The San Francisco call., 1907-02-03
of Kings to Annex
District Reaches a Point
That Alarms Raisin Belt
FRIENDLY STAGE Is
PASSED IN CONTEST
Warning Factions Are Lash
ing Out and Affair VIII
Have an Acrid Aftermath
By George A. Van Smith
CALL HEADQUARTERS.
1907 EIGHTH STREET.

oA(NAfiElN ~ Fe0- T. he
legislative grounding saw its own
shadow today and decided to take to
It's hole while the merry war over the
separation of the Coahnga oil fields
from Fresno County. as proposed by
Kings County In general. and Assem-
blsman Mcclure IN particular. occu-
pied the center of the stage.
This contest. which has made men
vote for abhorept measures. parted
friends in anger and threatens to drag
the Governor Of the great common
wealth of California into an extremely
embarrassing position. has passed the
friendly stage Kings County people
are accused already OF opening a sack
and Fresno County politicians are her
aided by the opposition as prepared to
descend upon an unwNng Legislature
WITH the price Of unlimited fzz water
and few votes next week
The row started last summer when
the Fresno Rspub1icars stingy with
their nominations. failed to give the
Coalinga end of the county a much
desired Supervisor. possibly because
that end Of the county was Democrats.
The Democrats. promised to do better.
but 1t got no further than promise.
CoALINGA WANTED REVENGE
Then Coalinga went out for revenge.
Republicans voted the Democrats
ticket so consistently that Assembly
man Chandler came within forty-six OF
joining the down and out club. Before
the voting the Coalinga people went
over into Kings and primed Mcclure to
enter the lists for them. Mcclure could
hear them as easily as could his con-
stituents- The Coallnga district com
prises 1400 square miles. It's oil wells
are worth probably more than $4,000
900 and are assessed for 31.5oo.o00.
That is half of the assessed valuation
of Kings County and one-tenth OF the
assessed valuation Of Fresno.
Mcclure was elected. came to Sacra-
mento and began buying wine He also
paid strict attention 70 the matter OF
accommodating votes in the Assembly
for his measure. AS an Assembly vote
getter he soon demonstrated that he
had Drew and Chandler. the Fresno
County Assemblymen. beat the length
OF the stretch. and running with wrap
at that The Fresno people = ERE in
clined to look with fine disdain upon
the efforts of the young man from
Kings until upon a recent morning,
when they awakened to the fact that
so far as the Assembly was concerned
he had them chained to the post. Cart
wright, the Democratic Senator from
the Fresno district was given the dis
tress signal He Is one OF the cleverese
men In the upper House. and the poll
he made on the sixth floor somewhat
revived the spirits Of the defenders.
who saw only defeat for them on the
second foor OF Red Mems Hall
BAD BLOOD ENGENDERED
Between the alternating hopes and
fears Of the warning factions real bad
blood had been engendered. The three
<NcoCA4ADAJ AACLA A0PA CScnlA46 the Gull
tending districts have. by the exigsncies
Of the fight. been compelled to stultify
themselves. and the State may. as a
further result OF the row, be deprived
OF the services Of three Of It's cleanese
legislators None OF the trio darss say
his soul is his own Chandler 10 dis
gusted and says he will not seek re-
nomination Drew now has the oppo-
sition OF thu Republican organizations
and the Coalinga crowd. so his chances
are mono too good. and II MCGUIRE cant
win out Kings will be disgusted with
him. If he. does win out. Gillett IS IN
a nx.
Chandler Is known as one OF the
cleanest. straightest men in the Legis-
Iature. Drew Is one OF the men relied
upon to do the right thing. The worst
thing said about him and the best. Is
that he refuses to take programme.
Mcclure is clean. bright. young fell
low He has money to spend In his
fight for entertainment-plen OF it,
but he has none for the purchase OF
votes and 1t is only fair to believe he
would not be party to that kind OF q
purchase Each Of the THO was On