The herald., 1897-06-20
EACH WANTS THE LARGEST
ALL THE BEST OFFICES CARE
FULLY PARCELED OUT
But None Can Agree That He Shall
Not Have the Best Of the
Deal

49,
mountain that brought forth tn
mouse.
Anyhow, 1t Is certainly . case o
"ridiculus mus"
Although the bubble, bubble, tot
and trouble" has been in progress TO-
a month or more, there Is so great ,
plethora Of brains and ambition in th
incoate mass of patriotism comprising
the still amorphous elements out o.
which the club may be formed.
No agreement has been reached as tt
who shall be the presiding officer when
II ever, the new organization takes def.
mite form. Bluff Henry Gage is more
than willing to occupy the chair. He is
anxious lest he shall not have the honor
It looks as If the jury would return
a verdict against the big criminal law.
yer this time. The only prominent Re-
publican who favors this Red Rover in
politics Is Col Otis. The editor of the
Times is for Harry with his usual alb.
sence of reserve. He likes Gage be-
cause Gage is very much anita. P. A.
But that rather disqualifles the can
didate in the opinion of most of those
who are interested in the new club.
Cages election would split the thing
wide open. With himself and Col. Otis
on one side and nearly all the rest on the
other. That is not hopeful for Gage.
Valentine, fresh from the Duckworth
legislature, is also after the chair. but he
will have to travel more than Ave blocks
over the PROSTATE form of Senator Bull
la, over that Of Ex-Governor Markham,
and over Haskell, too, the Pomona edi-
tor. The city fellows are not for the
man from the rural shades of the orange
groves, not little bit.
The gallant Captain Cressey Is SEEM
ingly marshaling his forces to make an
assault on the county clerks office in
the next election, and Charley Wilde
justifies his name in his scramble for
the recorders berth. They seem to have
formed a junction of their command to
take captive the new club for their
mutual benefit. The young men of the
party are said to be lining up in good
shape for these war horses, who have so
keen an eye out for the good of the party,
and incidentally for the increase of their
own revenues. Hough, with that bland
smile; Oliver, also an ex-schoolmaster,
duU = d4lh DOiillLS ueZ, Will leSSeI CIdl l,
in their broad wake, have concocted
a plan to offer the presidency to a new
man for the sake of harmony. 1t is not
apparent which of them is to figure in
this role, probably each one in his own
mind, and not in the mind of any of the
others. 1t may be they are looking to
play ball with the club. A gentleman Of
that ilk, with great record as political
hustler, from somewhere and bank ac-
count long enough to stand a supper for
the club at Jerry Illich's, is named as a
very dark horse. Is it Billy, Ball, the
cigar man?
But then there is Charley Fleming of
the sheriff's office, who thinks he would
make a splendid county clerk in his own
right, who is doing two mems work to
prevent Hough from getting near enough
to the presidents chair to sit and smile
from that coign of vantage. Charley says
the club is not worth a lump of soft
coal Of one ounce weight in Hades, l.
Hough is the head of it.
Then there is J. B. Scott, who Is chair
man of the committee on constitution.
He Is throwing side-lights on a sea,
in congress in his minds eye. The other
members smile and wink the other eye
and ask when? 1t has not been reflected
209S or at some less remote date. Scott
is playing in the role of the old fellow
who, in Esop's days, started for the mar
ket with himself his boy and donkey
He tried to please everybody, and all
three of them fell in the river, and like
Jim Grow never got across. Neither will
Scott. He will still remain with US, and
throw chiaro -oscuro side-lights on the
news in the Express. That is an easier
job, as measured by the amount of news
he has to illuminate.
All! but what of Col. De Leur, with
the accent on the lure? He has such a
winning way and his delicion French ac-
cent is so catchy? The colonel was one
of the great spellbinders in the McKin-
ley campaign. He Travelled with rum
ming mate in the person of some Cleve-
land Democrat, and there was no prom
Use of prosperity too large or with too
much red fire in it to phase the colonel.
In Antelope valley he made the farmers
mouths water with the great gobs of
good things he prophesied to beguile
them Of their votes. They We're too
leary of the lure, and We're not beguiled
to any great extent. They say De-
Leur's leading was like that of Moses.
1t took the people into wilderness and
seems sure to keep them there for
more than forty years on jack rabbits
and slugs before the promised land
heaves in sight. The colonel is an old
stager at this. He used to be Henry
Payne's side partner in Wisconsin, and
drew drafts before in politics which
were dishonored. Tie prosperity job
is too big for De Leur, and for his mas
ter, too.
Perhaps the gentleman from La Belle
France is not so much mistaken as
things might seem to indicate. His
name is posted at Washington, ana
some day soon he hopes to be a special
agent for Uncle Sam in some capacity,
with a good salary attached. Mark
Hanna, they say, is committed to see
that the wave of prosperity shall rise
high enough to moisten De Leur's lips
at least. This will justify to himself all
his promises of prosperity. And of such
is the kingdom of those who are in touch
with the sugar trust
Ling, another spellbinder, has con-
cluded he has no ambition to be
a congressman since Billy Dunn, the
city attorney, SHE'D his castor into that
ring The judge thinks the district
attorneys mantle will fit him to q nicely