The herald., 1897-05-29
Warning Republican Fac
tons in the Field
SOME OFFICIAL AsPIRANTs
4 "FEW" WHO ARE "MEN-
TONED" AS THE LEADERS
The Very Young Mems League and
Its 0bjects-Love's Labor
Lost


was very much in evidence in the cam
paign last fall. One Col Kinney, from
the wilds of Napa, or some other north
ern latitude, invaded the sunny south
as commander-in-chief of the army Of
the faithful and did doughty work for
the man with Napoleonic features. The
war over Col. Kinney ascended-pre-
sumably to lucrative office. His man
tie fell on the shoulders of Prof. Luther
Brown of the CONNIE rcial class in the
Los Angeles high school, The professor
is a very ambitious politician of the
kindergarten class. He gathered round
his standard all the following of the
cubs, and seemed little likely to vault
into political prominence. Now, when
it comes to this, the politician always
applies Abe legal maxim, that one would
rather face it per alum than face it
per sc. Therefore, those who would
rather. prove their patriotism by hold
ing office themselves than by seeing
another knock the persimmon, proceed
ed to form a. counter organization, and
now the two camps are more hostile
than a Bryan Free Silver club and a
Gold Democratic aggregation. There Is
plenty of fun ahead.
The new club Is to be known as the
Southern California Republican league.
1t Is sweeping the country before 1t,
and the old organization is getting in
war paint and sharpening the hatchet.
"A few of those who want to be pres
ident Of the new league are Senator R.
N. Bulla, the knight of the five-block
street car bill: H. L. Valentine, of re-
cent assembly fame; Hon. ]. w. Nc
Kinley, late judge of the superior court;
G. H. Stewart, who handled the single
gold cohorts last fall; Frank Miller, the
smiling, gay and debonair boniface of
the Glenwood at Riverside; Henry T.
Gage, the leading criminal lawyer of
the Los Angeles bar and owner of the
Red Rover gold mine; Walter Scott Mel
lick, new-fledged solon from the shady
dells Of Antelope valley, who thinks he
can capture the place as easy as box
of kilograms; and Col. H. H. Markham,
ex-governor, ex-congressman, but al
ways in the ring for q political plum.
The crop Of aspiring secretaries is just
as prolific. There are able Editor H. M.
Richardson of San Bernardino; able Ed
itor S. M. Haskell Of Pomona; James
Amiable Packard OF Pomona, who prob
ably does not graft political schemes or
his sour lemon stock: dark and gloomy
smiling George Hough, the young Los
Angeles lawyer; Charles Wesley Flem-
Ing Of the sheriff's office; and Fred
Wilde, the real estate man.
There are others too numerous to
mention for both these Offices
So strong Is the new organization that
already the members have many plans
cut and dried for offices at the next elec-
tion. Oblivious to the hole into which
General Alger has plunged, the party in
Southern California, and blind as bats
to the distress the administratio tion and
Gear Reed are sinking the whole coun-
try in, they are unable to read or un-
derstand the handwriting in letters Of
fire on the wall, which tells them they
are weighed in the balance Of popular
favor and found light as emptiness;
they really think their chances for Of
flee amount to something.
1t Is currently reported that one Of the
old stagers of the party at recent meet
ing moved to name the new organiza-
ton "The Very Young Mems League"
WIN Gal eAC dSSCAt OH tAc very. ne
said their schemes were so fresh and
veally that the calf could be heard to
bleat in each syllable cf the program.
So far as rumors have reached the
writer, young man to the manner born
in Los Angeles Is the choice for sheriff
when bluff John Burr gets done with
the cares Of Office, and with keeping Nc
Carthy, the tunneler, in bounds. For
congress, an attorney who has been JUS
tice of the peace here, and who aspired to
be mayor, lie the selection.
Billy Hammel has held the office OF
deputy sheriff under his brother in law,
Major George Gard, and r. A. Ling,
Esq, got such a drubbing when he
tried to be mayor under Democratic
regime that he left the party then and
there, and has since been a voluminous
if not convincing Republican voter IN
every campaign. He made lots of gold
bug talks last fall, and this Is probably
one reason why the Republican major
ity was so much reduced.
Is it necessary to say more about this
unfiedged combine to hold office :?
1t is too successful. 1t has raked in
too many smart men and too many
ambitious politicians. 1t will go to
pieces from its own weight, from internal
dissensions, heartburnings and jeal-
ousiec. 1t is smart. but not wise. Ling
for congress. Great Caesars ghostl