The herald., 1896-05-05

been thrown into the breach by Walter
+. Parker and others Of his admiring
constituency who are residents of Los
Angeles, as a candidate for chairman
Of fomorrow's convention. Not the Sixth
district affair, mind you, but the big
Seance which will be due one hour
later, and what is more surprising, be-
cause 1t is more to the point, Arthur has
the honor almost between his teeth.
He is in fact, so close to the prize that
those programing the fight for Frank
Coombs the Napa statesman, who was
for a. short time, under b. Harrison,
minister to Japan, have already made
overtures to the Los Angeles delega-
tion. Offering, II Arthur is pulled out of
the main contest, to make him the vice.
chairman of the convention. with the
privilege of presiding over it's delibera-
tions whenever Coombs shall have oc-
casion to touch off the water pitcher,
which would, it is expected, be early
and often, as the convention is certain
to be very warm affair.
This offer at compromise has been
spurned with scorn, at least so Hervey
Lindley informs me, and he certainly
ought to be in a position to know.
OTIS DIDN'T COME.
The Los Angeles delegation, 63 votes
strong, caucused in Lindley's rooms at
the Golden Eagle hotel at 23O this after
non. An organization was effected with
HI. q. Osborne as permanent chairman
of the delegation.
Needless to say Col. H. G. Otis was
not represented at the meeting, either in
person or by proxy. The caucus in
dorsed Lionel A. Sheldon as the dele
gate at large. Hervey Lindley as one of
the delegates from the Sixth congress
ional district a. =. Flint, who is booked
to succeed George Denis as United
States district attorney for Southern
California, if the fates are not unkind,
and William Wirsham of Los Angeles.
as district alternates to the national
convention.
A steering committee, consisting of
II. H. Osborne as chairman, eX offcio
Walter Parker and p A. Flint. was
elected to make combinations with other
delegations which might prove to the
greatest benefit to the country.
DISTRICT AFFAIRS.
The Sixth district congressional
convention meets in the supreme court
room at 10 o'clock in the morning, at
which time james McLachlan will be
named as congressman by acclamation
h the caucus. and the nominations of
Lindey, Flint and Wirsham will be
ratified Thomas Field of Monterey
will then also be elected as the second
district delegate to the st. Louis con-
vention, and one district presidential
elector will be named. The recipient
Of this latter honor has not yet been
selected. the Los Angeles delegation
being too much occupied with McLach-
lan's, Lindley's, Sheldon's and Billy Ar
thurs fight to figure upon any bit of
political bric-a -brac like a presidential
elector
Ventura county, where James Daily, |
ex-city attorney of Los Angeles, now q |!
farmer on the Ojai and code commits |
sioner, melted the party clans into re- !
bellion, will promptly swing into line |
against the Pasadena congressman.
nj
Daly's opposition to McLachlan lies in |
the latter's recent congressional speech, |
wherein he opposed the granting of |
the public money for sectarian Indian
schools.
Judge DAILY, when seen about the mat
ter today, said:
Our country will tomorrow go for
McLachlan, of course, There are not
enough of us to put up real pretty fight.
! opposed the thing only because the
nomination is a railroad move and 1
wanted to beat it,
The idea of Daily, who fixed up the as
sembly district convention trick in the
interest of Dan Burns and the railroad
making an, anti-railroad fight. was so
funny that Freeman G.. Teed slipped
away from game of hearts so that he
could hear the story repeated twice over.
The leaders in the Los Angeles delega-
tion have promised the San Diego and
Riverside people to work for the cleo
ton of U. S. Grant as delegate-at-la large.
providing the folks in the seventh con-
gressional district would push along III
the same direction the candidacy of
Lionel A. Sheldon. A deal has been
partially arranged along these lines.
Richard Gird, who made his sugar at
Chino, is to be chosen by the conven-
tion as presidential elector- at-large. |
ARTHUR STILL LEADS.
The permanent craftsmanship Of the
convention is. at 10:30 tonight, a very
mixed affair, with w. z. Arthur really |
in the lead for the honor as a compro-
mise candidate agreeable to all factions
Jacob Neff of Placervlle quit the field |
early in the day, and Frank Short of
Fresno, who succeeded to Neff's chances,
is now out of the running
George Knight of San Francisco, who
was chairman of the convention which
two years ago named NJ. NJ. Estee for
governor. has this year declined to pre-
side. He wants to go to St. Louis as
delegate-at large
Frank Coombs of Napa is Arthur's |
only real opponent, and, unless all idi- ,
cations are at fault he will by daylight
have been badly ditched.
A temporary chairman of the conven- .
tion will be either Charles T. Jones of
sacramento or E. NJ Preston of San
Francisco.
A FIGHT PROMISED.
A story is current tonight that George
A. Knight will tomorrow upon the floor
Of the convention. denounce John ..
Spreckels. Persons who claim to be on .
the inside assert that Knight will make
the oratorical effort of his life and that +;
ne VIII make every word against Spreck- !
eis cut like razor, If Knight does take !
the floor for any such purposes all the
indications are that a small-sized liot
will be precipitated
SPRECKELS AWFITL THREAT
A story freely circulated today at the
Golden Eagle hotel is to the effect that 8
John ID. SpreckelS had made a bitter
threat last night. II is asserted that ,
" hile he was in the headquarters of the /
Mckinley league last night Spreckels +
declared that III the event of the Califor- +
MIA delegation being sent to ST Louis
pledged to Mckinley he would withdraw ,
from the party taking his followers with
nlm and that he would also refuse to !
give the party any financial aid in the ,
future.
Col. E. NJ. Preston of San Francisco.
who is the first lieutenant of Spreckels ,
IN political matters. said to q reporter :
this afternoon that there was no truth
n the story that Spreckels had said any ,
thing of the kind.
The story probably started from a
made by Mr.. Spreckels." contin-
led Col. Preston, Ito the effect that if
ne should be turned down to make room
'or men like Mahoney, it was about time
hat he (Spreckels) got out of politics" ,
Notwithstanding the denials, however,