Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-29
A PLAIN SITUATION


from Tuesday find the clouds which
obscured their vision suddenly rift and
the clear light shining through in a
most remarka BILE manner.
There are five candidates for gov
ernor in California, but the race lies
entirely between two-Bell and Gil
lett.
Langdon, the puppet set up TO pull
the Hearst chestnuts out of the fire,
has been utterly eliminated--if he ever
was in the race, which only he be-
lieves. The whole wretched and de-
plorable situation in San Francisco is
Justly laid at his door, He was elected
as the sworn prosecuting attorney for
that city. Instead of attending to his
duties, he went wind jamming about
the state, abandoning his office and his
work, while crime was rampant and
the stricken city groaned beneath its
burden of lawlessness, even going to
the extremity of seeking to form a
vigilante committee that 1t might get
a measure of safety through mob law.
Very justly and rightly this unfalth-
full, unworthy servant was suspended
from office, as his sponsor was booted
out Of the Democratic party which he
disgraced. The elimination of Lang
don from the gubernatorial race thus
became a political as it was already an
actual fact.
How, then, about Gillett? The party
of misrule, graft and anarchy in San
Francisco is fathered, led and ruled
by Abe Ruef, the most notorious boss
that city ever had. This Abe Ruef
has aspirations to represent California
in the senate-God save the mark.
He has, Of late, fallen out with Lang
don and his hacker, Hearst, and an
exposure of his misdeeds, as palpably
insincere and optnly for political pur-
poses as is possible to imagine, has
brought him within the shadow of
states prison. This same Abe Ruef
is now fighting for his very freedom
and his chief hacker and attorney is
w. f. Herrin, boss of the s. P. in
California.
AS every child knows, Gillett, the
Republican candidate for governor,
was first selected in washington last
winter by z. H. Hartman, owner of
the s. P. He was groomed by the
S. P. from that time till the campaign
opened with his nomination at Santa
Cruz, in convention owned body and
soul by the S. p, presided over by
its attorney and dominated by Boss
Parker. At this convention but one
discordant element appeared-Abe
Ruef, bargaining for political favors.
Preceding the actual meeting a secret
conference confirmed the dicker be-
tewen Ruef, the CRATER now in pris-
named Gillett. A photograph Of this
conference has been printed in The
Herald. In 1t appear Mckinley, Par
ker and all the rest, including Ruef,
on whose shoulder, as on a rock of
salvation, Gillett leans. In the con-
vention Ruef delivered the goods he
had pledged and Gillett, with his back
ing, was named. Ruef now stands in
the shadow of the law, and it is
to Gillett he looks to free him, If the
verdict of guilty.
What have we here. then? Langdon,
Hearst puppet, whose unfaithfulness
and political byplay for his own glory
made the situation possible, and Gill
lett, the Ruef-S. P. puppet, upon whom
all depend to take care of them IL no
other escape opens. If Langdon be
elected-an utter impossibility-the
state gets weakling sycophant of
Hearst anarchy, negligent of'his sworn
Ruef; If Gillett be elected, an S. p
owned candidate Of circumstances,
nominated by and relying upon Abe
Ruef, who must make good his part
of the bargain by freeing from danger
the Ruef who gave him the nomina-
tion-in either case, a disgrace and
danger to the state.
What is the alternative? Theodore
A. Bell of Napa; free man. Named
in an open convention, out of which
Hearst, with all his malodorous fol-
lowing and the s. p, with all it's
crooked tribe, were nercilessly booted.
Theodore A. Bell, who defied and con-
tinues to defy the whole defiant helrs
brood of corruption which seeks to
fasten upon and tester in California.
Theodore A. Bell, bold, fearless, de-
fiant, who hurls iTnprecations alike
upon Hearst and Herrin, Ruef and
Langdon, the S. p. machine and the
San Francisco corrupt and rotten
gangsters. Theodore A. Bell-named
neither by yellow yawper for per-
sonal ends nor by a railroad machine,
but daring to fight both in the open,
because selected as their standard
bearer by convention of the people
themselves.
That's all there is to 1t, voters of
California. 1t is childishly simple and
plain. Will Won have IanRdon the