The herald., 1894-10-17
THE LOCAL FIELD OF POLITICS.
An Old Timers View Of the Re-
publican Situation.
Candidates Named for the Nom Parti-
san School Board.
Result OF the Meeting of the Joint Com
nittes Last Night-somo Local
Political Notes and
Gossip.

publican headquarters on North Main
street, which fact struck the HERALD
man as peculiar, inasmuch as the gentle-
man in question has been for years q
leading light in the ranks OF the G. o. p.,
and is at this writing candidate for
Justice OF the peace in one Of our outly-
ing districts.
When approached by the scribe with
the inquiry of. whats on your mind
old man ? don't things come smooth for
you in this so-called yellow dog year,
his reply was framed In such vigor-
GUS English that it won't bear repeti-
tion in print, but ae it was followed up
by tele OF political woe which carried
with it a whole mass of interesting facts
the HERALD man decided to put it down
tor future reference.
He said: Have you ever considered
the position the Republican candidates
for Office in this country are in this
year?
'In the first place, everybody is dis
gusted with the state ticket and the
way it was nominated. Why. down in
my district every rsncher and store
keeper knows everything about Dan
Burns Doodle, Hervey Lindley and
Charley Webber, and when we attempt
to get up meeting and hire hall, the
whole town begins TO wonder who OF us
Ia handling the sack. 1t has got &C that
am afraid to mail letter to the CEN
tral com mittee for fear the fact will leak
out, and in consequence may lose q
vote or two.
when I come up here, as Ibid today,
l have to hunt up somebody to identify
me to the new crowd who are managing
the snap, and they have to locate my
district on the map.
"Then this A. P. A. business is raie-
ing the mischief with our votere. When
I told them up in the committee room
that something had to be done down
our way to stop the stampede to the
Democratic party, they told me that
they had provided for that and had
made up list of the Spanish voters
In the county and had found that the
Spanish vote had been over-estimated,
and that their detection would make no
difference anyhow.
They will find out, or at leaet
will, and the Spanish and Americans
who are married into Spanish families
In my district will vote solid against the
whole Republican state aud county
ticket. l know that l am done up, and
L ldVc llNou htAOAS bDou lOl yShIbs
"Why, Just look at the case of Martin
g. Aguirre, who received the unanimous
Endorsement of the party and was re-
nominated for sheriff by acclamation in
1890. This same sentiment OF A. p. A
ism in itO infancy then defeated him
because of his nativity by nearly $500
majority, change of nearly 2000 votes.
Now that they want his assistance in
this campaign. they put him up at the
head of the list OF vice p.esdents at the
Perkins meeting last Saturday night.
'If he wanted All appointment under
any of the A. P. A. candidates L wonder
where he would get Off?
''The Republicans down my way feel
Just this way. Here we were on the
eve of big victory when Dan Burns
pushes Estee to the front and forces him
down our throsss. Then Hervey Lind
ley and Charley Webber jobbed the re-
formers in the county convention, and
by shrewd political wire-pulling they
grabbed the county ticket, or the pat
ronage end OF it.
''Charley w ebber took care Of the short
hairs while Lindley, through his old
partners of the H. III. Boyce regime, J i,
j. Gospsr. II. @. Register, Aaron Smith
and their friends of the A. P. A. cour-
ellis, scooped the long-hairs, and the job
was done.
''rhey calculated on tidal wave to
carry them through, but the Democratic
I party took advantage of the situation,
: and as result we are in the midst of q
hot campaign with live local issues that
interest every voter in the state being
preached from Democratic platforms,
while old Estee and his machine politi-
cal hackers have turned on an endless
stream of tariff talk as blind.
"Why, James McLschlan ia nicknamed
Huntington's Strsddle down our way.
and all because every voter in the dis
trict knowns the intimate political busi-
ness relations that exist between Dan
Burns, Hervey Lindey, McLachlan,
Charley Webber and the railroad.
"Then the Evening Express is called
the railroad paper by our people and it
is making the same kind of fight for
McLachlan that it did for Lindley in
1892.
why, friend of mine who keeps
scrap book, called my attention the
other day to Lindley's speeches in 1892
and the Express's reports of the meet.
ings and its editorials. and barring the
harbor question, when compared with
McLachlan's speeches and the recent
Express editorials they look as much
alike as peas in pod.
1--WE don't take any stock in McLsch-
lan's professions OF snti-monopolv.
Burns, L,ndley and Webber wouldn't
have nominated him if he wasn't all
right. He never came out squarely for
Gan Pedro until George Patton forced
him to and we are all on to that and
don't you forget it.
'Ali the farmers down my way are
on to the railroad game, and another
thing, young man, which you may have
overlooked, is that the Express while IL
says McLachlan is for San Pedro never
says how it stands on the question.
Eow does it stand anyhow, do you
know ?'
The scribe thoughtfully scratched his
head, and remem beriog the fight made
for Lindley (who is not for San Pedro)
two years ago, by the ExpresH. confessed
candidlv and diecreetly that he thought
the Express, to say the least, could not
be considered very sincere, no matter
what 1T might say at the present time,
ns ii Lindley had been elected he would
certainly have carried out Mr.. Hunting
toms wishen regarding the matter
'Just So" said tho old man, I'VE beat
L'ndley becauee We knew that, and the
Express can't throw dust in our eyes
TINS time either, we ara all for Patton
on That Issue; we've known him from
boy up, and we know that when he aaye
thing he means it. and he always
speaks from the shoulder. besides he's q
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