The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-16
The Contest Before the Demo-
cratic Committee
CHRIS HERE FOR POLITICS
lie Wants the Los Angeles County Dele.
CATION Very Badly


General Charles F. A. Last is candi-
date from this, the sixth congressional
district. as a delegate to the national
Democratic convention. His fight will
be one of the issues at the coming Demo-
cratic primaries. The Liquor Dealers
Protective association IN which the gen.
eral is high officer is taking great
deal of interest in the meeting of the
Democratic county central committee,
to be held this afternoon.
Christopher A. Buckley, his own de-
NAL to the contrary Notwithstanding, is
after all really here on a political mis-
sion. Buckley has vital interest in the
seating Of the delegation from San
Francisco at Sacramento on the 18th of
next month, for which purpose he wants
solid delegation from Los Angeles
county as the nucleus upon which to
make contest. The railroad is behind
Buckley. as are also the liquor people.
The meeting Of the Democratic coun-
ty committee this afternoon may
turn out to be a very lively affair in
deed. Chairman A. M. Stephens will
call the committee to order at o'clock
In its rooms over the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank, at the corner of Main and
Commercial streets. The Old Guard will
be out in force, pulling. hauling and
planning for ward, in preference to pre-
cinct primaries. Judge Stephens will
make an address In favor of the latter,
which will prove to all those present
who are really Democrats why ward
primaries are not Democratic, and why
In the present instance it would be sui
cidal for the party to deliver itself over
to Buckleyism. to the railroad company
and the State of California Protective as
ISOLATION. The Old Guard Is now talk
ing compromise, the olive branch being
an offering for ward primaries with pre-
cinct delegations, as was the system en-
MI fy. tHA III ~
mishing which enabled Hervey Lindley
and his friends to win hands down.
The same issue confronted the local
Democracy six years ago when James V.
Coleman was candidate for the guber-
material nomination. General A. w.
Barrett and others then lead the fight
in Los Angeles in young Mr.. Coleman's
interest, as against ex-Mayor Pond, who
was the choice for the nomination Of
the rank and file of his party in this
vicinity. The county convention that
year instructed by an overwhelming
vote in favor of precinct primaries as
against the ward or packing system.
The fight then was very bitter, the rail-
road and its allied interest being then as
now arrayed against the people. The
right triumphed and decency won after
a bitterly contested struggle. The Old
Guard surrendered then, but did not die.
LOCAL POLITICAL NOTES
L. ]. Rose is being entered by some Of
his friends as an available candidate to
beat James McLachlan. His boom is
in charge of Harry Patton, with Martin
Marsh as first lieutenant in the field.
George Patton can go as one of the
district delegates to the Democratic ma.
tional convention should he SO desire.
Senator Stephen M. White will be sent
on as one of the four delegates at large,
with the prospect that he will probably
be elected the chairman of the conven-
ton.
John D. Spreckels, accompanied by
Samuel M. Shortridge, his political
mentor, arrived in the city yesterday
morning, presumably en- route upon a
business trip to San Diego. They were
here all day, in close consultation for
several hours with Hervey Lindley and
William l.. Arthur. Spreckels and
Shortridge sought to convince Lindley
and Arthur that In justice to all con-
cerned and for the sake of the whole
Republican party Of the state the per-
sonnet of the Republican campaign
committee of twenty-one ought to be
somewhat changed. That committee
will be a surprise when 1t Is announced.
Eleven of it's members will, 1t Is said,
hail from the counties south of the Te-
hachepi, and of this number at least
three will come from Los Angeles coun-
ty. OF the balance, San Francisco will
obtain six men, to be divided half and
half between the forces of Spreckels
and M. H. de Young. The rest of the
state will get what is left.
Col. Harrison Gray Otis goes east to-
day to pave the way for the proper re-
ception of the California delegation, of
which the colonel is not a member, at
st. Louis next month. The delegates
will leave San Francisco June 18th, at
10 a. M, for st. Louis, which city will be
reached the following Monday at $50 a.
m. The route selected is over the Cen
trail Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande and
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
lines. A special train comprising three
sleepers, dining car and composite
car, with baggage compartment. bar
Der shop. reading room and smoking
room, will carry the delegation to and
from the convention city.
An invitation will be sent to the Ne
vada delegation to Join the train en-
route and proceed with it to st. Louis. If
the Nevadans conclude to accept the in
vitaton special car. reserved for them.
will be hitched to the train at Oakland
for their exclusive use and benefit. The
headquarters of the California delegation
will be In the Southern hotel. The spec
ial train isSintended to accommodate
the delegates. alternataS tbai. xuixyoc