The San Francisco call., 1910-11-04

obtained he said
Today California is seeing the enact
ment of most extraordinary political
drama. 1t is a drama that is not un-
familiar to the American people nor
unknown in our sister states In many
states already the varied scenes OF this
political drama have closed, and in
In many places we have seen already
each of the phases that have charac-
terized this political drama with us.
California is at bay in the last ditch.
making its death struggle. just as 1t
made It In washington In the past past.
when Stned the .n great nae Gf
is NATIONWIDE STRUGGLE
Just as we have observed in the
city of Denver, one puny little man,
Ben Lindsey, finally achieve his
of wisconsin we have seen the pioneer
OF the peoples rights victorious in a
fight just like the one being waged In
hS CITY Todag IN New ,b 4ifanic fqaR che
the world figure Of the great Amer
can, is making our fight just as we
are making IT in California today. And
when the polls shall close in New
York next Tuesday night ] hope, !
pray, devoutly do I wish it, that 1t
may see the same triumph there
going to witness next Tuesday in the
state of California. (Cheers)
BEAST IS AT BAY
Today the beast is at bay. Today
it is in It's last struggle in California
and in San Francisco. (Cheers.) To-
hopes from the marauding of that beast
of special privileges to obtain spoil or
to obtain place, that beast, as ever,
has turned polecat, and today in this
city and all over the state is belching
forth its billingsgate to nominate the
very man who tells you that he is
crai,. 10 NJ Of f14o -fofA hot xr6r
beast and that very special interest.
Today and tonight come to you after
two weeks of campaigning south of this
city and say to you, just exactly as the
chairman OF the state central commit
tee has said, there is no need for us to
be otherwise than of good cheer in this
campaign.
STATE KNOWS ISSUE
You need not fear that that which is
occurring in San Francisco is having
it's effect either here or in any other
part of the state; for whatever Abra-
ham Ruef and Patrick Calhoun and
city of San Francisco they can not yet
elect a governor of California. (Cheers.)
II is most astonishing spectacle that
rs nd Of ndeed
been introduced into California by an
imported. hired prevaricator. from In
diana. In the state OF California we
the remarkable spectacle of Abraham
Ruef the representatives of Patrick
Calhoun. the representative of William
+. Herrin and the representatives OF
William Randolph Hearst sitting down
with a democratic candidate for gov
ernor and an imported man from In
diana: and when we see these distin-
glished patriots are sitting together we
find them manufacturing out of whole
cloth every conceivable tnnuendo, every
conceivable slander. every conceivable
libel every single thing that cunning
mendacity can invent.
DARE NOT SPEAK TRUTH
And when they have manufactured
stuff of this character. instead of a
direct accusation against any man they
translate them into a series of so called
questions that are put In the mouth OF
the accomplice and co-conspirator. while
the rest of them scurry to cover. And
then the accomplice, the man brought
here by the democratic candidate for
governor, puts his questions containin g
the innuendos. The distinguished repre-
forth and demand that answers be made
to all the queries that have been so
manufactured in the conclave of these
fellow spirits. And then the lnd1anan.
his series of questions, and Mr.. Hearst.
the patriot, and the Evening Post, the
representative Of Patrick calhon1n' fs;1n pub, pub
the innuendo contained therein.
NO APOLOGIES NEEDED
want YOU to know that I have no
occasion on the face of the earth for
any apology for any cases that have
ever had in the state of California.
(Cheers.) If any man wants to vote
against me because had a case of a
particular character that is his right.
He may do So make no complaint
whatever It he votes against me be-
cause of lie regarding that case then
/ do complain. and / have a right to
complain. And now at the first oppor-
tunity in this city that the opportunity
has been presented to me ] am going to
step aside from the beaten path of
what I have hitherto said for just a
moment to talk to you about the case
of the people against J. Dalzell Brown.
In 1906 / became the employe, / was
employed legitimately, in the so called
graft prosecution. | continued in that
employment until the election of the
Langdon campaign in 1907. And I call
to witness the 1000 people who, at the
opening of that campaign, crowded into
the Mission rink when we began the
fight to elect Langdon. AT that time
openly and publicly to those 1000 peo-.
pie discharged myself from the graft
prosecution, telling them that I was
going to participate in a political cam
paign and that did not desire in that
campaign, or at all. to he hanl2ered by
any employment that might be consid-,
cred private en1ploymsnt relating to
that particular matter That was
about the first day of October. 907. No
Browne case was then ever contem-
plated or thought of. About the mid