The San Francisco call., 1906-09-16
Democrats Face Logical
Absurdity in Their
Fight for Success.

The politicians of all parties have
settled down after their convention la
bors TO prepare for the speechmalSing 6
and the red fire of the active cam
paign among the people. 1t is the pur-
pose of Bell to invade the south and
make himself known there. He is adj
mittedly strong in the northern coun-
ties, but carries no weight in the south.
His managers feel this condition keen
IL and realize that If he is to win he
must take largely from the heavy Re-
publican vote which for so many years
hase been the reliance of the party and
its manipulators.
How to win this vote or any part of
it away from the Republican standard
bearer is the problem which the Dem
ocratic eampaigners see at present no
way to solve In the first place. the
southern voters do not take kindly to
mass meetings and speechmaking.
Their natural political tendency is Re-
publican, and any one who hopes to
change it must be better known in
Southern California than is Bell
In the second place, the Democrats
will be forced to make this campaign
very largely on jawbone- Funds are
ridiculously low, and there is nothing
TO indicate that they will be replen-
ished- Democratic patriots are few and
far between when it comes to opening
the money bag. This was one of the
reasons why the southern Democracy
was so extremely anxious to induce
Phelan to accept the gubernatorial
nomination.
He is well known in the southern
part of the State, is naturally asso-
ciated with the class whose votes are
now the beacon inspiring Bells hope
and is considered to be a very liberal
spender when he is on the ticket. Bell
cannot possibly hope TO supply the de-
ficiencies as Phelan could have done.
In the third place Bell enters the
contest logically handicapped as no
other Democratic nominee has been.
He has chosen to make his campaign
a protest against Hearst and Herrin.
The cry sounds well, but those who
hear IL know that Herrin had quite as
much to do in the selection of Bell as
in the choice of Gillett-
The Democratic State convention was
forced to accept Herrin, Ruef and Nc
Nab on the one side or Hearst on the
other and the delegates, tired of the
tor, accepted the trinity as a relief.
The real fight of the Democracy there
fore is not against Herrin but against
Hearst. II Is a family quarrel masked
under a great pretense Of a State cam
paign.
2 IN this 0ghr the Doodle DeeS Will
exercise every endeavor to defeat the
Democracy without entertaining a sim
gle hope of victory for themselves.
Langdon was rushed to the political
block not that any political ambition
he has might be satisfied but that he
should aid the Doodle Dees in swal
lowing the convention. Wien this fail
ed ii would have been political mercy
to permit Lsngdon TO retire. but politi
cal mercy is not one of the traits of
the Doodle Dees.
The District Attorney will make the
race to defeat Bell and strive to OBJ
tain votes enough to give Hearst suf-
ficient standing TO establish State
and local party of his own. This party,
organized in the several States, will be
used to threaten the national Democ-
pacy into an acceptance Of Hearst or
to help in defeating Bryan IL he is
nominated by the Democrats.
An impression seems to prevail that
Judge John CARRIER, one of the Demo-
cratic naminees for the appellate bench.
is the direct opponent OF Judge Carroll
Cook. This is not the case. Cook must
make the race against Judge Cooper,
one of the incumbents and one Of the
most highly accomplished jurists In the
State