The herald., 1896-04-30
THE THIRD IS REBELuOUS
But Lindley's Friends Swept 1t
Clean
OTIS OPPOSITION WAS NIL
The Redoubtable Hervey Carried Every.
thing
)TIS' OPPOSITION WAS NIL
He VIII BE One Of the Delegates to the st.
Louis Convention from the Sixth Dis
trict- Governor Sheldon's Fight
Hervey Lindley got the real turtle.
Harrison Gray Otis got the mock.
Rah for McKinley!"

Hervey Lindley will be selected as
one of the two delegates to the Repub-
lican national convention from this, the
Sixth congressional district at Sacra-
Mento next Tuesday, and unless COM
bination of which there is at the pres
ent time nothing known is formed. Lii
onel A. Sheldon of Pasadena will ac-
company him to st. Louis as a dele
gate at large. Lindley's battle was
practically won yesterday when his sup
porters carried every one. OF the nine
wards of the city, practically without a
struggle. There was but one opposi-
ton ticket in the field and that was in
the Third ward, where Captain John
Cross the park commissioner and finan-
cial hacker for his nephew, who is the
street sprin king contractor, sought to
dispute with the Republican powers
that be and who have been for 10 these
many years past for supremacy. His
experience cost Captain Cross about
500 for the printing Of tickets and hack
hire, and when the ballots had been
counted his ticket had just 212 votes to
422 for the other fellow.
cinct had turned him down in the Third
ward caucus held at Illinois hall on
Tuesday night, which fact did not. how
ever. deter his friends from throwing
him into the breach yesterday as an as
pirant for higher honors. The captain
would make a pretty good Los Angeles
representative at st. Louis himself, ana
thus it was that the foundation for an
opposition to Hervey I.indley in his own
ard was laid.
The only locality, by the way, where
this opposition found anything like a
responsive chord, was in the sixth
ward, where the American Protective
association IA stronger than anywhere
else in the city.
Here 1t was given out by the primary
managers that the ticket being voted
meant Can't. Cross as a district dele
gate and Gov. Sheldon as a delegate at
large, AS there was, however, no oppo-
sition to the caucus nominees at the
rolls, the ward caucus having on Mon
day night been entirely in the hands of
Lindley's friends, the sentiment yester-
day for Cross can be safely set down as
having been anything but genuine.
THE FIGHT IN THE THIRD
The fight IN the Third ward yesterday
waxed hot from the time that the polls
opened at noon until the counting began
u little after ) o'clock. Each side ac-
ouses the other with having nanipu-
lated voters in blocks of five, ten, fifteen
and twenty, and the result amply JUS
titles the assertions made all around,
for some of those who voted looked to
be anything but church-goer Col.
Harrison Gray Otis was something of
a conspicuous figure about the polls. He
assured those to whom he condescended
to bow that he had come out simply as
an onlooker, and not as participant.
Some of the Lindleyites insist, however,
that the colonel could tell heap about
the number Of men located in certain
grading camps inside the city limits,
were he at all inclined to whisper the
facts as they really exist into the ears
of the eagle bird. The voters from these
said
have cost some one four-bits each, are
stated to have been in reality manipu-
lated by the other fellows. In Third
ward Republican political parlance,
they double-shot the turn, playing 'em
both coming and going and winning
at each end.
One of the features of the fight against
Lindley was the following A. P. A. in
structions, which had been secretly pro-
mulSated to a favored few:
WHO SHALL RULE?
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Council No. IA.
127 North Main street.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, April %, 1896.
Dear Sir and Friend:
The committee on political action of
Council No. IA has prepared ticket to
be voted for at the primary election to
be held on Wednesday, April goth. AS
q friend of the order, you are earnestly
requested to attend this primary cleo
tion, and, by every legitimate effort,
aid in electing our ticket composed of
friends and true Americans and redeem
this ward from the clutches of a motor
ious political ring. Remember this fight
means the life or death Of our order in
tb, Third ward. 1t is fight for su-
Dremacy.
Shall the people, aided by our noble
order, rule? Or, shall the ring, aided by
our enemies, rule? Our duty is plain!
Go to this primary! Vote early; vote
straight!
The voting place will be 4141s South
Broadway, Wednesday, April 29th.
The polls will be opened at IL m. and
{ ose at p. m. Tickets may be OBJ
t.ined at the polls from the committee
on political action, who will have proper
credentials.
Committee on political action,
w. b. AKEY, President.
I. S. SMITH, Recording Secretary.
Los Angeles Council No. IA.
SEAL.
Los Angeles, Cal.
N. B.-Do not fail to solicit the aid Of
your friends.
In addition to the foregoing there was
a similar circular letter which read:
Friend:
You are requested to make a note of
every man that you can induce to come
to the primaries, and ascertain at what
time they can come, and carriages will
be on hand to bring them.
Remember also that every effort will
be made to deceive our people, and to
prevent anyone from voting a wrong
: ticket, our friends, Secretary c. T.
! Smith, Judge Baxter and w. Il. Meyers,
will be in charge of the tickets, and no
matter who may offer you ticket, go
compare it with the ticket this COM
mittee will have.
Come out at IL m. and stay and work
until and success is ours.
Remember. II m. sharp.
AND OTIS WASN'T IN 1T
= The names upon the regular, or Lind
riley, ticket, which was successful, con-
iflsisted of d. w. Field, w. c. Furrey, Fl.
\ Pierce, A. B. Clapp, George Lawrence,
sss.)r. w. G. Cochran, 3. L. Hess, c. L.
q logan, w. H. Cook, A. e. Bagley, j. L.
~ anderson, DIR. j. H. Trout, e. A.
tiseintzman, ]. w. Eddy. DR.. S. S. Sails
3 lry, j. M. Quinn. J. F. Francis, Thomas
iolmes, Col. H. Glaze, C. B. Malone, j.
w. Elliott, d. G. Stephens, G. D. Wright,
J. c. Blackington, S. M. Hit, John H.
Jones, u. M. Salter, Thomas Higgins,
X. M. Widney. G. L. Byam, A. B. Con-
RAD, Charles Elberson, W. G. Spence
faui n. Blades. ]. W. Long, w. M, Gar
land. Louis r. Vetter, r. B. Treat, C. E.
smith, w. b. Dunning, George Baldwin
Frank Dominguez, F. K. Ainsworth. A.
Z: Bilicke, L. McEvoy.
me ticket labeled anti-Lindley car
REQ the names of o. T. Johnson, J. r,
eSewperry, H. S. West, w. T. Myers, A.
af':~- CRAWFORD, G. T. Smith w T. RiIav