Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-08
SPELLACY CLAIMS
BELL AVALANCHE
Running Mate of JefferSonian
Leader Returns from Tour
of Bay Counties
G. O. P.'S CHEER DEMOCRAT
Candidate Says JohnSon'S Sup
port Rests Wholly in Insur-
gent Republican Wing
G. 0. P.'S CHEER DEMOCRAT

Timothy Spellacy, Democratic nomi-
nee for lieutenant governor, returned
to Los Angeles yesterday from a tour
with Theodore Bell of the San Fran
cisco bay counties. Mr.. Spellacy was
smiling radiantly when he stepped
from the train, %here he was met by
q delegation of prominent Democrats,
and his first utterance was:
Its going to be an avalanche. Bell
will be elected by one of the heaviest
pluralities ever given to candidate
for governor in this state"
Mr.. Spellacy was driven in an auto
mobile to his offices, where more than
a weeks accumulation Of mail and
almost hundred persons were await
ing him. He had practically no time
to discuss politics during the after
noon. and was so rushed in disposing
of the business that had piled up dur
ing his absence that his suite Of Of
fices looked like the Chicago board OF
trade during on onslaught of the
bears"
Later In the afternoon Mr.. spellacy
said:
"Mr. Bell has waged one of the
greatest and most remarkable cam
paigns ever recorded in California. 1
was right by his side throughout the
tour of the bay counties, and 1 want
to tell you we were given the grandest
and most enthusiastic receptions ever
received by any candidate. Why, II
Mr. Bell had been the president of the
United States. he could not have re-
ceiyed more astonishing ovations
The people went wild about him every
place we visited. Thousands of Re-
publicans cheered themselves hoarse,
even IN Marin and Alameda counties,
where we hardly expected it. although
we had been told that these insurgent
strongholds were almost equally diV1d-
ed for Bell and Johnson.
EXPECTS HEAVY BELL VOTE
"Frank E. Herring, the Indiana
scholar, orator, college professor and
fraternal leader, whom Mr.. Johnson
made the grave mistake of denouncing
as the imported scoundel fom In
DIANA has so effectually exposed Mr..
Johnsons record In connection with
the Dalzell Brown case, and the San
Francisco graft cases, that San Fran
cisco, where the thousands of deposit
tors of the looted bank live, undoubted-
ly will give Mr.. Bell the largest vote
it has ever given to a gubernatorial
nominee. He will carry San Francisco
by a plurality which will really be so
large I am reluctant about estimating
1t for fear 1 will be considered overly
enthusiastic. MT. LetS SOiiO AASO
every detail of those scandals, and the
fact that neither Mr.. Johnson nor his
vituperative defenders have been able
to reply to his charges, or even to Of
fer a plausible explanation of MT
Johnson's actions in connection with
the bank wreckers trial. has turned
y thousands of votes to the DeInocratic
; standard bearer.
1--WE are going TO carry forty-hve
and possibly forty-six counties with
out any question, 1t seems to me, ana
we do not even concede to Mr.. john
son the remaining thirteen counties,
some of which are very much in doubt,
although the odds seem slightly to be
in favor of our opponents. l would
not be in the least surprised If San
Bernardino county rolled up a COM
Portable plurality for Mr.. Bell, which
will leave the johnson men only twelve
counties, some of which are as doubt
full as San Bernardino county"
Mr.. Spellacy stated that all of the
meetings held by Mr.. johnson in the
northern cities had been greatly ex-
aggerated by the newspaper reports.
intended to be beneficial to him, and
that Mr. Bells meetings had greatly
eclipsed any of those held by Mr.
Johnson.
TOWNS RECEIVE BELL
at have never witnessed such re-
marKaDl0- ueHlOISIIdliOIS as lHOSe
which greeted us in the northern
counties" he said. ''It was simply re-
markable. The entire population of
some of the towns seemed to turn
out en- masse to receive us. l am a
little out of touch with the situation
in Southern California, but feel con-
fldent that we will come to the Te-
hachapi with such a tremendous ma
jority that the Southern California
vote, even If it goes heavily for Mr..
Johnson, which 1 am assured 1t will
not, cannot possibly offset the north
ern plurality.
1.-The regular Republican party of
California is solidly supporting the
Democratic ticket, only the insurgent
wing of the Republican party is sup
porting Hiram johnson. Even the in
surgent wing is divided into factions
which in nearly every county of the
state are boiling their own ticket"