Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30
SANTA ANA GIVES
|. BELL ONE Of HIS
! BIGGEST 0vATI0NS
argest Hall in Town damned,
and Overflow Meeting Is
Held in Street
FTEEN SPEECHES IN A DAY
andidate Exhausted After Tri-
umphant Trip Over the
Shaped Track
FTEEN SPEECHES IN A DAY

win an audlenc5 OF z5OO people, un-
pnded in their enthusiasm, an auto
bile parade with fifty machines in
e and red fire burning all along the
Ite, Theodore A. Bell last night re-
we'd one of the greatest ovations in
1ta Ana that he has met at any of
smaller towns in the state during
vigorous campaign. The Demo-
.tic central committee of Orange
Inty was determined to give the
ader of the state Democracy every
ailable opportunity.
The largest hall in Santa Ana had
zen secured for the evening, but it
as far too small. Only 1900 people
Juld find seating or standing room,
nd at least 1000 formed an overflow
Aeeting on the street below, where
hey heard one of Bells most mastery
ddresses.
Last night Bell confined his talk
.rgely to the reforms he proposes to
Dring about in the administration of
public affairs in the state when he be-
comes governor, about the economies
he proposes to introduce and less
about the elimination of the system of
special privilege. He had told Santa
Anans what he will do about the DOM
ination of corporate influence in the
state in a previous address of his pres
ent campaign and they were satisfied
that he is sincere. 1t was largely the
good impression he made at Santa Ana
before that brought out the unprece-
dented crowd of last night.
In introducing Bell. Timothy Spellacy,
his running mate, had declared. for
non-partisan state affairs and Bell
pleaded with his hearers to lay aside
their party pdejudice and vote for
issues.
TIME FOR REFORM
at is time for reform and fretrench-
ment in this state" said Bell. "I am
going to do everything 1 can do to
bringabout a diminution of expenses
in this state, but my opponent does
not promise you anything of the kind.
l will take the board5 and commits
sions that cost SO much of the tax
payers money out of politics, and
there will be no machine to oil with
the public money. Put your taxes
against your partisanship, and then
IL your party prejudice is still so great
that you cannot vote for a Democrat,
vote for my opponent.
''I will welcome every single vote if
the man who votes for me does so
from principle. But he must take me
as I am I will make no promise, no
pledge, no compromise with anyone
that I could not publish broadcast.
You know where 1 stand. I have been
making my fight against the special
interests that control this state for
the last sixteen years. I have held
public office for ten years. My op-
ponent has been making this fight
only since 1t became popular in the
last six months. If he is elected he
may develop a breadth of character
that we may not give him credit for
now, but the man who enters public
life should do so first as an apprentice
in the smaller offices"
Bell pleaded for a favorable vote on
the two amendments to the constitu-
ton providing for the worlds exposi-
tion at San Francisco, the one levying
a direct tax of 40 cents on every thou
sand dollars and the other giving San
Francisco the right to bond itself for
$5,000,000
JUDGE BLEDsOE SPEAKS
Frank Monohan acted as chairman
of the meeting. Judge B. F. Bledsoe,
candidate for the supreme court, was
the first speaker. He made a short
talk in which he told of the matters
the supreme court would have to de-
eide and how they affected the people
of this district. He said that he had
promised that as long as he was on
the bench he would not make a polit
ical speech, and he did not.
Hiram A. Blanchard, candidate for
clerk of the supreme court; w. G. Ir-
wing, candidate for congress from the
Eighth district, and Minor Moore. can
didate for associate justice of the
court of appeal of the Second district,
spoke, each pleading the cause of Bell
more than their own, and Spellacy
made the speech preliminar- to the
principal address.
Spellacy, like Bell, has become very
hoarse from much speaking in the
open air, but he had enough voice to
tell some funny stories and declare
that all that was necessary for the
election of Bell was for the southern
part of the state to do it's duty. He
predicted that Bell would come to the
Tehachapi from the north with 10000
majority
Every speaker was we'll received, but
when Bell appeared on the platform
after addressing the overflow meeting
in the street the crowd fairly took the
roof from the building with the tre-
mendous ovation it accorded him. 1t
was several minutes before the ap
plause and the ringing of bells died
away. but when the noise did sub
side the whole house was as still as a
tomb while Bell spoke, except when he
made his most telling points, and then
the applause equaled the first ova-
ton.
MAKES FIFTEEN SPEECHES
Fifteen times yesterday Bell told his
story of the elimination of the railroad
interests from the politics of California,
and fifteen times he renewed his pledge
of an economical administration and
good, clean, honest government, to the
cities on the kite-shaped track.-in four
counties of Southern California. 1t
was one of the hardest days of his
strenuous campaign, for the speeches
he delivered were long enough for his
audiences to learn just what he was
going to do when elected to the Office of
governor.
The trip around the kite WAS made
on a. special train of three cars, one of
them a parlor car, and most of Bells
speeches were delivered from the OBJ
servation end. He was accompanied
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