The San Francisco call., 1906-09-29

bAkERSFIElLD, Sept. 2S.-After a
day of personal canvassing in visalia
and Tulare Bell and Toland spoke to-
night at Bakersfield to the most en-
thusiastic gathering that has yet greet
ed them in this trip down the San
Joaquin Valley. 1t had been thought
as the Democratic candidate got farther
south and farther away from the coun-
ties where he was better known
that Bells receptions would lack
the volume they had had in
the north. 1t may have been
partly due to good management and
the presence OF Timothy Spellacy, who
joined the party today. but the fact
was evident that there was not only
more noise but more enthusiastic
gathering here at Bakersfield. and one
which has only been exceeded in num-
bers by the open-air meeting at Fres-
no. Several of the vice presidents who
sat on the platform with Bell tonight
were Republicans, including the City
here and 1t Is reported to be solid for
Bell
Arriving at the Kern station Bell
and Toland were met by a party of
bakersfield Democrats and driven into
the city In carriages decorated with
hags and bunting. Between lines of
red nre and amid the din of cannon
crackers. the candidates were driven to
thelr MOTEL The enthusiasm of the
nrst reception was redoubled when
bell and the other speakers were es-
corted to Armory Hall by a procession
or goo marching men bearing trans
parencies and headed by the Bakersfield
pand In the glare of Greek fire and
the din or the symbols of the Demo-
cratic campaign the procession reached
the hail The noise surpassed any
thing that has heretofore greeted the
candidates. 1t was volcano of Iurid
hubbub.
COW BELLS ADD TO DIN.
When Bell was introduced 1900 men
went wild with enthusiasm and half a
thousand COW bells rung out their
oeaIening din. After order had been
restored Bell began as follows:
If i receive another enthusiastic re-
ception like this shall be sure that
| am to be the next Governor of Cali
fornia. l thought when I reached
bakersneld that should find strangers
here, but you all seem to be friends. I
don't take to myself the full credit
for such magnificent meeting-it is
due to the fact that the people are
rising-Democrats and Republicans
alike--against boss rule and a corrupt
railroad dominion. Because the Labor
ohioh patty 10 StdnQiHB DeQlQQ me IN
this campaign. they are insinuating
that some mysterious influence in San
Francisco has done this. Now, it is
hard to take the negative and make
the denial but 1 want to say that no
man is making a campaign for me or
debating to me the positions I shall
take"
Referring to the situation in New
York, Bell then said:
They may talk about riot and they
may talk about rottenness in the New
York Democracy, but we propose to
make Democracy In California a clean
thing, which all men may respect"
Abiding to the Southern Pacific, he
said Now, while the people are cry-
ing In vain for more cars to transport
their fruit and their oil, crying for
greater terminal facilities, this great
monopoly has the audacity to think
that the people of the State will flock
to the polls and vote as that railroad
dictated at Santa Cruz. My friends,
are you going to do itr (Repeated
cries Of 'No.')
WORK. AHEAD FOR HEARST.
Bell used much the same speech
which he had made at other points in
the valley, varying his denunciation of
Southern Pacific monopoly and Herrin
rule with new phrases. When he came
to speak of the candidate of the Inde-
pendence League he intimated that
even Hearst would find ii impossible
to be a Democratic candidate in New
York and an avowed destroyer of the
Democratic party in California, and
that the editor would have to scuttle
the Independence League on this side
of the continent as he had done on the
other.
A part of the audience which had
listened attentively to Bell left the
hall at the conclusion of his speech.
but those who remained gave their at
tention to Thomas o. Toland, who was
the concluding speaker of the evening.
With three cheers for the Democratic
ticket and more music from the band
the meeting came to a close.
An unfortunate incident Of the ceIe-
bration was the accident which befeil
fifteen year-old boy, Calvin Brunk.
who was seriously burned from the
explosion of bunch of rockets which
he was carrying In his hip pocket. He
was standing in front of the Demo-
cratic headquarters at the time the
procession started, when spark
ignited one of the rockets. Those who
were standing near attempted to seize
the rockets and pull them out of his
pockets, but in his agony the boy ran
frantically from side to side and finally
dashed against the plate glass window
of a restaurant, breaking the glass
and adding to his other injuries the
cuts which the broken glass inflicted
as he fell through the window A doc
tor was hurriedly called. and an exam