The herald., 1896-02-10
The Colonel Will Do Some Poll
tics In the East
WILL INTERVIEW MCKINLEY
The Stalwarts Are Still Making Over.
lures
The Colonel Is Still Coy and the Program r1sy
Fall Through-..A Letter From Ohio Which
Requested Information

When Col. Harrison Gray Otis, the Nestor
Of Los Angeles journalism, left this city
Saturday evening for the east he carried in
his grip little list which bids fair to be-
come, ere the ides of next November, just
as historical as did the famous Murchison
letter. The colonel is on his way to WASH
ington, which is in the District of Columbia,
where he is to do. incidentally, missionary
work in the interest of the proposed free
harbor at San Pedro. and really some poll
tics which, if successful, will cause a rat
Ting of dry bones among the rank and file
of the grand old party, which will open old
sores and start new ones too numerous to
mention.
Col. Otis will, at Canton, Ohio, interview
Major William Mckinley. There are those
who insist that the strong link between
the colonel and the major arises from the
fact that the latter was the candidate of
his party for the district attorneyship of
of Ssarke county, Ohio, just after the war.
II was Col. Otis, who by casting his vote
for the prospective next president, helped
to swell Major McKinley's majority of
$500 by just SO much. Be that as it may,
the two leaders have been the warmest of
friends ever since and Col. Otis never loses
a subscriber but that no Immediately APP
prises Major Mckinley Of that fact, while
the major never confers with John Sher-
man unless the colonel has been in advance
consulted.
1t is said that Colonel Otis has, during
his present trip East, an advance copy OF
the names of all the delegates who are to
represent California at the Republican ma
tional convention to be held at st. Louis.
This list, Major Mckinley is to first wise,
and if agreeable, the leaders selected will
go East to assist in the ratification of the
Republican ticket. They will be needed
at st. Louis for no other purpose.
One thing only can preveLt the program
which has been prepared by the leaders of
the halfbreed, or solid portion of the party,
and that is the prospectively early arrival
in this section of General "Ret" Clarkson.
The latter is making the campaign for the
nomination Of United States Senator Will
lam Allison. If Allison should be elected,
,larkson would succeed him in
the senate. The leaders in the
North are not nearly all of
negative man, with but a single idea, that
of protection, which was in 1892 repu-
dated by the people. Their support is
divided between Thomas B. Reed and
Senator Allison, while General Clarkson
stands for Allison first and for the speaker,
czar of the house of representatives, Sec
ond.
The stalwart or "kid" faction in the
party, which consists mainly OF the
youngsters and programmes who are
domiciled at tine court house and the city
hall, have been working long and loudly
tooth and toe nail to mix up with the
colonel and his phalanx OF respectables,
but the former crafty leader will make no
positive terms, preferring to keep the boys
in the trenches guessing as to where he
may in the end be found, The plan to
send the colonel as a delegate at large to
| the national convention, and TO send Capt.
II. Y. Osborne and Hervey Lndiey
there as alternates has fallen through.
Both of the latter declined to screw their
party fealty to the notch necessary to make
the scheme success, and the colonel abb
solutely refused to copsi Ter the proposi-
ton at all. The idea was to sidetreck Otis,
so that he would be compelled to support
the city and county sia 9 in the coming
winter campaigns. 1t is strongly suspected
Barkis is willIn', and that the colonel may
be pretending TO coyness which in reality
he does not feel.
Capt. j. B. Neville, the elongated spon-
sor for southwestern annexation. was, be-
fore he came to Los Angeles, resident of
Columbus, Ohio. He i. in touch with some
of The big leaders Of the Buckeye stale,
one OF whom. a few days ago,
sent him a letter requesting him TO
forward to him soma reliable straw FER
tanning to tho local Republican situation.
neville is as YET SOtlietulJR Ol d tyIO Ill
real politics, and upon receipt of the letter
from his Ohio friend, he cast about to com.
ply with the request which had been made
of him He at first hunted up Colonel Otis,
who, after Neville's mission had been ex-
planned, informed the tall sycamore from
the Harper tract that he, Neville, need
look no farther in his quest for real infor-
nation, for he, Colonel Otis, was the only
simon pure Republican leader in This end
of the sta q, and as he felt friendly to
Major Mckinley. that would, at the proper
time, settle the whole controversy. OILS is
said to have cautioned Nivelle not. under
any circumstances, to have any dealings
with either Hervey Lindley or Governor
Lionel Sheldon, which strange as
it may appear. was the first
intimation Nevelle had that the two latter
leaders were in politics ut all.
Armed with this advice direct from the
thu one, Captain Neville hied himself to