George l.. Arnold of Los An
geles, who has been making q still hunt
for the office. Crank Ia slated for q win
ner by the knowing ones.
Captain Cross is marked for railroad
commissioner, aud Is a likely winner.
The members OF the Los Angeles county
delegation say they are going to make q
strong fight to pull Mckinley through.
snd ct the same time fix Willard for
lieutenant governor and Ward for clerk
of the supreme court, and they are dis
covering that it is big load to carry
them all, in view OF the fact that the
gravel train has arrived from San
Francisco and COL Dan Burma is having
hard time in feeding the hungry office
seekers from the bay.
The majority of the Los Angeles dele
CATION are stopping at the Golden Eagle
and as q rule the delegates from the
southern counties are the best class of
men here.
Hervey Lindley is at the Golden Ea-
gle with quite following OF workers
from the lower country, aud he has
been damning Drank and Wiley Wells
for representing that they carried the
Los Angeles county delegation in their
inside pockets. As q matter OF fact, no
one has al absolute mortgage ON the
delegation, and every trade has to be
carefully and fully laid before them in
all its details to make ii binding. Wells
and Crank had staked out lot of trade
in the judiciary fight, but could not
deliver the goods.
McLachlan has made q great many
friends here, and the Pasadena boys
are the life OF the southern contingent.
Nearly every delegate you meet on the
street is wearing an Estee badge, though
occasionally an sgriculturist turns up
who is talking about that great and
good man Chapman.
Judge Williams, the legal Porthos OF
Ventura, 10 very sanguine over his
chances OF reaching the supreme bench,
ga he is satisfied that there will be some
slip in the Los Angeles programme by
which he can get into line.
w. W. Seaman is busy mailing dele.
gates in his behalf for state superin-
tendent OF schools, but he has a dosing
fight on his hands. The incumbent,
Anderson, and Captain Black OF Ventu-
ra are both pulling strong for this office,
which is slated to go outside of Los An
geles county.
1 just met Trow Ward with letter
pad and pencil in the lobby. figuring on
his chances. He says be has nine can
didates against him, all Of whom hail
from territory 100 miles from San Fran
cisco, and he thinks he has an out
sider's chance to capture the Office OF
clerk OF the supreme court. II he does
he will be playing in big luck.
There is one feature about the Los
Angeles delegation this year. and that
is. white it required to DO handled with
extreme delicacy by the leaders, it is
ready to programme, and there has
been tacit coalition of the Southern