The herald., 1896-02-16
A GRAND STRUGGLE COMING
Republican Politics Are Getting
Decidedly Mixed Up
A FEW COMPLICATIONS
COMPLICATIONS
The Spreckels and Anti.SpreckeIs Fight
ing For Supremacy
The Inside Causes That Lead Up to the "Tour
Of Triumph" Col. Harrison Gray
Otis Is Making

iIOS AuSeieS County tnht VIII IoSoihOAo uo
struggle of a gang of street urchins for
5-cent-piece that has been cast into the air
for the liveliest boy to capture.
1t is now only a question OF time when
the leaders OF the party in this county will
be compelled to line up on one side or the
other in what is going to be one of the
prettiest political battles that has ever
been waged in the state.
Claus Spreckeis unquestionably has an
ambition to be United States senator from
California. His sons desire to see him
there, and the Spreckels fortune, which is
way up above the ten million mark, will
not deter his going.
VERY BITTER FILL.
To c. p. Huntington and the railroad
faction of the party the idea of Claus
Spreckels being sent to the United States
senate is most disagreeabe. and they do
not propose to permit it if they can place
a few piles and other impediments in his
pathway in political sense. The Hunt
ingtcn railroad combination are not by
any means enamored Of Senator Perkins,
but they prefer to see him returned to the
senate rather than to see the sugar king
firmly planted in one of those seats for six
years.
Next to San Francisco Los Angeles is the
most important county in the st ate in the
councils of the Republican party. There
are in this county some of the very slickest
manipulators i'll the state, and they always
loom up at Republican conventions in San
Francisco.
Therefore, the Spreckels faction of the
party have concluded that they will just
drop in and take Los Angeles county and
the Republican local machine and control
it in SO far as it may affect or have a
bearing on the senatorial question.
This being the case, men who manipulate
the G. o. p. in this section in the interest of
the railroad have concluded that the
Spreckels faction shall not tignre down in
this neck of the woods at all.
SOON HAVE 10 GIVE UP
Very presently the leaders and sub-lead-
ers throughout the county will have to line
UP on one side or the other-either be with
Spreckels or be with Dan Burns, the rail-
road company and the push.
The Spreckels interests in Los Angeles
are understood to be in the hands of Col.
Walter 5. Moore, who will be the directing
mind. The colonel is certainly a hard
worker when it comes down to politics,
and he can do them very nicely. Asso-
ciated with Colonel Moore will be some
prominent anti-Lindleyites of the party
who have not yet shown their hands.
Hervey Lindley and his factotums in the
party are favorable to the return of Per-
kins to the United States senate, and are
therefore essentially anti-Spreckels. That
eminent leader and handler of men, Mai.
George Z. Gard, has returned to Los Ange-
les and embarked in business and also in
politics. The major will undoubtedly rep
resent the railroad company and do poll
tics for them, as we'll as any other business
they may desire transacted down this way
in his line.
GARD FOE CHIEF
There has been some talk of removing
the big chief of police and giving him a
vacation for time. If this is done the
place would be given to Major Gard and
then he could do politics in shape. But it
is difficult matter to secure the removal
of Glass, owing to the fact that the mo-
Inent they are needed there are two Demo-
cratic votes in the council that are at the
command of the Glass combination to hold
him in his position as chief of police. There
is one Republican councilman who is
against Glass, and with the four Demo-
cratic votes the big chief could be retired.
But there are two Democratic councilmen
who are in the push, and this is the clog
that prevents change of men and meth
DDS in the police department.
The police department in Republican
politics hill be with the Lindley-Rader fac
ton insofar as they can be handled under
the control that exists at present.
FIGHT FOR SENATOR
There is ne point that is just now exer-
cising the Republican machine, and that is
as to who shall succeed Senator John r.
Mathews. The possibility of Democrat
again carrying the district is looked upon
as remote, and the gang think that the Re-
publican nomination will be equi, alent to
an election. This may be mistaken idea
they have about the senatorial district he.
ing a snap for the Republican nominee.
1nasmuch as the senator to he elected
will have vote for senator in 1897, and
also one in 1899, it is looked upon as q
very desirable plum.
Assemblyman Robert N. Bulla wants the
nomination. Mr.. Bulla is regarded as an
honest man, and he has served two terms
in the assembly, where he has made re-
cord as a rather weak sister. He is not q
boodler, nor can any jobs be traced to him.
lie has not, however, made a record oppos-
ing the schemes and jobs of the handlers
from this and other counties who have
operated most successfully at Sacramento
during the sessions OF the legislature of
1898 and 1895.
Col. Freeman G. Teed would like the
senatorial nomination, but the colonel has
pledged himself that as long as Mr.. Bulla
is in the fight he is not.
ONLY JOKE
The candidacy OF Assemblyman G. w.
Pendleton for the position is joke. He
Is like the man that fell out of the balloon.
He is simply not In it.
But there ia a man whose friends are
pushing him for the Republican nomina.
tion whom Mr.. Bulla has good reason to
fear. That man is Judge d. p. Hatch.
Bulla is a Perkins man. Judge Hatch
would stand as the candidate of his party
without any pledge as to whom he is for
for United States senator, and therefore
the Spreckels people would be with him,
He has strong personal following in the
G. o. F. ranks and will give Bulla a hard
rush.
The question as to who the favorite cam
didate of the Republican party of South
ern California for the presidency is re-
mains in doubt.
The "Tour of Triumph of Col. Harri
son Gray Otis throughout the east at this
iuncture has considerable bearing on the
solution. The colonel's ''Tour of Triumph
came about in this way.
THE TOUR OF TRIUMPH
His bosom friend and intimate, Captain
H. z. Osborne had a trip East short time
ago, as one of the five representatives of
California, to try and persuade the Re-
publican national committee to hold their
convention in San Francisco. Captain Os-
borne's position gave him prestige and he
was placed in close touch with all the na-
tional leaders. He hob-nobbed with them,
and as he is man with pleasant address
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