The San Francisco call., 1898-08-27
ALL DECENT FORCES COMBINE
WILL PRESENT AN INTANGIBLE
 COUNTY TICKET.
An Amalgamation Effected Which May Result in the Complete Humiliation of the
 Ringsters.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SAN JOSE, Aug. 26.-There will be q hot politicalF battle in Santa Clara County this fall, and a complete annihilation of the Req forces is pre- dicted. The participants will be the gang" on one side and the opposing side will consist of the amalgamated forces of the Democrats, Silver Repub- licans, Populists and Good Government League.
 Preliminary steps looking to union of the latter four parties have already been taken, and but few minor de- tails remain to be arranged. This is the expressed wish of majority of the voters of the county, and such tlcKet seems certain of success.
 Already the ReaiteS see In this the1r Waterloo and they are trying to smooth things over. The boss promises have been given and broken too often, and there is no chance of the chasm be- tween good government and corrupt politics being bridged.
 The Democrats have suffered through Rea's interference in their party. Their leaders and the boss are at logger heads, and at the meeting of their County Committee yesterday he came In for a good roasting. The other clements and better class of voters will have nothing to do with the gang, and solid ranks of voters are arTayed against the Republican county tlcket named by Rea.s convention.
 While the Republicans opposed to Req will work hard for the State ticket from Gage down, they are determined that Req shall no longer run county affairs.
 The Democratic county convention is called for Friday, September ?. The Populists meet-on the same date. Both these parties will appoint conference committees and confer with similar committees from the Silver Republicans and Good Government League about the naming of an amalgamated ticket The division of the offices has been agreed upon, and there will be but two or three skirmishes for places on the ticket.
 The Populists will insist upon F. B. Brown for District Attorney, J. l.. Rid- ale for Justice of the Peace and the naming of two Assemblymen from this The Silver Republicans want the Senatorial nominee in the Thirtieth District, and Dr. Fowler of Santa Clara is mentioned for the place.
 A. s. Kittredge for Superior Judge, E. w. Conant Treasurer and J. H. Lyndon for Sheriff have been allotted the Good Government League as their share of the county ticket, as 1t IS pre- stunned this organization will support | the regular Republican legislative ticket.
 This leaves the Democrats one As semblyman and the following offices, which will probably be filled as fol- lows: County Assessor, l.. A. Spitzer; Tax Collector, w A. January; County Clerk H. A. Pfster; Coroner, Dr. F. McMahon; Surveyor, r. c. Sainsevain; Recorder, Al You've; Auditor, B. c. Farley; Superintendent of Schools, l.. J. Chipman.
 The other township offices and Su- pervisors have not been agreed upon, but w. s. Whitehurst will most likely be nominated for Supervisor in the Fourth District and M. Casey or Gill; roy in the First District.
 About the only hitches in agreeing upon this ticket will be over the offices of Sheriff and Superior Judge The Judge and George Bollinger for Sheriff. Bollinger is Rea's man and the gang propose to knife" Langford, the Re publican nominee. for him. The Popu- lists, Good Government people and Sill yer Republicans refuse to accept Schel- Ter and Bollinger and will insist upon Lyndon for Sheriff and Kittredge for Judge. These same parties will also insist upon the Democrats naming Pfster for County Clerk. Spitzer for Assessor and January Tor IdA Collector. This last trio are all Demo- cratic incumbents and have proved efficient officials. The Democrats will put up Chipman (anti-gang Repubn- can) for Superintendent of Schools. This ticket if nominated will be the strongest ever placed before the vot- CTS of Santa Clara County, and It's elec- tion Is certain. Req Republicans are even conceding this last fact.
 The total vote of Santa Clara County Is between 12, 900 and 13,000 The Demo crats and Republicans are about equal ly divided and have a party strength of about 4500 each. The other 400O voters are divided among the Popu1- lists. Good Government League, Sil- yer Republicans, Prohlbltionists and Independents The Populists claim a strength of 2ooo, Good Government League 1900 and Silver Republicans 700 This makes a total of 4300 votes. This number, with two-thirds of the Democratic -30oo-will be more Iar. of tbe forceS OppoSing Req are