The San Francisco call., 1898-05-08
GAGE NOW OUT FOR
 GOVERNOR Col. Otis Too Great a Load for Him to
 Carry, Bids the Warrior Adieu and Wishes BuIIa 
 Good Luck. NUeorge Arnold Wants Voters to Forget His Friendship
 for the s. p. RELIES OH RAILROAD SUPPORT. Gossip That Will Prove Interesting to Those Concerned in the
 State Political Pie.
RELIES OH RAILROAD SUPPORT.

Politics brings strange bedfellows. Be cause of this it now appears that the southern portion of the State will be asked to support a Los Angeles Republi- can in the race for the nomination for Governor. The man is Harry Gage.
 Gage would like to succeed Stephen M. White as United States Senator, and dur ing the past two months has devoted his best endeavors toward achieving that end. Being a man of rare good sense and judg- ment. be has at last come to a realization of the fact that he is doubly unfortunate in having so strong a rival as R. \. BulIa and so unpopular a friend and supporter as Harrison Gray Otis, the warrior jour- naIist who directs the destinies of the Los Angeles Times. Finding himself be- tween the devil and the deep sea, as it were, Gage is said to have done the only thing left for him to do-bidden a regret ful adieu 10 his hopes for a SenatOria; toga and severed diplomatic relations with the patriotic but unpopular Otis.
 As is well known. Otis is blasting the gubernatoriaI aspirations of Attorney General Fitzgerald by supporting them. so what could be more natural than for Gage to take advantage of the situation to make use of his own personal popular itv by presenting himself as candidate for the place at the head Of the icKet. Better. he thinks, to die by the ballots  . bO1led over by the TeCOil of his own ar tilIery-assuming. for the sake of the metaphor. that Otis is any kind of a gun, big or little
 if it be true that Gage has. by a single act parted company with his Senatorlal aspirations and his uninnuenuaI friend the fact adds a new complication to the situation south or the Tehachapl hne- With Gage out of the running the chances of U. :. Grant Jr. are very materially increased, and it may be claImed that those of Bulla are leSSened- Bulld strength is conceded even by his oppo- -nents in his own party. His record as public servant is uuassailable, and so far as known the only charge his enemies have alleged against him is that he was that he was born in the State of Indiana, and that he traces his lineage through good American ancestors back to Revolu-
 With Grant the case is different. No one has had the temerity to question his nativity. but there are many who have not hesitated to say that in aspiring to Senatorial honors he hopes. for success by trading on the name of his IluStrous father While his detractorS have been enjoying a little cheap amusement at his expense the young man has been saying nothing though it now develops that he has sawed considerable political wood. He has enlisted the sympathy and sup port of his mother, Mrs. Julia D. Grant, and she in turn has solicited the moral as well as the active support of Qld lam ily friends. who are powerful in the coun- ciis of the party, in furthering the am bition of her son. It is said that Sena- tors Lodge, Fairbanks and Elkins, Chaun- cey Depew and others have pledged them selves to support young Grants cause and that they have secured the services of R. c. Kerans. an astute politician of St Louis as director in chief of their protege's campaign. Milton J. Green of Oakland occupies the position of local manager. He has been touring the State with his principal for several weeks past.
 The name of eX-Governor Markham has been mentioned as Q senatorial possibility, but it is not likely that his magnetic hand and hypnotic tongue" will ever again figure in 9 political campaign in this State It is related of Markham that he possesses the faculty of making the person with whom he may happen to be conversing believe that he places implicit trust in no one but Markham, the person with whom he is talking and God. The order in which the members of the trinity are named cannot be otherwise than flat tering to the listener.
 A majority of the voters who helped to elect George L. Arnold of Los Angeles to a position on the Board of Equalization from the Fourth District had hoped that he would be content with the unenviable record he has made and that at the ex- piration of his term of office he would be willing to retire to the comparative se- clusion of private life for all time to