The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-21
Captain AND COLONEL
A Coming Sensation in Repub-
lican Circles
SACRIFICES ALL AROUND
A Prospective Slate Of the Coming
Events
Col. Otis to 90 - One Of the Delegates to the
Next Republican National Convention
and Capt. Osborne as Alternate

The colonel and the captain have made
peace, and both will, after the treaty has
been formally ratitied by the other powers
Interested, hereafter meet upon a COM
mon ground, according to Dame Rumor,
who states the proposition about as
follows: The party of the first part
to the interesting agreement just con-
ciuded, Is Colonel Harrison Gray Otis and
the party of the second part is Captain
H. q. Osborne. The other powers inter-
ested, referred 10 above, are the Hon.
Hsrvsy Lindley, the Hon. Henry T.
Hazard and the hank and file OF ''de
push whose names woIld, if published,
reach from Dan to Beersheba and seven
times around.
No more sensational move has ever
been m ade in the Republican politics of
the state than the one which is at the
present time npon the eve of conslmma.
ton. should all of the articles in the con-
templated treaty be signed the effect will
be rafting of old bones and a new deal
all round. 1t will mean that W. G.
Patterson is not to be the Otisian leader
in the non-partisan contest of next year,
James McLachlan will not be the Repu-
blican congressional candidate after his
present term has expired. Mayor RAIDER
will succeed himself, that is, of course, if
the majority of the voters will permit
him to.
And in return for all of these conces-
sions?
The colonel is to be sent by the boys as
one of the delegates to the next Repub-
lican national convention, and later. if he
does not again kick over the party traces,
he may be- induced to accept the pro-
gramme nomination to congress.
The object of the new com bination is
OF course intended to be harmony, which
fact will explain why it is that the, cap
tain has SO far sacrificed himself that he
has agreed to become the tail to the in
tended kite, for the programme means
that the captain, who would him self
like to assist in nominating the next
Republican candidate for president, is
to be sent to the national convention to
act merely as an alternate.
To the strategy OF the Hon. Hervey
Lindley and the acumen of Walter +.
Parkertmust be given q the credit for the
forthcoming lying down together Of the
lam s. Both Of these leaders reason that
to make assurance any way sure in this
part of the state next year heroic polite
81 measures were needed. They have sup
piled the heroism and what was still
needed of this virtue they have induced
such other patriots; to put up, as are anS-
ious to nibble at the loaves and fishes.
It was Parker who discovered the colonel
and who stands ready to act as godfather
at the latter's second political christening.
The latter is one of the big leaders of the
local Republican organisation.
He has long been a staunch admirer of
the journalistic giant with the aristo-
cratic pedigree and the stern eye. Parker
some years ago for short time furnished
the Times eagle with wisdom and wrote
poetry for the colonel. That was before
either the colonel or the secretary we're
struggling days formed a sweet attach
ment for the colonel which he has cult
waited and nursed all of these years. His
self-im posed task has at times been a
very hard one to bear UP under. for the
private secretary is essentially pro-
grammer, while the colonel is not unless
he is himself the maker of the pro-
gramme. But all things come.Asto him
who waits, and now the two are finally
to reach common political ground at
last.
The discoverer of the captain in the
present instance has been Hervy Lind
ley. The former, when the new deal was
first outlined to him, is said to have
bucked and gnawed the bit as if playing
in the back yard was with him out of
the question. The captain with reason
would not swear allegiance to the colonel
ever, pointed to his own case as proof
what sacrifice real good Republican, the
captain was compelled to succumb. The
sight is said to have been one worthy of
great painter.
The new com bination is looked upon
by political experts as being nearly per-
feet. as the head is for sound money
while the other end believes in silver,
besides which the captain will 60 to the
national convention a believer in the
craftsmanship Of Benjamin Harrison,
while the colonel is for William McKin-
ley. Then again the captain is disciple
of the highest of high protection, while
the colonel is for happy medium, which
will land him in the right place at the
right time. 1t will be that sort of con-
ventioD, the local leaders argued. hence
the paradoxical union which has been
arranged.
Colonel Daniel M. Burns has been con-
suited and approves heartily the new or
der of things, while Colonel John d.
Spreckels does not object.