Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16
DAWN OF A NEW DAY

board the unspeakable Hearst, the mall
contents. the treacherous and all those
who have cIung like barnacles to its
sides for purposes Of enrichment Of
themselves and Of destruction Of tho
party.
Having purged itself in a day Of all
those sinister influences which have
kept II divided and inharmonious, it's
members now stand shoulder to shoul-
der. earnest, enthusiastic and moving
as one man against the common enc
mics Of the people.
For this blessed condition of affairs
The Herald has labored incessantly
during the past two years. 1t has
pleaded, argued and worked for the
harmony Of the Democratic party and
the elevation of its best and strongest
men. 1t has used every effort to show
that harmony was impossible as long
as william r. Hearst hung upon the
party's skirts, pretending to be DEM
ocrat and yet covertly trying to drag
the party to it's ruin in order that he
might rise above the wreck as a can
didate for president of the United
States.
The Democrats Of California agreed
with The Herald that the first move
ment Of the campaign should be the
ruthless kicking out OF William r.
Hearst and that vigorous act was duly
accomplished at Sacramento with a
unanimity of sentiment at once sur
prising and delightful.
This act cleared the decks.
Then came the nomination of the
best state ticket and the adoption of
the best platform of principles ever
presented by any party to the people
of California.
Every movement suggested and
fought for by The Herald has met the
approval of the united Democracy of
this state, and now there exists no
reason why the party should not win
such victory in November as will
startle the country and give the ma
tional Democracy such impetus as will
send it booming, enthusiastic and in
vincible, into the presidential campaign
of 1908.
Conditions in California never were
so ripe for success as now. Every de-
cent Republican in the state is in open
revolt against the Southern Pacific
ticket nominated at Santa Cruz Every
sensible Republican knows that Con-
| gresham Gillett's nomination was de-
termined upon in Wall street last Janu-
| airy, and nobody in California ever
dreamed of such a thing until Harri-
man, at a banquet in Washington, an
nounced Gillett as the next governor of
this state.
The Republicans of California were
never consulted. Hartman, in his
| rough rider way, decided the all-im-
portant question for himself and then
notified his hired bosses to carry out
his mandate.
Everybody knows that to be true.
Everybody is aware of the fact that no
Republican in Los Angeles county had
the privilege of expressing his prefer
ence for any nominee on the state
or county ticket, but that those tickets
were notoriously prearranged by the
Southern Pacific and machine interests.
Thus it came about that when Theo-
dore A. Bell was nominated by the
Democrats for governor he at once de-
clared the issue to be in this state the
emancipation of the people from the
domination, upon one side, of the rail-
road Republican machine, and upon tho
other side the demagogy and anarchy
Of VIM. r. Hearst. Theodore Bell rep
resents the people on this issue He is
the leader of the only party that can
overthrow the tremendous corporate
and anarchistic powers that have seized
upon California and controlled it as
though it were their very own.
The issues are made. The candidates
are named. 1t rests with the honest,
decent people of California to deter
mine whether they will vote for the
Southern Pacific railroad, Abe Ruef,
Boss Herrin, Boss Parker and Willie
Hearst, or the brave, popular leader
Theodore Bell, and the Democratic
| marty And the neOple never had n