The herald., 1898-05-02
POLITICAL NOTES
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Observation-Disclosures
James c. Rives of Downey is sending out
typewriter letters soliciting assistance to
secure for him the Republican nomination
for district attorney. He says: IT think
the south end Of the county is entitled to
a place on our county ticket, and shall
use every legitimate means available to
secure the nomination. Any assistance
rendered will be thankfully received"
Poor Jim! This letter business will never
do. His rival for the same honors, the as
tute r. A. Ling of the First ward will
laugh hearty one when he hears of this,
your latest political move. Ling writes no
letters. He meets a friend, or an enemy,
grasps him by the hand, tells him all kinds
Of yarns. asks him about his family for
two generations back, and makes him be-
lieve that he is the only man lacking in the
whole county to make his nomination sure
But, then, 1t matters little what mode OF
canvass or wire-pulling our Republican
friends adopt. A union silver ticket is a
foregone conclusion, and this is as good as
an election.
The San Francisco Argonaut has this to
say with reference to the nominees to the
supreme court bench:
I'm the struggle FOR the seats upon the
supreme bench that will become vacant
next year, 1t begins to look as IL the Judges
Of all the superior courts In the state were
aspirants for promotion. On the Repub-
lican side, Mcfarland will have the Sac
ramento delegation behind him, and is very
likely to secure a denomination. His rum
ming mate is likely to be Judge w. H. Clark
Of Los Angeles. Judge Clark has been
upon the superior bench of Los Angeles
county for ten years, though he is still
young man, and was the choice of that
county for the supreme bench four years
ago. He is likely to have a solid backing
of all the delegations from Southern Cali
fornia, though he has a formidable op-
ponent in Judge B. T. Williams Of Ventura
county. The other candidates on the Re-
publican side include Judge Angelotti of
Marin county, Judge Buckles Of Solano,
Judge Green of Alameda, Judge Sweeney
Of Shasta and Justice Van Fleet. On the
Democratic side are Judge W. M. Conley of
MADEIRA, Judge Law of MERGED. Judge
Farnsworth OF Visalia and Judge Grant of
Yolo."
To the above list should be added the
names Of Judges Hutton and Van Dyke OF
this city, who are prominently mentioned
in connection with the nomination on the
union silver ticket.
The Times Is furnishing IT'S readers re-
freshing reading and valuable information
on the rottenness Of the Republican man.
agement Of city and county affairs. and es-
pecially concerning the hungry Republican
bread-and-butter brigades, as 1t calls them,
that infest the court house and city hail.
Here is what the Times has to say:
within the past three weeks an attempt
has been made to form secret organiza-
ton on the lines of the A. p. A., under the
name OF the American league, and to make
1t factor In local politics. The movement
originated at the court house, and the
prime movers were a score of office hold
ers who hoped to make the organization
an aid to them in their efforts to hold on to
their Jobs for another term. The
whole business is a scheme, pure and SIM
pie, to get at the public crib. The members
of the so-called league have cautiously
imagined that their proceedings were
shrouded In secrecy and that their influ-
ence in county politics would be a potent
one. Nothing could be more absurd or
more puerile The character Of the
league was sufficiently evidenced by the
attendance at it's meeting last Wednesday
night, when of the thirteen members pres
ent twelve were deputies and office hold
ers,
Erastus Barnes of Pomona Is anxious
for the Republican nomination Of record
er, He will have the solid Pomona dele
cation back of him. Pomona is one of the
Republican strongholds, and yet 1t is a
singular fact that she has not been given
a nomination on the county ticket for the
last dozen years.
The Bakersfield Californian sums up u
8. Grant and his United States senatorial
boom In this pointed manner:
"A ten-minute conversation with him
(Grant) is sufficient to convince the most
ardent hero.worshiper that the son of the
great Grant Is cast in a common mold,
and that he has not the faintest concep-
ton of the issues with which a senator
must deal or of the problems that will
necessarily come before the national leg
islature for solution.
mr.. Grant is a very ordinary young man.
He knows it himself, and is shy-even tim
id-about expressing himself on the COM
monest issue. He lodges question when
put point-blank to him. and refers one to
his political manager He is doubtless
a nice young man and a good citizen. II
his name had not been Grant, he would
never have been mentioned for senator, or
for any position involving an intelligence
above the common. His San Diego friends
are unwise to force him into contest that
cannot but end in defeat. or. should It, per-
chance. be successful, then force him
into a position. the surroundings of which
would embarrass the holder not a little"
SCRUTATOR.