The herald., 1898-09-13
ORANGE COUNTr'S BOSS
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS A
BAD SPELL
Some Of the Tremendous Disadvan-
tages It Is Now Laboring
Under

situation IN orange county is peculiar one
In many respects. In the first place the
press Of this county, claiming allegiance 10
the G. o. p, has been compelled to reverse
Itself since Cages nomination. These
newspapers were all committed to the doc
trine Of a guberna torial candidate from the
north and senatorial candidate from this
end Of the state. The editors of the papers
not only reflected their own sentiments on
this important question, bu; voiced the
Judgment Of their readers as well. II was
and still Is a reasonable safe and logical
position. Colonel Burns and his push have
given these editors to understand that
neither their preferences nor their logic
Is worthy Of consideration by the really
great men who do state politics for the
Republican party in California. So they
were all turned down and are now giving
Hypnotic Harry a nominal support. The
readers of these newspapers understand
perfectly well that the rank and file Of
the Republican voters of Orange county
had nothing whatever to say about who
their candidate for the office of governor
should be, or any other state candidate for
that matter. These things will have their
influence in the county campaign, now
fully organized, to the detriment of the
dominant Republican organization.
A Republican Boss
And while The voters of this party de-
piore the, one-man method Of selecting
state candidates for their suffrages they
regret with greater poignancy the rule Of
their own local boss, who dominated their
late county convention, by methods never
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days. The name Of this Mark Hanna Of
Orange county politics is Cash Harvey, a
quondam race track manipulation and all
round sport. Harvey and his push, which
constitute the worst and most INSCRIPTIONS
element ever known to Orange county
politics, took absolute control Of the late
county convention Of that party and ran
1t to suit themselves. The respectable and
business element Of the party were alto
gether ignored, while Harvey's push put up
and knocked down whom they would.
Owing to a series of dickers and intrigues.
without any regard to decency, truthful
ness or other features of fair politics, this
man Harvey ruled the convention. He
crushed beneath his unrelenting heel some
Of the best and choicest men Of the party,
who were up for nomin ations, and, instead
Of these, put up his own political heelers
and push workers, thus thwarting the will
of the people in their convention.
Refused to Bow
H. H. Roper r. L. Freeman and 2. B.
Wes., candidates respectively for treas
urer, tax collector and district attorney.
refused to bow to Boss Harvey and were
therefore all turned down by him. No
man of any party or faction ever stood
higher In the estimation Of his fellows
than does H. H. Roper. He has enjoyed
long career Of business in the community
and has the confidence Of every person Of
all parties. The treatment Of Mr.. Roper
at the hands of the one-man convention
will cost the ticket dearly in the estima-
tion Of many well-known business men of
Santa Ana.
Still Worse
In the case of Mr.. Freeman the matter
is still worse. He is the present tax COL
lector of Orange county. He is capable,
honest, faithful and obliging to a. remark
able degree. 1t Is conceded on all hands
that he has made one Of the most efficient
and accommodating officials ever elected
to office in Orange county. He asked for
a denomination and an endorsement Of his
official career, and, since he had filled the
office but single term, he had right, In
the light Of hie faithful services, to expect
such a denomination. Boss Harvey had a
pet, however, in the person OF A. c. Jen-
n!ngs, for that Office, so he gave orders to
down Freeman and put up Jennings. and
1t was done. II the friends Of r. L. Free
man don't resent this affront your corre-
spondent will miss his guess by something
more than large majority. No one ques-
tions the proposition but what Mr.. Free
man would have been nominated II the
will of the people in the party had found
Its correct expression.
Mr.. West is serving out the unexpired
term Of Judge Ballard as district attorney,
position given him by appointment. The
board of supervisors selected him from a
list Of able attorneys. His official record
has been clean and capable. He, too, asked
the convention of his party for a nomina-
ton as an endorsement. He made the
mistake, however, Of depending upon his
merits and trusting to fair deal, and he,
therefore, ignored Boss Harvey He was
defeated for this audacity and indifference
to the mighty boss. His friends count on
a day OF reckoning. 1t will come around
on the Sth of next November. The "Of-
ficeholders' League" in the camp Of the
faithful constitutes the greatest barrier
to success. however for their ticket But
this "a another story.
w1DEAwAKE.