The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-15
Los Angeles Programmes Hold
aPost.M0rtem
c. A. BUCKLEY IS IN TOWN
The Blind Ex.Leader Says He 10 on q
Social Visit
Angeles 10 . Wonder-The Old Guard
Again In the Saddle

cent Republican state convention held
joyous pOstmortem last evening, the
scene of the wake being the Jones block
on Upper Spring street. John c. Cline
was outer guard, DR.. Granville Mac
Gowan occupying the most prominent
place upon the bleachers.
The feast of reason was sent upon its
way rejoicing by the introduction of Rev.
j. S. Pitman. who was set down to nomi-
tate as the chairman of the evening.
City Attorney w. E. Arthur of Pasa-
dena with the identical speech which
made Arthur chairman of the big Re-
publican gathering at Sacramento.
Captain H. Y. Osborne, who was chair
man of the Los Angeles county delega-
ton at the capital city, introduced Pit
man. and the latter rather fell down
upon the crowd. He failed to set adrift
his Sacramento speech, delivering, how
ever, in lieu thereof one which was in q
great many respects much better.
Arthur, in assuming the gavel. set the
ball a-rolling as per program-those
Pasadena youngsters are always equal
to the OCCASION when it comes to pro-
gramming-by throwing large. juicy YER
bal bouquets in the direction of Hervey
Lindley. who was present, and every
succeeding speaker taking the cue fol-
lowed the line of policy thus mapped
out, until the statesman whose name
Is red rag to the bull in the stone
castle. presided over by the eagle on
the corneI~of First street and Broad
way turned the colors of a Redondo car
nation clear up to his blond wavelets of
hair which are located at the topmost
base of his Third ward head.
The name of William Mckinley was
mentioned some twenty times during the
festivities. but the applause never rose
half way to the ceiling when the apos-
tie OF protection who halls from Canton.
Ohio. was referred to. When Hervey
Lindley, however. rose to his feet in re-
Spouse to call from Chairman Arthur
the handclapping and braves must have
made the only real Mckinley colonel
two blocks off. fall off his soft-cushioned
chair with envious surprise. The meat
in Lindley's address was that the only
Simon-pure people. so far as the Repub-
lican party of the state IS concerned.
are the youngsters who program in the
solid south. The speaker maintained
that the united front presented at Sac
ramento ten days ago has for the time
being, at least. transferred the state
Republican shrine to the section south
Of the Tehachepis, and that hereafter
Los Angeles, and not San Francisco,
would be the Republican Mecca in Cali
fornia. Lindley informed his hearers
that the successes Of the Sacramento
campaign could easily be repeated at
every Republican state convention if the
dSlcSdtlOT lTOIl LOS Angeles county
would only act as unit, thus making
Itself the nucleus around which the DEL
egations from the other counties in both
the Sixth and Seventh congressional
districts could form hollow square for
action in battle. Through this method.
Lindley maintained. the south could go
into any Republican state convention
with 20a votes to swing as one block.
Others who spoke were John c.
Lynch. the sage of Cucamonga. who was
at Sacramento nominated as the Repub-
ltcan candidate for lieutenant governor
Judge w. A. Cheney. Frank p Flint
Mayor Cox and Senator Simpson Of Pas
adena Walter Trask and Colonel Glaze
Trask is native of Maine, and when
he referred to Thomas B. Reed, the raf-
tiers shook
One or two of the speakers started
to pluck the feathers from the tail of
the Mckinley eagle which perches high
where the electric cars turn on First
street and Broadway, when Chairman
Arthur came to the rescue and de-
plored the idea of wringing the neck of
any bird which the hunters had already
shot full of holes.
So much of the program which In
cluded the flow of soul consisted of
punch, lemonade, sandwiches and Ha-
vana cigars. There was also some in
strumental music by a couple of Span
ish troubadours who had been discov-
cred by John c. Cline and Walter F.
Parker. but they did not make a speech
The flower throwing ended about mid
night. and the Times did not issue a
special number commemorative of the
occasion. Col. Otis had not been in
vited to the feast, hence the absence OF
any large gobs of enthusiastic praise
from the columns of the leading Re-
publican morning paper in Southern
California in its issue of this morning.