The San Francisco call., 1910-09-07
Four Of the
attic
state conven-
ton delegates
|whohavelOng
aided in the
| party coun-
cils-

whether 1 am elected or not 1 am
going to win the fight for more
representative government in Wash
ington, and that is the more i'm
portant thing.
1 have been asked why | am a
democrat. The question can be
answered by a story. 1t has been
said that Scotchman has no sense
of humor. This is all wrong. If
you tell what you think is a funny
story to Scotchman and he does
not laugh, you can make up your
mind that the story is not funny.
And Scotchman can fully appre-
ciate story in. which the point Is
Scotchman was asked what was his
country, and he replied:
am Scotchman, but | can't
help 1t. | am a democrat because
| can't help it.. | was not born a
democrat and 1 take all the more
credit to myself that 1 have
adopted the principles of the demo-
cratic party from conviction and
not because 1 was born in the
party.
GOOD DEMOCRACY
L believe in those democratic
larger interests of the whole peO-
PIE. for honesty and clean admin
istration of the affairs of the ma
ton without special privileges to
favored few. | am for the dem
ocrat who stands for those prin-
ciples, and / am against any dem
ocrat who falls below that plat
form l reserve TO myself at all
time the right to repudiate any
candidate under the name of dem
ocrat when he ceases to be for
the democratic principles as / un-
derstand them.
In the issues of today it is not
a question of democrat and repub-
fc q Of cr0n I off
1zenShip rather than partisanship.
1t is a question whether the men
who are candidates stand for first
class. American citizenship and for
the best interests of the state for
California. We are not going to
change the partisan majorities in
the state, but we are going to do
a work in behalf of better oppor-
tunittes for the whole people and
for more representative govern
ment.
IS DUTY,
feel that l may be pardoned
for saying something about myself
personally, for 1 take il that the
fact that you have asked me 10
speak before you gives me that
right. l have been for a long
time interested in many public and
quaSi-public movements. l have
been from time to time proffered
office and up to the present time
proffers. l now stand for the first
time as candidate for office be-
cause, If | may say so. / regard it
as my duty TO my American citizen
ship, of which | am proud. L am
making the fight because l am i'm
pressed with the belief that 1T is
my duty to get into the fight.
had had many men tell me
that such was my duty, but 1 was
undecided until I ran up against
a certain man, whose name is a
household word in this state and
who is very we'll known to all OF
you here. He said he had heard L
was being talked of for the place,
and he said that as much as he
would like to see me in the plase,
and as much as he thought my
work was needed, he would not like
to see me make the fight because
it was a hopeless fight. Then |
made UP my mind. | then regarded
1t my duty to make the fight.
HOPELESS FIGHT HONORABLE
If good men can not be found to
make a hopeless fight. there never
will be hopeful fight. I do not
know what fate may be, in store
for me, but l hope to make a con-
test worthy of my manhood and of
American citizenship. l hope to
come out of the fight as clean as
/ went in, and hope to make sucho
fight that 1t no longer will be
TO go up against a bad man in the
fourth district.
/ congratulate you upon the at
tendance OF this convention and 7
congratulate you upon the spirit
of harmony that has been foStered
here. 1t is my desire that in this
campaign the candidates of our
faith shall make the fight not for
the democratic party, but for the
people of the state of California.
HAYDEN SPEAKS
At the afternoon session the conven
ion was addressed during another lul
~ Thomas f. Hayden. candidate 70
congress in the fifth district, agains
:. A. Hayes. Hayden said that if tn
american people were insurgent toda
was because of the educational worl
lone by the democratic party. and il
distinguished leaders, among whom h
Bell and Bryan. Whethe
II not either of them ever held offic
gain, each held position in the prog
ess of the country which Office couI
lot add to or honors increase.