Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-06
CROWDS CHEER AS
JOHNSON SCORES
CORRUPT MACHINE
Simpson Auditorium Crowded to
Hear the Lh1CoIn-RooSeveIt
League Addresses
w. D. STEPHENS is SPEAKER
Enthusiastic Reception Is Given
Candidate Who Is Fight
ing the S. P. Bosses
BY t. SHELLEY SUTTON

BY Il. SHELLEY SUIION
Before an audience which crowded
Simpson auditorium to it's doors, while
scores of eager listeners stood back in
the aisles and foyers, Hiram w. John
son, Lincoln Roosevelt league candi-
date for governor, last night delivered
one of the most fearless and scathing
denuneiations of the Southern Pacific
political machine ever heard in Cali
fornia.
1t was a remarkable and representa-
tive audience which turned out to hear
the addresses OF the various Lincoln
Roosevelt candidates and to greet for
the last time before the primary cleo
tion the eloquent exponent and stand
ard bearer Of the states Republican
"insurgery."
The audience was made up of many
of the most prominent professional and
business men, artisans and laborers;
yet they were together on n common
ground, joining unanimously at times
in the applause and demonstrations of
approval, many persons standing in
their seats and waving their hats and
handkerchiefs as point after point the
arch-opponent of the -Herrin
combine numerically exposed the cor
ruption of the machine, denounced its
dupes and reviewed the shameful his
tory of its treachery and trickery in
California.
REPRESENTATIVE AUDIENCE -
Many of those present were old men
men who have for thirty years or more
seen the political and administrative
affairs of the state poisoned and dis
graced by the Doodle and treachery of
its Southern Pacific bosses; men who
have seen its judicial, administrative
and legislative officials bought and sold,
bartered and bulldozed by the corrupt
and INSCRIPTIONS tools of the railroad
octopus, which has fastened its ten
tacles on practically every department
of our state and county government;
men who have grown old waiting for
the great political revolution, the tidal
wave of public Indignation, which al
last has come upon us.
In this audience also were many vet
Grams from the soldiers home. and hun
dreds of others representing the young
er element, the newer generations
young and middle-aged men, assembled
from the various walks of life; some
doctore, some lawyers, others bankers,
druggists, merchants; many day labor
ers.
But distinctions were forgotten.
Scarcely ever in the history of Los An
eeles has an audience indulged in such
a tremendous ovation as that which
was given to Hiram Johnson in Simp-
son auditorium last evening. The
very mention of his name, before he
arose to speak, elected deafening and
prolonged applause which shook the
immense auditorium and could be
heard for blocks.
GREAT DEMONSTRATION
Mr.. johnson was introduced by Mar
shall Stimson but it was apparent that
an introduction was not necessary, for
the moment Mr.. Johnson stepped out
ba T1nfha fhFnner nnita6 In a
demonstration almost unparalleled in
Los Angeles.
I'VE are not an insurgent faction of
Republicanism," said Mr. Johnson, 1--WE
are the Republican party of California
81 am going to be the next governor
of this state. 1 make the assertion
without wishing to appear too optlmis-
tic or egotistical, and because l know
the political conditions prevailing i'll
California. I have confidence in the
honesty and sincerity of the people of
our Golden state, and know that all
over California they are just as able
to act quickly and fairly on a great
moral issue, such as now confronts
them, as you are here in Los Angeles,
where the principles of good govern
fment have been established, and the
people have stood up in their might and
achieved a political triumph that has
spread the name and fame of Los An
EeleS throughout TIE iitillOli'
"All over the state they are just as
ready to act as you We're here in Los
Angeles when the time came; and they
intend to act. They will act. They
will overthrow this damnable Southern
Pacific machine as surely and as eff
fectively as you of Los Angeles routed
the corrupt political leeches and Of
ficeholders year ago.
GOVERNOR OF WHOLE STATE
1.-THE people are going to make me
governor, and 1 want to pledge myself
tonight in my last speech to you before
the primaries that when 1 am elected
governor of California i am going to
kick out w. f.. Herrin, Walter Parker
and the Southern Pacific political
crooks who have been for so many
years juggling with our courts and leg
islatures. And when L am elected gov
ernor of California l am not going to
be the governor of Southern California
nor the governor of Northern Cali
fornia, but l am going to de the gov
ernor of all the people of all the state
of California.
Geographical differences will not
affect me when 1 become your gov
ernor, and they will not affect the
voters of California in the pending
election, for our cause is too vital, bur
battle too great, our issue too large
to permit of petty determinations ind
the interest of localities; our issue is
too vital and our cause too great TO
allow it to be befogged by the ambi-
tions or the disputes or differences .of
al community or of any candidate or
sd of candidates or politicians.
We are out to defeat the Southern
p; ifc; to wrest our state and county
governments from the domination of
q set of corporation grafters and
bribers to redeem the honor and dig
nifty of California; to save our state |
and its people from the corruption and |
political degradation of a coterie of
railroad bosses who have controlled, |
managed, dictated and disgraced the |
commercial, judicial, administrative, |
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