Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-07
BELL ATTACKS
CORPORATIONS
SPEECH WINS APPLAUSE AT
BEACH CITIES
Democratic Candidate Captures Ocean
Park, Venice and Santa Monica
With His Arragnment of
Republicans
CoptInn. 3 from pnre ono.

hearing the Democratic Standard
bearer by leaving the hall.
When Mr.. Bell appeared he was
greeted by tremendous applause. The
audience, among which were many wo-
men, plainly showed that it was in
sympathy with the occasion, and 1t was
unstinted in it's applause throughout
Mr.. Bells speech.
Especially was the cheering long and
loud when Mr.. Bell declared that simp-
ly in order to wreck the railroad ma
chine the good. decent Republicans Of
the state, looking with scorn upon the
results Of the Santa Cruz convention,
would assist the Democrats in winning
victory for good government.
Clever thrusts at Herrin and Parker
also were greeted with cheers and
hand-clapping, and the speaker raised
storm of approving shouts by de-
claring that before the Sacramento
convention it was a very sickly affair
by reason of the fact that it was suf-
fering from the fashionable disease Of
appendicitis; but that the appendix
Hearst-had been severed by the Sacra-
mento convention, and now the Demo-
cratic party was WELL strong and self
respecting.
Issue Is Decent Government
A telling point in Mr.. Bells address
and which was cheered to the echo
was quotation from the address of
Charles e. Hughes, Republican nominee
for governor of New York:
What then, is the supreme issue in
this campaign? 1t is not an issue of
the Republican record. 1t is not an
issue of the Republican principles or
Democratic principles. 1t is not party
issue at all. 1t is the vital issue of
decent government"
Mr.. Bell said that the situation in
New York, as shown by Mr.. Hughes
words, was the same as that in Cali
fornia, with the parties reversed In
New York 1t was fight of Republicans
and decent Democrats against an at
tempt to foist a one-man machine,
owned and operated by Hearst, upon
the state, while in California the Demo-
Gratis have kicked Hearst out of the
party and good Republicans are unit
ing with the Democrats to rid the state
of a machine that has long fastened it.
self upon the affairs of the state.
In both states the vital issue, he de-
clared, is that of decent government
against corruption and corrupt politics,
and he expressed confidence that the
result would be victory for the former.
Saw 1t in Republican Papers
Mr.. Bell caused laugh by declaring
that he did not learn from Democratic
newspapers of the methods of the
Southern Pacific machine at Santa
Cruz, but that the leading Republican
newspapers of both north and the south
had told in plain words that the nom
nations at Santa Cruz had been sold to
the man having the highest number of
votes, and that the head of the ticket
had been named by nod of the head
by Hartman, the president of the
Southern Pacific, at banquet in Wash
ington last winter.
He declared that Herrin, the first
lieutenant of Hartman, and Parker,
the second lieutenant, Immediately pro-
ceeded to carry out the orders from
headquarters, and that Gillett was
placed upon the ticket, not as the rep
resentative of the Republicans of Cali
fornia but as the representative of the
Southern Pacific,
Mr.. Bell was also heartily cheered
when he declared that Herrin and
Parker If they had had the slightest
sense of propriety after having put all
the other nominations, except that for
governor, up at auction, they would
have kept the judiciary out of the mire
of politics, but instead of doing SO they
had compelled the judges to PROSTATE
themselves in the mire of party ma
chinery
HNo man was ever freer from cor
poration influences when l accepted
the unsought nomination for governor
at Sacramento" said Mr. Bell. II owe
allegiance to no man or any interest
except to the people of the whole state,
and if elected to this high office my en-