The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-15
MAYOR RAIDER DUE TODAY
The Mayor Should Arrive Here
This Afternoon
WILL HAVE PLENTY TO DO
Several Knives Have Sought to Cut
His Honor
Some OF the Schemes Which Have Been
Flooded to do the nayor During
His Absence

When Mayor Frank RAIDER reaches home
today, as he is due by the Santa Fe
flyer this afternoon, he will find that sew
eral changes upon the municipal and local
chess board of interest to himself have
occurred while he was himself engaged in
chasing strange gods in the effete east.
The mayors political opponents have not
been idle during his absence, and the
friends andsupporters of both Councilmen
reeman G. iced and Frank L. Munson
have been making hay.
While the mayor escaped action upon
the Horseshoe saloon license, it is extreme
ly problemetical that he did not lose more
than he presumably gained, in the fact
that iced las during the past three weeks
stuck very relgiously to his determination
expressed before RAIDER left, not to attend
to any of the cty's executive affairs whiie
acting mayor, which would compe him to
in any manner show his hand. The presl-
dent of the council has 50 very relglously
l ived up to this rule that nearly all OF 'ne
enemies of the administration have taken
the cue and have censured the mayor for
delibera ely neglecting the citys affairs
while seeking new fields to conquer
Il may of course have been Only an acct
dent. but RAIDER had not been gone more
than two days, before Munson mayoraity
stock had gone up several points and the
push about the city hall all give it as their
opinion that were the Republican prim-
aries held tomorrow, the councilman from
the third ward would knock the mayoralty
persimmon with ease. Another straw
showing which way the wind has been
blowing has been the attempts made and
still hanging fire, to drop Oh Inspector
James Methvin out of a job. Methvin, S
was Lindley- RAIDER appointment and it
is his strong combination which the oppo-
nents of the administration are trying so
hard to knock.
The sInoothest jolly is what the push
call it, which has been and still is being
worked to sidetrack RAIDER, is the SEEM
! ingly tempting offer of a congressional
nomination next year, providing that the
mayor will permit himself to be showed
aside in the race for the mayoraty. En-
ecutive- Secretary Walter f. Parker laughs
when he is approached upon this phase OF
| the subject Parker has kept himself fully
posted durin the absence of his chief in
the matter of the various moves which
| have been afoot TO politically undo the
| mayor, and through his shrewdness he has
managed to forestall and block several OF
the jobs, schemes and combinations which
were set afloat.
The ques ion of Park Superintendent
| Meserves resignation or removal Will be
| one of the first of the many serious politi.
cal problems which will confront the mayor
| When the full history of the influences al
work in this particular matter has been
fully told him by Secretary Parker, the
mayor is apt to open his eyes with aston
ishment. 1t will, in fact, require all o.
Parker's eloquence and ability to make thu
mayor believe all of the facts in the case a
thel really exist