The herald., 1895-10-08
Candidates for Mayor Who Are
prominently Mentioned"
UNDERCURRENT OF POLITICS
The Several Combinations Which Are
at Work
City Officials Who Will Seek a Second Term
and Those Who Will LOOK Out
for Another Job

Although it IS as yet twelve months
before the next municipal campaign
will.have been fairly launched the vari
Gus departments of the city hall are al
ready teeming with the many phases of
the peculiar brands of politics which will
next year be done. While there have been
as yet no booms outwardly launched, the
candidates for everything in sight are
already as plentiful as ideas about the
Press club. Scarcely move is made at
any of the weekly council meetings
which does not have for its real object
the applause of the grand stand and of
the blcachers as we'll.
The candidates for mayor about the
city hall, who have so far tacitly init
mated that their separate fate is in the
h ands of their separate circle of friends,
are Frank RAIDER, President of the Coun.
Gil Freeman G. iced, Councilman Frank
s. Munson and Councilman Nj. 2. Snyder.
The former being at present In ONCE. has
the advantage over all of his com petitors
of being able TO simply rest upon his
oars. The mayors political future is en-
tirely in the hands OF that astnte m aker
of men, the Hon. Hervey Iindley. with
that best of private secretaries, Walter +.
X. Parker, acting as political aide de
all inquirers that he is not seeking a sec
ond term, and that the next municipal
election is too far off anyhow for him to
bother his head by borrowing trouble
which he may escape. The word has,
however, been passed along the line
Burns. the king of San Francisco, has
again SHE'D his castor into the ring and
that his representative in this part of
the state is the Honorable Hervey Lind
ley.
The initial skirmish of the municipal
campaign of next gear is 10 be the state
campaign and the several county conven-
tions incidental thereto. If the Lindley-
Burns influence is there dominant
RAIDERS denomination for mayor will
follow as a matter OF course. II not,
The portly form OF Col. Frank s. Nun
son looms up in the distance as the pos
sible David to lead the assem- bled Repub
lican hosts next year to victory. Nun
son has had two terms in the council and
he Is looking with longing eye in the
direction Of RAIDERS cushioned chair, for
new worlds to conquer. Munson is from
the Third ward and is chairman of the
special com mittee which is building the
new school houses. He is also chairman
of the board of public works. These
things are simply referred to here be-
cause they may in one way and another
have an effect upon the contest next
year. and they may not. Be that as it
may, the LinGley RAIDER com blnation has
its weather eye upon Munson. and bye
and bye there may be a political ghost
dance beside which that affair at Wound
ed Knee two years ago was simply an Or
binary ball room minuet. ..-.
The word has been passed along the
line that no ammunition is to be at present
used in the direction of Col. Freeman G.
iced. The latter is not in the best of
humor nowadays. Rightly or wrongly,
his following insists that their chief was
given the political double cross by the
present administration in the way in
which the mayor wiped out iced sa loon
policy as soon as he returned from his
recent eastern trip. iced is saying moth
ing these hot days, but his reputation is
not such as to warrant the assumption
that he will lay down in defeat. He will
either at the proper time occupy front
seat in the Lindley-Rader steam calliope
or else the scalps of some who are at
present his friends WILL before the &C
count has been closed, be found dangl-
ing pnantly from his belt. When
the treaty uf peace has been finally sign
ed, it will probably find the doughty
Fifth ward colonel the Republican candi-
date for supervisor in the district at pres
ent represented by Captain James Hay.
The friends of Councilman M. z. Snyder
are busily training that gentleman as the
Dem ocratic mayorality candidate. Coun-
Gilman George Pessell thinks that Snyder
would make an ideal candidate. The ap-
poilntment of James Methyin as oil in
spector the other day has rather turned
Snyder's stock down few points Meth
vim was Hervey Lindley's candidate
while Snyder la bored in and out of sea-
son for the appointment OF a man in the
fire department by the name of Gardner,
who is "a constituent OF mis- living in the
Second ward. The mayor is said to have
been friendly to Gardner until the Lind
lev inf pointed out to him the error
of his way. Then the mayor veered about
and now he and the councilman do not
give each other the glad hand as they
pass by.
Councilman George Pessel would like
t, be supervisor, and Counciimen
kingery, Asbman, Blanchard Stockwell
and Savage would like to succeed them
elves where t hey are at
,J,tn will 1,oy