Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-30
RULE
TRUE ISSUE OF
THIS CAMPAIGN
WILLIAMS ADDRESSES HUGE
SYMPATHETIC CROWD
WARNS HEARERS THAT LIBERTY
is IN DANGER
Rich Maefactors and Selfish Bankers
Factors That Make Democratic
Government the Nations
Sole Hope
N EoRGE FRED WILLIAMS of

VT Massachusetts talked last night
W to a Los Angeles audience which
seemed thoroughly at ease with him
and to which he seemed like an old
friend
The cordiality existing between the
Massachusetts Bryanite and his hear
ers at Simpson auditorium was
strengthened when Mr.. Williams de-
clared that he would come back again
some day, for he liked California.
His two hours talk was an answer
to the question, "Shall the people
rule?" and when he hG;1 concluded
shortly after IL o'clock there was no
doubt that the people agreed with him
on rulership.
Mr.. Williams devoted much time to
analyzing Mr.. Taft's accomplishments,
which, in the speakers view, amounted
to little unless it be that in his judi
cial career he earned the title of the
father of injunctions."
He dwelled also on the inconsistency
of man running on platform at
variance with his beliefs, and submit
ting to dictation from a man whose
platform had been repudiated by his
own party.
After the talk brief reception was
held on the stage, many reunions OF
former Bostonians taking place, but
this was cut short by the local COM
mittee surrounding Mr.. Williams and
rushing him to his automobile to catch
the 1880 train for the north.
Major w. r. Burke opened the meet
ing, Chairman Albert M. Norton of the
county committee being hoarse. He
called attention to the large attend
ance as a straw showing where all
the campaign enthusiasm lay this
year.
Burke Introduces Rush
Major Burke then introduced Jud
Rush, candidate for congress in the
| Seventh district, as chairman.
| Mr. Rush said Southern California,
on which the eyes of the world were
| turned, was doing much for the Com
moner. 1t also had much to do as yet
in material sense.
eve need harbor here, the pride
of any nation said Mr.. Rush.
"The people of Los Angeles don't
take kindly to grating. I don't refer
to the $2-a-vote grafters. I refer to
the men who like to bask in the sun
shine of corporations which are try
| ing to get something from the people
| they are not entitled to; who peddle
favors and obey the crack of the whip
of the master.
1--WE of Los Angeles want men who
are willing to stand up and be counted.
"If I happen to run faster than you
think a fat man can ard get into con-
gress, I want to tell you I'll try to be
an American and for America. If |
represent any one I'll represent my
district, and l won't be afraid of a
scrap.
"If that distinguished stranger of
national legislation, Joe Cannon, should
want to be speaker again; If he should
sneer against the peoples representa-
tives, I'll be against him."
Then inweli chosen words he pre-
sented the national speaker as one
whom all Californians knew by repu-
tation at least.
His First Visit
For years. said Mr. Williams, "it
has been my ambition to visit the peo-
Pile of the Pacific coast to make their
acquaintance, and if possible win their
friendship.
From the cordial reception I have
received here I judge 1 have not far
to go to find friendship. (Cheers).
'I come, as many of you doubtless
have come, either by yourselves or
through your ancestors. from a section
consecrated to liberty by the sacrifices
of the fathers.
'For the preservation and extension
of the principles won by the colonists
of New England we may have to look
in great part to the people OF the west
"Over a century anG quarter ago
the question was asked, Shall the peo-
pie ruler In those days it was against
a king that the people raised their
voice. From Denver last July there
came another voice. 1t was the voice
of the people of today"
Public Opinion Changed
Mr.. williams dwelled on the condi-
tions under which the people, impress
sed by the industrial, commercial and
financial growth of the times, came to
look on the captains of finance and in
dustry as of high order of citizen
ship.
MANY of our citizens, 1t is true.
have looked to the heads of our trans
ers," he said. "They have come to re-
gard them as national leaders in great
material development But in trusting
these great leaders we have discovered
that they have forgotten their duties;
that they have turned their talents and
effectiveness against us. They have
used them for their own profit"
He referred to the change that had
come over the people within the past
three years. Idols have fallen; reputa-
tions have crushed; thousands of hon
est Republicans had begun to leave
their party. They had a conscience.
The insurance and high finance scan
dals revealed that. after all, the men
at the top had been using the peoples
money mainly to enrich themselves;
that watered stock selling had taken
the place of legitimate trading.
Denounces Hartman
Some time was devoted to denounc-
ing Hartman and his methods. The
people of California were now paying
the bills of the Republican party con-
tracted when 1t forced the Hartman
crowd to contribute a quarter Of mil
lion to the party's campaign fund.
You are today paying the bills that
Theodore Roosevelt contracted he
said, amid cheers.
He then dissected the manipulations
which enriched the Ryan Widener-El-
kins- Whitney-Dolan crowd.
"These high flnanciers dreaded most
the election of Bryan and next his
nomination." said Mr.. Williams. 'and
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