Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-29
| WILL Be NEXT
GOVERNOR: BELL
Democratic Candidate Tells Long
BeaChites People Will
Get Fair Deal
WHOLE FIGHT ON SYSTEM
You Must Kill Machine or New
HerrinS Will Spring Up,
Nominee Cries
WHOLE FIGHT ON SYSTEM
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and north and the expressions he had
heard from strong Republicans, gave
him the assurance that Bell would be
the next governor and Spellacy would
be the next lieutenant governor.
II claim Bell is the father of politi-
cal reform in California" said Spell
lacy. -Four years ago he bankrupted
himself in his campaign for governor
to educate the people and at that time
he aroused public sentiment to such a
degree that he would have been elected
had there not been a third candidate
in the field.
But we must learn to do away with
partisan politics in state affairs. There
is no state office that it is necessary
for one political party to control and
1 hope to live to see the day when
there will be no party circle in the
state elections.
Lay aside your party prejudice and
take a man you know is right one
who has been tried for sixteen years
and not found wanting"
WAR WITH MONEY POWER
I.orin A. Handley, candidate for con-
gress followed Spellacy. He took up
Spellacy's remark that the party circle
should disappear from state politics.
Even in the nation 1t is not so much
n struggle between political parties as
it is a battle to wrest the nation from
the control of the money power. This
is a fight between American Democ-
racy and American plutocracy. 1t Is
the battle of property and power
against human liberty and that is the
battle Of no party, but of the people
Il believe the tariff has no place in
politics. 1t has degenerated the halls
of congress into a place for barter and
sale. The tariff should be revised by
non-partisan commission and it
should represent only the difference be-
Ia Of al
and abroad. Anything more than this
is robbery"
Then Bell entered the hall and Hand
ley's further remarks were drowned for
the moment in the applause accorded
the leader. When he rose to speak,
Bell said.
THE issue in California IS for good
clean, honest government and 1 be-
lieve my record for the last sixteen
years is guarantee that 1 believe in
good government. But after we secure
political freedom there are other things
to be done. I know l am talking in
community that is probably five to one
Republican but have no apology to
make.
II am a Democrat of the Jeffersonian
type" said Mr.. Bell in part. 1T believe
in the grand doctrine of equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.
I am going to be the next governor
of California, and that will be my
motto my guide, throughout the four
years of my administration. 1t will
be my great ambition to see that every
man. whether he be the humblest in
dividual or the most powerful million
aire, shall stand before the law the
absolute peer of every other man with
in the boundaries of the state. There
will be no prejudice because of pow
erty, no discrimination because of
wealth, no favoritism, no catering to
aIa he afnI 3afD &c.
No man shall ever be able to say
Theodore A. Bell ever gave him any
other than a fair, square. deal.
"And l want to tell you, gentlemen,
that when I am elected governor, as
I feel that I shall be, I shall place
at the service ofpth people of this
state. 1 shall devote all of my time
and energies to combat this greedy,
ghoulish monster known as special
privilege. That is the tyrant the peo-
pie must destroy-special privilege.
And to get at this tyrant, to destroy
this special privilege, we must begin
at the very heart of the present sys-
TEN. We must do more than my oppo-
nent has promised. We must not only
kick William F. Herrin out of politics,
but we must destroy the Herrin
system
MUST BREAK SYSTEM
'"That system will survive a thou
sand Herrins and thousand Parkers
as fast as we kick them out If we do
not concentrate our battle not against
the man, but against the machine, the
system, the special privilege. This
pernicious system-fostered by the ma
chine-which I Rave been fighting for
sixteen years, has its roots, branches
and ramifications in every department
of our city, state and county govern
no ylOI I'm
dustrial and commercial organism.
1t reaches out into the prisons, the
asylums, the schools, courts, the legis-
lative and administrative offices. 1t
discriminates against the shipper, the
producer, the consumer, the retailer,
the wholesaler and every other man
who is not part and parcel Of the
special interests.
IT want to see our state institutions
taken out Of politics. IF elected gov
ernor I am going to maintain a BIZ
partisan administration. I am going
to have only the best men in public
Office and 1 am going to select those
men regardless of their political affilia-
TONS l want, and I will have, a clean,
honest, progressive and constructive
administration. 1t will be my am
bition to bring more sunshine and hap
piness and the joy of living into the
hearts Of the people.
SCORES INsURGENT ATTITUDE
''The leaders of the insurgent move
ment in California assume the atti-
tude that unless man allies himself
with their particular movement he I'M
fits himself to serve the cause of clean
government Against this bigoted at
titude I have protested, not only in
the name of the Democrats of Califor-
mia, but in the name Of thousands of
Republicans who, while calling them
selves insurgents, are yet honest, pa
triotic citizens, staunch supporters of
honest, clean government.
"When their standard bearer has read
out of the party the president of the
United States as he did frequently in
speeches before the campaign, and
goes on ostracizing man after man,
when some Of these men who have
been euffed and insulted and vilifed-
for no man in California has so rich
a vocabulary of abuse as my Repub-
lican opponent-because these men will
not crawl before him and lick the
hand that has dashed them, now I'm
TO be read out of the Democratic party
as a traitor, and, suppose, banished
from my native state.
"They say / lost my voice in Sisld-
YOU, but want to tell you that I have
not lost my head. Gen. Grant had q
saving, Lose your head, lose your
cause When I Gee the abuse they