Show gen elss prospects for becoming thi the lin master anter 0 of f the party in ili california are arc not bright ills chief apparent rent difficulty at present Is that thai he Is in under contract to boom aall finn for the presidency whereas most other republicans seem to be on lire fire or 0 r 1 niev but aside from this arr temporary r y gen spreckels has haa to struggle under a permanent and heavy handicap hla his brains aro are not of the kind that thai can be used lisp befit beat in politics neither Is in the quantity of them great errati and lie Is so no unfortunate as not to be aware of this moreover his vanity asserts I 1 illicit t self in a way that interferes ter feres alth till success ills his Peu lutc tenants nans are the and even hatt had they the capacity to makeup for their patrons def deficiencies lelen P lea they could not with a due regard for their own interests exert it were they to win triumphs tor for him they could not escape the credit for their prowess qs and as the general wants whatever credit Is going coin he would not like that the general in short Is a perfectly commonplace common place rather dull and entirely self satisfied young man ith fth all the jealousy that goes with such characteristics acte to be the political adjutant of a sprocket spreckels Is like being a ron nen eral or an admiral to the emperor of china gain battles and you mouse ous his 1118 rankling and powerful envy lote loe them and suicide in H preferable to the resources of his disfavor so the generals career as a large statesman does not give promise of being either long lone or brilliant intellectually he Is iq no match for martin kelly or jerry mahoney and though in Wr fairness he ran fan not be suspected of greater scrupulousness than those publicists he knows much less legs than they do of the art and mystery of practical politics his root striking point of cupo superiority to them and ana the whole horde of trier men who 0 cluster round him or array themselves against him Is the size of 0 I 1 his pile |