The San Francisco call., 1906-09-16
Napa Man Outlines His
Plans and Policies in
the Struggle.
By Thomas B. Sullivan.

Theodore A. Bell. the Democratic
nominee for Governor, arrived in. the
city yesterday TO make preparations for
the beginning of his campaign. Mr..
Bell was accompanied by Thomas o.
Tolano. the Democratic nominee for.
Lieutenant Governor. There is much
of very essential work to be done be-
fore these men go into the State to
struggle for votes. The State central
committee must commence its labors
and organization for that purpose will
be made at once. Speakers are to be
sent into the field and the leading can
didates are to be given whatever may
be possible in the way of encourage
ment and assistance.
The personality of Bell tells very
clearly the reason of much of his past
political success. He is young enough
10 be enthusiastic and aggressive and
old enough 10 be temperate and con-
servative in his expression of opinion
on topics either of State or national.
import. He speaks well and has evil
IDENTIFY learned the lesson of closing his
school books and leaving platitudes Sc
vereIy alone.
He doesn't want to reform the earth
and he doesn't believe that everything
in California has gone to the demni-
tion bowwows. He believes that the
State Democracy has a certain import
ant message to deliver to the people
of California and until he returns a
private citizen 20 his Napa home he
intends to preach that message with
all the power of expression he pos
sesses.
My text in this campaign" he said
yesterday. will be Herrin and Hearst
1t is text that fairly throbs with pos
sibilities and 1 intend to tell the people
of the State some plain truths about
these men and what they represent
The Southern Pacific Company has be-
come menacing engine of immortality
in this State. It works for evil in
mems consciences and in their deeds
1t degrades public servants and pollutes
public sentiment It's graft and greed
have become powers that affect the life
even of the State itself, and when
ask the people of California to destroy
them / believe they will rally TO my
support
II intend at no time to descend to
personalities, but William F. Herrin
typifes TO the people of California the
corporate villainies of the Southern Pa
cihc Company. He has accepted the
duty of prostituting communities and
he must accept the responsibility OF all
that goes with his conduct.
"Of w. r. Hearst I intend to have
much to say. He has imposed upon
those of us that labor for our living
enough to be exposed. He never was
and never will be the friend of the
workingmen. He is seeking simply to
keep these men in ferment and out of
their unrest reap some advantage to
himself.
Furthermore, he is not Democrat
He has posed as one only to dominate
the partys activities to his selfish in
terests, or falling in that, to send 1t to
defeat in any ambition 1t may possess.
He has organized his Independence
League solely for the purpose of run
ming the Democratic party or of ruin
ing 1t in the opinion of voters. He has
no place in the Democratic party and
not a single Democratic vote in Cali
fornia should be cast in his behalf"
Mr. Bell will open his campaign next
Saturday at Vallejo and will then in
wade the southland. While he will
make Hearst and Herrin the text Of his
political sermons, he will not neglect to
make clear his position upon State poll
cies and problems. He says he intends
to assault no political windmills, but
IL he becomes Governor of California
he will bend every official energy to an
effort to have the school teachers of the
State receive pay commensurate with
their service. He has been school
teacher himself; he is deeply inter
ested in the cause of education; he
wants more teachers and he wants
them better paid. He says this with
the same snap that won him applause
at Sacramento.
Further than this If Mr.. Bell were
Governor he would encourage in every
possible way the building of railroads
in the State. particularly those of cleo
trio power. He believes in free ave-
nues of communication. He would like
to see the problem of Transportation
made an uncomfortable memory. He
wants the navigable rivers improved.
1t will relieve the freight situation.
Mr. Bell speaks with directness and he
has evidently defined for himself a
policy that certainly is not unpopular.
If he were Governor. he says. he
would strive for close association be-
tween the Federal and the State gov
ernments to reclaim the arid and
swamp lands of the State and to reg
ulate hydraulic mining equitably to
every interest involved But while he
makes his campaign he will not per-
NIT those who hear him to forget that
Hearst and Herrin are the personified
dangers against which the people
of California must protect themselves.