The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-25
LEADERS ARE HOME AGAIN
John Spreckels and Hervey
Lindley Had a Tiff
HOW ABOUT THAT CONTRACT?
W. W. foote Makes Very Significant
Wager
HOW ABOUT THAT CONTRACT?
Nominated, VIII Oct Most OF the E lee
toral Votes Of California

| That session of the Republican state
| central committee up at San Francisco
| the other day must have been / high
bridge. in the language of Statesman
William e. Cumming. Hervey LindicY.
Walter +. Parker Frank p. Flint and
Capt. H. q. Osborne, the Los Angeles
members of the committee, are home
| again.
When an attempt was made to call the
meeting to order on the first day it was
found that there were two aSpirants for
the office of temporary chairman. lea
of San Jose, who represented Sprecksls,
modestly announced that he would call
the meeting to order. Parker of Los
Angeles was the candidate OF the anti
Spreckels people. but his modcsty WAS
not to be compared with that OF Hea,
who stood up in front of him and pro-
ceeded to run the meeting with all his
san Jose diffldence.
Spreckels was in a hurry. to get under
cover and at once moved an executive
session.
The program was going against
Spreckels, who got very mad when he
found that f. NJ. Preston was to be
the chairman of the committee. Turn
ing to Lindley in open meeting he said
excitedly: You know your contract
with me and how far it goes. If you do
not keep it 1 will see that you are made
to regret it.
ley and some other members of the COM
mittee had questioned the advisabllity
of turning the machinery of the Repub-
lican party over to the Spreckels-Alli-
son wing. Ruef of San Francisco had
been suggested for the office of chair
man, but he protested that neither he
nor Preston, who represent party fac
tons. should be given the place. A man
outside of the factional lines should be
selected, and he suggested Major Frank
Mclaughlin of Orovlle as the man for
the position. This was at noon, and
Mclaughlin objected to being placed in
the fight without notice. His friends.
however, prevailed upon him to stand
and guaranteed him fifteen of the twen-
ty-one votes of the committee.
The next day Mclaughlin was elected
without opposition. Reuf on the first
day nominated Parker for temporary
chairman, but Rea of San Jose declared
that there was no second to the nominal
tons. He heard a second of Spreckers
nomination of himself for the place, and
took his seat after motion by Spreck-
els had been carried
Leon Schloss resigned his membership
in the committee the first rattle out
of the box.
The first campaign wager of the pres
ent season is announced and it halls
from San Francisco wv. w Foote
wagers $500 with Samuel Shortridge that
If Pattison is nominated for the presi-
dency by the Democratic party Patti
son will get more electoral votes from
the state Of California than the Repub-
lican candidate"
The San Francisco Chronicle does not
like young w. G. Arthur of Pasadena.
This is the way Mr.. De Young's paper
makes faces at the brainy young Re-
publican leader whose shingle is out
in the vicinity of the Hotel Green
The blunder which the Republican
party made when it took an unknown
lawyer from the privacy of village prac-
tice and made him chairman of the Cal
ifornia state convention begins to have
its natural outcome in poor politics One
OF the first results is the emaSculation
or the executive corpa of the state CEN
trail committee by turning down such
men as +. &. CornWall-who as the late
chairman, should have been retain
ed in membership-and Wendell Easton,
T. n. Lilienthal. Joseph Spear. jr., DR..
Meyer and W. w. Montague. In their
stead Mr. Nicholson, a Mr.. Shannon
ana others equally unknown have been
chosen; very worthy gentlemen. no
doubt, but without experience in party
management. They are unacquainted
with work which requires seasoned
skill and a thorough knowledge of pol
ltical conditions in the state. Doubt
less they have a capacity to learn what
IS needful,' but presidential year is
not a time for political apprentices to
try their hands at unfamiliar tasks TO
the possible jeopardy of the campaign.
But, after all. what is to be expected
when Justices court lawyer of Pasa-
dena has been the right of choice? a
man whose horizon is limited to the
rim of a saucer may gaze ahead as far
as ne. knows how hIlt his vision ic