The San Francisco call., 1906-09-21
observation-disclosures S
Fight Is Opened by
Langdon.
Nominations Ratified
at Meeting at Dolores
Hall.

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Ban francisco District Attorney Will
lam H. Langdon. nominee of Hearst's
Independence League for Governor of
Cailfernia, launched his campaign at
Dolores Hall, Sixteenth street, near
dolores, last evening. The hall was
Well hlied with league sympathizers
and the curious, the latter in the ma
Jorlty, and to a safe and sane partisan
the theories of the party leaders were
a revelation. As the meeting had been
labeled as one called to ratify the
nominations of the party, this for
mality was first disposed Of
James F. Peck of Alameda fired the
opening gun toward the strong
hold of the intrenched and cor
rupt foe." He said the founda-
tion of the Hearst party was
anti bossism and Government owner
ship, and that with these ideals in view
the leaders had come into the most
corrupt community, the. most rotten
borough In all the State and picked
| all for honesty and incorFuptibility-
William H. Hangdon. Mr. Peck then
requested that the gathering take the
roof off with three cheers. The cheers
We're given, but the roof remained, so
the Knickerbocker Quartet sang My
Old Kentucky Home" which was fol-
lowed by Hail to the Chief by the
band as Langdon came stridin &
through the crowd toward the platform.
ONLY LACKS THE HATcHET.
1t was with some difficulty that the
crowd was held in leash while II. G..
| Davis, league nominee for Congress in
the Fifth, who declared himself the
selection of the common people of his
district, voiced his views. Tariff revis-
ion, rebate on building materials for
San Francisco, freedom for the Fill
pinos and universal eight-hour law
were among the things Mr. Davis prom
ised to secure should a kind providence.
aided by the voters. send him to Wash
ington.
Mr. Davis gave way to the secretary,
who read kilograms of fealty from j.
II. Blagge, the leagues nominee for
Lieutenant Governors Henry e. Mills
and Frank II. Farrar
Chairman Peck again took charge,
and calling Mr.. Langdon to the front
of the platform, said: Ladies and
gentlemen, will introduce to you the
George Washington of San Francisco,
| William II. Langdon, the next Governor
of California" There were a score or
more of Langdop's personal friends in
the audience and they saw to it that
a liberal number of cheers were given
/ 1AiAAA. LII OutliiflHB MS position Lang
don said in part
Believing that united action is re.
i quired by the people of California an6
the United States. TO take back into
their own hands the machinery of gov.
ernment which has been insidiously
wealth called trusts. through the in,
strumentality of their paid agents,sths
bosses. and I'd nealizing that the Republi.
unequal to the task. the Independence
league off California has been organ.
lied to unite the God-fearing, we'll
all parties In the great battle to be
waged against corporate domination
and boss control in California.
PATRIOTISM ABOVE PARTY.
We stand for manly independence In
parties, = independence of corporate
domination. and Independence of boss
control. We call upon Democrats, Re-
men of all parties&who believe in thess
principles. to rally around our standard
and present united front to the con-
mon enemy, United we can restore
the machinery of government to the
people, divided our enemies continue
In power, free to pilage and plunder the
1 people at their pleasure.
We place patriotism above party and
insist that party preJudices and tradi-
tons should no longer allow men te
principles should unite them in the
same cause. The principles of Jeffer-
son. the founder of the Democratic
party, and the principles of Lincoln, the
greatest. Republican. are the same as
far as they are applied to present day
conditions. Why then should men seek
ing the same ends be arrayed In hos
tile camps? While the people are di-
vided into parties, the party bosses are
united and whichever party wins the
people lose In the Independents
League we oner common battle
good government and freedom from
boss and corporate domination may
meet and under the banner of indepen-
dence wage relentless war with GER
tainty of success against the banded
captains of greed and corruption.
| am now and have always been ar
November 6 / shall be no mans man.
shall be answerable TO no boss. / shall
be subservient to no special interest
sha be a1mnstsd 1na By no e9sp9rats In
dependent man as Governor? The peo-
pie will answer on November s.
JOHNSON is UNLEAsHED.
At the conclusion of Langdon's ad-
| dress a majority of the auditors filed
out of the hall. but the most loya
remained to hear what else was to be
said and they were well rewarded
After John Collins. candidate of the
league for State Printer; Charles w
Petrey, candidate for the Senate
Charles c. Boynton, nominee for Con-
gress in the Third District: Isaac N
Chapman, nominee for Surveyor General
and w. J. Biggy, candidate for Rail
road Commissioner, had promised to dc
all in their power to carry the ticket
through, Albert M Johnson sailed into
the opposition.
! Johnson condemned the present ad-
ministration of San Francisco as in
famous and corrupt, the service OF
the United Railroads as dastardly and
damnable and the officials of the Fed
eral. State and city governments as
lickspittles of the railroads. The house
was in an uproar OF amusement dur
ing his TRADE, but was calmed by the
more gentle oratory of j. ]. Dwyer
concluding the programme.