The San Francisco call., 1910-10-01
GREAT THRONG
in RAISIN CITY
HEARS NOMINEE
Candidate Tells Cheering Crowd
That Victory in November
Is Assured
TriumphaI March Through State
of the g. O.. P. Standard
Bearer Continues
By w. RUSSELL COLE
Special Dispatch 10 The Call

FRESNO, Sept 30.--"I feel tonight
that I am in the house of my friends"
declared Hiram w. Johnson in opening
his address here tonight IN the Bar
ton opera house after an audience of
1000 persons had ouieted down from a
demonstration which continued for a
full minute after the curtain rose on
stage occupied by 200 vice presidents,
with the republican standard bearer
seated in their midst AS he began
speaking the cheers broke out again,
and when he continued 1t was with
words of deepest appreciation for the
ovation given him and for the manifest
spirit of loyalty TO the cause for which
he stands
LINE rs DRAWN
'on August II I sat in my Office in
San Francisco and realized the full
force of the solemn obligation that had
been laid upon me by the people of
this state" he said. IT come back to
you tonight that you may know that
by the grace of God, and with your
help, I'll perform that obligation to the
state Of California. The line was
this state opened six months ago, and
there shall be neither vacillation, hesi-
tation, concession nor compromise upon
the issue then laid down.
When tell you that beginning with
the first day of next January the gov
ernment of. this state is TO be just as
free of domination by William F. Her
rim and the Southern Pacific railroad
as the republican party is today
speak with all assurance of republican
victory. I can assure you after a jour
ney that has taken me from the north
ernmost county of this state to the
platform upon which I now stand that
there is no more doubt about the sue
cess OF this campaign than there was
about the success of the primary cam
paign when 1 appeared here before you
prnor to thep rimary election.
The only question to be determined
now is whether the majority to be ac-
corded the republican ticket in Eovern-
Der be a half thousand or a whole hun
dred thousand"
WINS DEMOCRATIC COUNTIES
Johnson was neither boasting nor
giving away to a spirit of overconfi-
dence when he made that declaration
His journey Of the last few days
through counties which are normally
strongly democratic has been a most
wonderful eye opening, and / know
that he is firmly convinced now that it
is not a question OF victory that is to
be solved in November, but a question
of the size of the republican majority.
Everywhere he has Travelled Johnson
has been received with the most spon-
taneous enthusiasm. Not a. day had
passed and not a town has been visited
that seemed democrat that some dozens
Of democrats have not come forward
with volunteered pledges of support
Taking the strongly democratic coun-
ties which he has visited as an indica-
tion, 1t is a conservative belief that for
every republican who bows to the COM
mand Of the interests and turns against
Johnson there will be two or three
democrats to cast their votes for him.
Despite the rumors of great defections
and growing opposition that are so
easy to circulate the fact remains that
in the counties which Johnson has Wis
tied the republican party is in more
perfect harmony, and accord and in
more solid alignment behind the head
DAY OF WELCOMES
This has been another day of en-
thusiastic welcomes, OF big meetings
and of convincing incidents. Modesto
gave johnson the greatest rally of the
campaign last night, yet the little town
of Ceres, just four miles south of
Modesto. turned out 500 persons at
$3.50 o'clock this morning and filled to
overfowing the largest hall in the
place. The schools were dismissed and
the school children, waving flags
marched TO meet his automobile as it
entered the town The high schoolwas.
there, too, and under the direction of
the yell leader, r. e. Goodsell, para