The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27

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They can take william Randolph
Hearst and they may keep him, but l
shall continue to ply the lash until the
sun sets on election day"
With these words Theodore Bell put
himself on record this afternoon at
Merced as determined to continue the
fight against Hearst whatever attempts
the editor might make to get himself
rfinstated in the good graces of the
California Democracy
Interesting comment on the situa-
tion has arisen among those who are
close to Bell. They are saying today
that 1t will be impossible for Hearst to
be a Democrat on one side of the con-
tinent and a Doodle Dee on the other,
and that the Hearst papers, in the
event of Hearsts nomination, will have
for Governor in California as well as
the Democratic candidate for Governor
in New York. The only difference will
be that Bell will continue 10 search
the English language for words TO
denounce "the traitor" even If Hearst
should be driven to the necessity of
supporting Bell in the columns of the
he would take such a course he replied
with a smile:
Nothing would please me better"
NOT A MAN RESPONDER.
IF there is Hearst Democrat in
the audience, let him stand up" was
the invitation which Bell made today.
but there were none TO accept. Hasn't
this man Hearst been telling you here
In the San Joaquin Valley year after
year that he was your savior against
the domination OF the railroad which
was taking from you all that the traf-
fic would bear? That his love for you
was as great as that of the man who
walked by the sea of Galilee7 And
now, when the opportunity comes TO
break the rule of the railroads, when
every good man should stand shoulder
to shoulder in the cause to destroy the
power of Herrin, where Is this man
who told you that he was your saw
for? He has Joined In the attack on
those who are fighting the railroads,
become traitor to the cause for his
own selfish gain, and is working for the
destruction of the Democratic party"
From Modesto to Fresno. morning.
noon and evening. found Bell standing
before an audience. Now it was under
the big tree which overhangs the inn
at Turlock, again ii was in the central
skating rink at Merced. and later here
at Fresno he addressed one of the
largest audiences he has yet met
CAMPAIGNING IN AUTOS.
Bell and his party left Modesto this
morning at 10 o'clock in two automo-
biles. Judge Fulkerth, District Attor-
ney Maddux and c. II. Geer of Turlock
were of the party, which sped over the
well-ofled county roads to the south
The first stop was made at Ceres, where
the candidate was introduced TO every
one in town. The train which the
party was to take for Merced was half
an hour late, which gave the candidates
the opportunity TO prolong his remarks
and TO say that it. was the only time
the Southern Pacific had ever done him
a favor.
When the train drew in at Merced
band was dispensing melody on the
platform and a goodly crowd of the
Democracy of the town was there to
welcome the candidate for Governor.
who was Immediately escorted to the
meeting place and introduced by Dis
trict Attorney E. III. Hoar. the chair
man of the afternoon Bell then spoke
in part as follows:
DENOUNCES BOSS HERRIN.
I regret that the shortness of the
campaign has compelled you to come
to greet the candidates of the Demo-
cratic party. but California is a big
State and we have to distribute our
selves as best we may.
You have a right to investigate the
conventions as well as the candidates
which they have nominated. At the
convention which met at Santa Cruz
every principle of honor and upright
ness upon which our country is founded
was broken. Is there a Republican who
attended that convention who will say
that the voice of the honest and the
thinking men In the party was heard
at that convention? 1t was manipulat-
ed by the Infamous railroad boss. Will
liam +. Herrin- The Republican party.
by it's indifference at the primaries, has
allowed that man. who calls himself
Democrat, by what right / know not.
to control its convention, and every
paper which reported its doings has
testified to that fact.
Do you suppose that Herrin went to
Santa Cruz for the mere pleasure of
naming the Republican ticket and bar
gaining with the Judges for place on
the bench? He went there for the
basest and most sordid reasons-to
perpetuate the railroad monopoly, to
allow the Southern Pacific to continue
to stand in the gateway of California
and say to every other road which
cannot come. II you attempt it we
viii penalize you by and through the
judiciary. which we control" That's
he was lighting for the admission of
the Western Pacific to deep water on
our coast. and If you place the State
Pacific boss has nominated you will
give 1T the power to keep these lines
out of the State.
JUDICIARY INVOLVED.
1t is a dastardly, cowardly attempt
TO trail the ermine in the dirt and then
they come out of that convention and
proclaim in loud and resonant terms,
This Is a Republican campaign"
Is the Republican party, which put
down slavery in our land, to become
servile to Boss Herrin and the Southern
Pacific monopoly?
But they say that running for office
is no Sunday-school work. And the
news that comes from that other con-
vention which is meeting today in
Buffalo leads the people to believe It,
But IL we sit passively by and believe
that there is no morality In statesman
ship what Is going to become Of this
country we love? Ny friends, this ma
tion of ours was not founded on such
wrongs as these.
After the speech at Merced. Bell and
his party took the afternoon train for
Fresno, arriving there at o'clock.
They were met at the station by a re-
ception committee headed by Chairman
Manson F. Mccormick and Secretary L.
O. Stevens OF the county committee.
other members being NJ. K. Harris, Da-
vid s. Ewing. w. d. Foote and E. d.
Edwards, who escorted Bell and To-