The herald., 1896-09-05
HE IS A VERY SMOOTH MAN
Sssatsr Perkins Friends Doing Good
sss Work for Him
Trades Unions Have Endorsed No Candidates
As Yet
s'cslsssl'' Tommy Smith In the Saddle to
Pash Things lu.the Eighth Ward.
Silver Republican Club Still
,s7 0rowlng-Notes

The Republican primary elections
throughout the county are the program
today. For q great many Of the follow
ers in that faith the day, until at least
.. M, will be an unusually busy one.
The delegates to the number of 519. who
are chosen as the result Of the primary,
will determine the makeup Of the Re-
publican county ticket which will be
placed IN the field next Thursday.
A more careful canvass Of the results
Of the caucuses held on Thursday even
ing goes to show that the Republican
machine was Unexpectedly smashed in
several places that were altogether un-
looked for and entirely unexpected.
It Is said that the machine carried
every caucus in the First and in the
Ninth wards. but in the Third, the
Eighth and the Seventh it got several
body blows. The Second had been anti
machine for some time past and again
went that way at the caucuses.
At the primaries today, however, an
effort will be made by the machine
leaders to recoup the loss Of prestige
they suffered by defeat at many Of the
caucuses. They will put tickets in the
field at the several precincts and try
to down the caucus ticket.
No matter how the result comes out.
the machine, so it is claimed. will be
able to control the county convention.
The head oiler is Hervey Lindley. He
will not, on the start, have enough dele
gates to control the county convention.
That is to say the Lindley delegates
who are distinctly such will not be in the
majority. Still Mr.. Lindley will control
the convention, and he will do 1t in this
way:
He will have a positive strength
which he will be able to use for any
purpose he sees fit. This being the case,
he will be able to make combinations
with certain candidates which will lie
in a sufficient number of delegates to
give him the control of the entire con-
vention.
There is opposing Mr.. Lindley an
element made up of strikers and heelers
who assert that he has failed to keep
his word with them in the matter OF
rewhrding for past political
services rendered. They are fighting Mr..
Lindley this time tooth and nail, and
as far as they have gone they have
apparently succeeded.
In addition to this, there are some SILK
stocking Republicans who are making
an anti-Lindley fight. They have al
WAYS opposed MIR. Lindley's management
of party affairs and probably always
will.
Still with all the opposition Mr.. Lind
ley Is fully able to cope. He has met IL
before and left the field victorious.
He is keen, shrewd and possessed OF
tIreless energy. AS a general and tac-
fician he has no equal in California,
and he will continue to handle the Re-
publican politics of this county as he
has in the past despite the frantic ef-
forts Of his enemies.
He will carry the primaries in enough
Of the precincts today to give his hold
upon the party machine a new lease
az life. and that Is all there is to 1t.
In so far as nominations are concerned,
the caucus fights have settled nothing.
The candidates for Republican nomina-
tions were abroad all day and good por-
tion of thte night marshaling their
forces and lining them up. In fact, so
far as local politics are, yesterday was
the hottest day that has yet peen eX-
perienced in the campaign. Even the
candidates for judicial honors were
about giving the glad hand to every one
and seeing to it that it was more partic-
ularly extended to the prospective dele
gate to the county convention.
No candidates have Withdrawn UP 10
date. and the only thing that is gener-
ination of Robert n. Bulla for state SEN
ator. t., ~,
city as to the three assembly districts
in the country by the rank ana nle OF
the Republicans, although they nave, OF
course, been cared for by Mr. Lindley.
In the city assembly districts Fred
Teale and Frank r. Willis are after the
seat of William Llewellyn. The f1glt
is a close one, and it is impossible to
predict the result.
J.. H. Crimminger and William Gar
land want to take the place that Mr..
Bulla has held. Garland is member
Of the board of education.
."Corny'' Pendleton wants to succeed
himself, but he Is being bitterly opposed.
There is quite an element in Pendleton
party who do not like the record he has
made during the two terms he has
served in the assembly. They want a
change. w. P. James, bright young
man OF unquestioned ability and char
acter, is being pushed by the better
element of the party for the nomina-
tiou. John T. Morton also has quite a
following
In the Third supervisoral district Mr.
Francisco has withdrawn from the ra &C.
The push" desires the nomination Of
Elder Pitman of the school board and
the elder is certainly being backed by
some powerful influences. Police Com
missioner Wirsching is also in it, and
will go into the convention, so it is said
with Boyle Heights. Deputy Sheriff
White only entered the field two days
ago, but he is looming up in the Seventh
ward in great shape.
The results Of the primaries today will
settle the matter as far as everything
Is concerned save the judicial nomina-
tions
Y INSTRUCT FOR PRRKIN,