Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-25
THOUSANDS CHEER
ADDRESS BY BELL
Candidate for Governor Receives
Remarkable Greeting at
Rally in This City
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some careless housekeepers, and they
have swept the dirt back of the stove
and in the corners where 1t would not
be seen, and the time is coming in the
state of California when we ought to
thoroughly overhaul all the public in
stltutions of this state. You kiow, as
well as I, they have fallen into the
hands of politicians. 1 do not make
sweeping condemnation of all the
men who are in charge of those insti
tutions, but as a general thing they
have become part of the 'spoils' sys-
TEN. They have become the great
profits for which political parties bat
tie on election day.
"Now, two weeks before the last
primary election, before the Democrats
of this state were called upon to nom
mate a governor, announced what my
policy would be toward those institu-
tions-that If I have the appointment
of those public offices and those pub
lie commissions L am going to make
them bipartisan. would not fill them
with members only Of the Democratic
party. l would make them bipartisan.
OFFICIALS MUST BE CLEAN
"The majority of them-three and
one and five and seven, and so on
shall be men of my political faith, but
after that L reserve to myself in the
interest of a good administration of
these public institutions to go out
among the other political parties in
the state of California and secure clean,
big, honest human men to fill those
places of trust, and l will do that lie
you make me governor of this state.
II will give you good public servants
from the office of governor down to the
humblest janitor in the employ of this
state. The golden rule of the Bell
I I'll. .1~I
lars worth of good, clean public serv-
ice for every dollar of taxation the
people OF this state are called upon to
pay
''I want to get my hands on the
school system Of the state of California.
1 want to drive politics out of the
school system of this state. want to
destroy the textbook monopolies In
this state, IL they exist. 1 want to see
our youth of California get proper,
practical and manual training. Oh,
what a delight it is to go to some of
the high schools of California and find
the girls of this state learning to sew,
learning how to cook, learning how to
take care of home In the proper way.
LESSON PRACTICAL
81 want to see the boys of the state
of California given a practical prepara
ton before they leave the schools of
that are ahead of them.
''Why blind ourselves to the truth,
why deceive ourselves? You and 1
know that 95 per cent of the boys
growing up now must when they reach
manhood enter upon the great neces-
sary courses and usual labors of the
world. They cannot all be of the pro-
fessional class. They cannot all be
bankers They cannot all enter COM
mercial life, but 95 per cent of your
| boys growing up will have to undertake
the necessary and hard labor of the
void.
Let us give them their preparation
before leaving school. Let us give
them an education to take care of
themselves, to make them Independent,
! reliant, self-respecting, so that
they may become part of the citizen
ship of this country in a career that
comes from learning in early life the
true dignity and honor Of labor.
II could go on telling about the re-
forms l would like to work in state,
business and in our schools. II l am
elected governor am not going to turn
that work entirely over to the men of
the state. l am going to ask the men
and women of the state of California
to assist me in doing it. Help me in
going into the state prisons of Califor-
mia to improve conditions there.
WANT BETTER PRISON RULES
Condemn the men that violate the
law as much as you want; sentence
him to states prison, but when at last
he is placed behind the bars do not
forget that he is still a human be-
ing, that he possesses a human soul,
that he possesses the spark of divinity
that ought not to be treated as a mere
beast because he occupies a prison of
the state. I am glad that years ago
this state of ours adopted the parole
system. I am glad to see it in force,
because they have released hundreds
of men from the two prisons of ours
who are working hard under the Wig
liant eyes of friends and earning a
reputation for themselves and will in
time be absorbed among the citizens
of the state. Let us go into the
schools. Let us ask for better service,
for better institutions from top to bot
tom; let us sweep them and burnish
them. You taxpayers generously pro-
vide for the maintenance of these in
stitutions. You are entitled to know
that not one dollar that you contrib
ute as taxes shall be wasted or shall
be extravagantly used. You have
right to demand that from them, you
have a right to demand that it be eco
nomically administered. 1 promise you
that kind of service.
"Now, you have nominated with me
on this ticket man of your own com
munity. Well, 1 am awfully glad to
hvae MIN on the ticket with me. We
spoke the other night in San Fran
cisco, in Richmond district. and next
day when 1 took the elevator to my
office q gentleman said to me, Bell, II
you had the smile of Timothy Spellacy
you would be elected governor of Cali
fornia by a hundred thousand major
ity.' I wish that 1 might acquire that
smile, but 1 cannot knock him down
and take it away from him.
BIG MAJORITY EXPECTED
"And as we go over the state in
close contact, why, / am hoping that
as 1 rub elbows with Timothy Spellacy,
day after day, little of the oil will
work off his clothes and get on to mine,
and that at least may get 10000 ma
jority at the hands of the people of the
state of California.
"A friend of mine in San Francisco,
a gentleman I didn't know very well,
but who is a friend Of mine now and a
wealthy man, and owns a large build
ing on Market street. came into my
office the other day in San Francisco
and said to me, Bell, I voted for john
son at the primary, 1 contributed some
thing TO his primary campaign, but l
am going to vote for you on election
day. and a whole lot more of us who
supported Johnson at the primaries in
tend to do So.
II said, How do you explain that?'
He said, L will tell you how; Johnson
stands now at the head of the faction
OF the Republican party, and If we
elect him governor of this state of Cali