Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-29


$3.50 yesterday morning with members
of the Bell party. In the first ma
chine was Timothy Spellacy, candl-
date for lieutenant governor on the
Democratic ticket. with Joseph ST.
mons and newspaper correspondents.
He led the way as pathfinder, ana at
each place spoke until the machlne
bearing Lorin A. Handley Democratic
candidate for congress, and Theodore
Bell arrived. Mr.. SpelIacy introduced
Mr.. Handley, who in turn introduced
Mr.. Bell. Among the members of the
party were: Secretary of the state
Committee Murray, Martin BetkouSkl,
Jiseph Simons, David Evans, Rich
mond Plant, Hiram Blanchard, can
didate for clerk of the supreme court.
CROWDS GATHER AT MONROVIA
At Monrovia the machines stopped
at Orange and Myrtle avenues A
large crowd soon gathered and enthu-
siastically received Mr.. Bell when he
was introduced by Mr.. Handley. Mr.
Handley's speech was short, for he
expects to go over the same ground
next week in the interests of his own
candidacy for congress. But while 1t
was short, he sounded a popular
chord, for he told them he stood for a
non-partisan tariff commission to re-
wise the tariff schedule by schedule
and take the tariff out of politics al
together.
Bell was enthusiastically greeted,
and said
"I claim for myself the distinction
of being the first candidate for gov
ernor to openly defy the political mas
tiers Of this state. While member OF
congress l waged battle against the
railroad politicians OF this state, and
you people who ship oranges and lem
ons have received the benefit of that
fight. 1 served you faithfully in con-
gress, and 1 believe 1 have the right
to come before you on my record ana
ask you to vote for me for governor.
"I am the enemy, and 1 always shall
be, of this curse called special priv
ilege. You cannot give Snecial faVors
with one hand without Nfobbing the
people with the other.
"Herrin stands for special privilege.
I want to drive Herrin out of the
politics of this state, and 1 have been
trying to do it for sixteen years. But
he is only a figure in the system of
special privilege. and it is the system
1 want to wipe out or our fair state.
[ well remember the time when we
said much the same things of Coils z.
Huntington that we now say of Her
rim Then Coils P. Huntington died,
but special privilege went on. e. h.
Hartman seemed the embodiment of
special privilege. But Hartman died
and the system has continued. If
Herrin was to pass away tonight there
would be another Herrin in his place
tomorrow morning.
DOCTRINE OF EQUAL RIGHTS
"The hatred of special privilege
amounts, with me, almost to a re-
ligious conviction. I believe in the
doctrine of equal rights. 1 will give
you what you need; a good, clean,
honest administration. I have been
fighting for this ever since have been
in political life.
"I do not believe you are going back
on the man who fought the fight, but
want to call your attention to the
fact that / am still waging the only
fight that is being made against the
Southern Pacific machine, and 1 want
to call your attention to the fact that
Hiram w. Johnson in every speech
that he has made has said merely that
he would, if elected, kick William r.
Herrin out of politics.; in Southern
California he has added the name of
Walter Parker, but he has never prom
ised you that he would eradicate the
system; it is the system that I am
after. Herrin is but an executive,
Parker is but a tool, Herrin is but a
representative, Parker is but an agent
Herrin is the head of the system and
the Southern Pacific machine is the
system. 1t is this system, this great
statewide machine, which has its ten
tacles and ramifications in every city,
town, village and hamlet in California,
that must be eliminated from out pub
lie and political life. 1t is this system
that have been and still am fighting,
gentlemen! Not the individual who
represents it. But I am going to kick
that individual out just as vigorously
as Mr.. Johnson would; that will be my
first step. If we are to believe john
son, he intends it to be his first and
last step. After / have kicked Herrin
out l am going to show the Southern
Pacific Railroad company that / be-
lieVe in service, depots, tracks, trains
and cars, and at the same time 1 am
going to tell the Southern Pacific po-
litical machine-which is a separate
concern, although managed by the
same executives-that it must keep it's
fingers out Of politics; that it must
withdraw its tentacles from the
schools, courts, legislative and admin
istrative offices of California. We
want an abundance of capital in Cali
fornia to develop the great resources
Of mountain, forest, river, valley, plain
and mesa, and to prepare us for the
great future that must materialize
with the opening of the Panama canal.
The people demand a clean admins
tration, a progressive and conservative
administration.
PURPOSE WILL BE UPBUnDING
ct am not going in to tear down, but
to build up. l will tear down. as Wig
orously as any man every policy that
tends to retard our progress, and L
will devote every atom of my physical,
mental and moral strength to the great
work of furthering and developing my
native state-the state of whose name,
fame and history I am and always
have been proud.
81 want to say to every citrus fruit
producer in Southern California that if
elected the Southern Pacific, the Santa
Fe and every other railroad corpora
ton will have to obey the laws of
California, and I will exert my utmost
energies to endeavor to secure more
reliable and equable rates and to see
to it that the gross determinations OF
the past are obviated. l know the
weakness of our present admhlstra-
ton and I want to tell you now that
I see a hundred ways in which L may
helm to reduce the burden of taxation
If / am elected governor of California
and I will be elected governor, be-
cause am going to roll up 10000 plu-
ralitv north of the Tehachapi, and 1
know that you people Of Southern CAL
ifornia will give me such substan-
tial support November 8 that my cleo
ton will be certainty"
THRONGs CHEER AT GLENDORA
At Glendora rousing cheers were
given for Bell as the next governor Of
the state and at Pomona large crowd