The San Francisco call., 1908-04-21
PEOPLE MUST END
RULE OF HARTMAN
Charles S. Wheeler Tells Voters
of Melrose to Break
New York Wire

OAKLAND, April 20.--Denunciation
of political machine rule was the
theme Of an eloquent address made by
Charles Stetson Wheeler of San Fran
cisco before the Lincoln-R Roosevelt
league at Melrose hall this evening be-
fore an Interested audience which re-
ceived his speech enthusiastically.
The people of Alameda county have
allowed others to build up a machine
of government that can be run with a
foreign wire." he declared.
DO you know that your present form
Of government. instead OF being a gov
ernment for the people, OF the people
and by the people, Is dictated and
dealt out to you from an Office in a
foreign state? A wire from New York
tells you who your judge, your gov
ernor or your congressman shall be.
COUNTRY IS IN DANGER
Our country is not safe as long as
you slumber on your rights. The time
has come for a revolution-not a
bloody revolution, but general stand
ing forth as men to assert your rights
You must come forth and vote. If
our government Is ever In danger of
being destroyed the danger will not
come from without. 1t will come from
dry rot within.
Twenty-Five years more of the pres
ent political lethargy among our best
citizens will place strain on our
institutions that they may not be able
to Withstand. But II we assert our
selves now and fight for the principles
of honest government we can drive
away the shadow of danger from our
midst
Principle is the foundation of the
Lincoln Roosevelt movement. Our gov
nm ant &c
people. The peoples right to rule
makes government, and the many of
men must rule the people"
URGES BREAKING OF BONDS
A strong appeal to the people of the
country to throw off the bonds of ring
rule and demand honest representation
In the legislative bodies was made by
F. +. Morse, first vice president of the
fifty first assembly district division of
the Lincoln Roosevelt league. He said:
II appeal to you to throw off your
lethargy and wake to a fuller realiZa-
tion of the opportunities that comfort
you. The time has come for the people
of this district to rise and fight against
the ring that is disfranchising u.s. We
believe In a government of the people,
for the people and by the people, but
we are sending representatives to the
Legislature and the conventions that do
not represent us 1t is time for us to
change this order of things.
IS STENCIL IN NOsTRILS
THE Southern Pacific company. with
its various machines and combines,
knows neither honor nor honesty. It's
greedy. grasping politics are a stencil
in the nostrils of the state.
"A great many of the people OF this
community are in sympathy with the
Lincoln Roosevelt league movement.
We shall make ourselves felt at the
ballot boxes There are sti tiaightfor-
ward men In the community who could
walk with honor In the legislative
halls. and the time has come when we
must choose such men to represent U.S.
The meeting was closed with speeches
by Earl Bingham and DR.. T. B. Holmes,
president of the ffty-firs assembly dis
trict Lincoln Roosevelt league. Fran
els ]. Heney Will be the chief speaker
at another rally to be held at MeIrose
next week