The herald., 1896-06-03

with his fine height and notable should
ers, his curling mustachios, his golden
pince-neZ, his wide hat and wider af-
liability, doesn't look much the monster
of a disordered dream. But the men who
made him chairman of that committee
look on his proportions with pop-eyed
alarm. Hervey LindIey doesn't know
political annihilation, and as for John
ID. Spreckels, he is quaking like wine
jelly in the Palace Hotel cafe.
Mclaughlin is a man with a fine con-
tempt for the trammels and convention
alities of politics. He has broad view
and the faculty of getting there. For
instance, when the fight began they
We're not going to let Mclaughlin go
as delegate from Butte to the state
convention at Sacramento. But Nc
Laughlin went just the same, and he
had the Butte delegation in his pocket.
He elected himself member of the
state central committee.
Then, when Hervey Lindley and the
railroad thought it expedent to reduce
the swelling head of John D. Spreckels,
Lindley tock up Mclaughlin as his can
didate for chairman. Mclaughlin fixed
that matter good deal quicker and
harder than Lindley could, and Spreckels
was forced to get in and put I'm in NOM
ination for the place. And so they made
him. Then what?
Lindley made up a list of committees
for Mclaughlin to appoint McLaugh-
lin said um-um and ah-ah. and put that
list in his pocket Then Spreckels took
heart of hope 1T may grow into a boy
after all. he said, quoting the disap-
pointed small boy when told that the
new arrival in the family was a sister.
So he too prepared list of committees.
Mclaughlin took this list, said yes, yes,
and hum-um, and put it in his pocket.
Then he went up to Orovile
What is he going to do with those
lists" was asked of one of the majors
closest friends yesterday.
"Well,you see, came the musing reply,
"the majors got big dam up there
at Oroville, with the water flashing mer-
rliy over It, He's going to set those lists
aftoat and watch them go over the dam.
The major has fine eye for the spectac-
ular. He'll enjoy that sight Then you'll
see him come down about the end of
the week with new list of his own. I
think you'll find he's thrown over all
the old-time featherbeds who havn't
done anything for years but try to get
into office He knows they'd only ad-
wise him for their own good and not for
his own. | expect to see him surround
himself with his frends-mostly new
and disinterested men. Then Just
watch the bosses and old liners squirm. +"
Now, Hervey Lindley is nobody's
gold bricks nor buy green goods of well
dressed strangers He has made himself
boss of Los Angeles, and that is mighty
hard school. He has gone up against
John II. Gaffey and Tom Rowan and
Tom Savage in their own strongholds
and forced them to respect his ability as
a. combiner, a manipulation and an
achiever. His reputation is that of q
man who will stop at nothing to gain
his ends
But this stopping at nothing to gain
ends and these petty ward political
methods are just what do not appeal to
Major Frank Mclaughlin. He wants
cleaner methods and bigger results. SO
those who know both are getting ready
to smile when they see Frank McLaugh-
lin having fun with Hervey Lindley
Then there's Spreckels-all balled up
with the Catholic-A. p. A. controversy
That's another thing which doesn't ap-
peal to Mclaughlin. Men say he's a
presbyterian himself. His wife and
daughters are Catholics. He hates pet
" religio-political strifes and schisms
30 wait till he runs across some of
Spreckels' pet plans for catching A. P.
A. Votes-whee!
Then, again, how about the United
states senatorship? When c. p. Hunt
ington gets ready to make his fight
against Perkins he'll of course call on
Heryey Lindley and John D. Spreckels
20 90 some fighting for him. But there's 8
MAJOR Frank Mclaughlin right in the
road-one of Perkins stanchest friends