Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16
BELL IS COMING
TO Los AN CEtES
SEPTEMBER 20 IS NAMED AS
THE DATE
Arrangements to Be Made for Giving
the Democratic Nominee Great
Reception-Miton K. Young
Tells of Convention

| Theodore A. Fell, DemocrdtlC Holiiii1'
for governor of California, will be III
Los Angeles September 20.
I Milton K. Young, chairman OF the
Democratic county committee, yester-
day received a telegram from Timothy
Spelacy. chairman of the state CEN
tral committee, announcing that Mr..
Bell would be in Los Angeles on the
date named
| Arrangements will at once be made
for holding a reception in honor of the
Democratic standard bearer and 10
hold a great meeting which will mark
the inauguration of the Democratic
campaign in Southern California.
! Delegates returning from Sacramento
are imbued with the greatest enthusl-
| asm over the ticket and over the out
look for Democratic success in Novem-
Der. Mr.. Bell is known as a splendid
! campaigner, and it is expected that the
! Democratic campaign this year will be
the most vigorous ever held by the
party in California.
Talks of the Convention
Milton K. Young was among the
delegates who returned yesterday from
1 the north.
THE convention held in Sacramento
was one of the best attended l have
ever seen and. was interesting from
the time of it's opening by the state
chairman, Mr.. Spellacy, until the fall
of the gavel of the permanent chair
man, Robert M. Fitzgerald" said Mr.
Young
Many of the delegates of the Los
Angeles delegation arrived in Sacra-
mento on Sunday night. At that time
few of the delegates from other points
in the state had arrived. In this dele
cation were Judge Trask, Joseph H.
Call, Robert G. LouckS, Nathan Cole
and Others The gentlemen named ana
myself were intensely interested in the
adoption of a platform which would
put the Democratic party on record as
being free and Independent from rail-
road and corporation control. 1t was
evident that James D. Phelan had not
manifested any intention of becoming
the Democratic nominee for governor
and Marshall Diggs of Sacramento
seemed to have the right of way.
S. P. Work Suspected
"Personally, he is a splendid gentle
man, but in the opinion of NUMBER
of delegates he would not make a
strong candidate before the people anu
the Southern Pacific company was sup
porting him, as it was doubtless the
Intention of that corporation to nom
mate a candidate in. our convention 10
be defeated by Mr.. Gillett the Repub-
lican nominee.
"At 12 O'Clock Sunday night the gem
tlemen named called upon Mr. Bell at
his rooms in the Capitol hotel ana
stated to him that they were interested
fifs Nnr W
itself upon record in regard, to cor
porations and railroad domination in
politics and that we thought he was
the man to make the race.
He said that to be a candidate for
governor upon such a platform would
be more gratifying to him than the ful-
filing OF any other ambition, but that
he could not become a candidate until
Mr.. Digs had given his consent as
Mr.. Diggs had stated to him that he
thought he should keep out of the race.
as he (Diggs) had been making can
vass for some time and Mr. Bell should
have become a candidate earlier.
AT this meeting there were also pres
ent Mr.. Spellaoy and Mr.. Carmichael.
the latter representing Mr.. Diggs. 1t
was finally arranged that conference
between Mr.. Diggs' friends and those
desiring Mr.. Bell to become a candi-
cision OF that conference would deter
mine whether Mr. Bell enter the race,
but the incoming delegations were so
strongly In favor of Mr.. Bell and the
Los Angeles delegation to man, and
having armed themselves with bells of
all kinds, from sleigh bells to farm din
ner bells, purchased at Mr.. Diggs' hard
ware store, continued to ring the bell
chimes until the enthusiasm became
unanimous, with the result that Mr..
Diggs withdrew from the race.
THE committee upon platform and
resolutions numbered among its mem
bers Frank G. Finlayson. Stephen c..
Long, Robert G. Loucks, Judge d. K.
Trask. Jos. H. Call, Former Congress-
man Thomas Geary. Robert M. Yost
Senator Curtain and Judge Baker.
Their work was arduous, the COM
mittee being in session from 8
o'clock In the evening until o'clock
the next morning, sand about all
of the different kinds of planks that
the imagination can think were pre-
sented. OF course. many planks we're
rejected and others modified. The re-
suit. however is evidenced by the plat
form adopted and it was nodded In all
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