Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-29
BELL BY $4,000
JONES PREDICTS
Remarkable Shift in Sentiment Is
Shown by Tour of Eight
Counties
AWAKE TO MACHINE MENACE
Democratic Campaigner Says
Business Men Will Shake
Off S. P. Grip
AWAKE TO MACHINE MENACE

Following a two weeks campaign
| through eight counties, Madison b.
Jones states that there is no doubt in
! his mind that Theodore Bell will be
| the next governor of California. Jones
says there has been a marked change
in the minds of the people of central
and northern California. a change in
favor of Bell and Spellacy. On his re-
turn from his campaigning tour Fri
| day afternoon, Jones said, regarding
his trip:
For the past two weeks have cam
| paigned for Mr.. Bell and the Demo-
cratic ticket in eight counties of CEN
trail and northern California, including
| the city and county of San Francisco,
speaking in only one county more than
one time, and each time, with the ex-
| ception of three, in the county seat.
| The counties in the order in which L
spoke are San Bernito, Santa Clara,
Alameda, Nevada, Fresno, city and
county of San Francisco, Marin and
Monterey speaking last night at sa-
| linas, the county seat of Monterey
county. 1 have never known such a
change in public sentiment as has TAX
en- place within the last two weeks
from Hiram w. johnson to Theodore
A. Bell. This wave of sentiment in
favor Of Mr.. Bell is so pronounced In
all the sections where l have been
lndl IL Is atmospheric ttS well .eto upOh
the lips of men of all classes.
SAYS FIGHT Is WON
"Mr. Bell has his fight for the gov
ernorship unqueStionably won, and vic
tory is the result, primarily, of three
direct and many indirect causes. In
the first place, the people of California
recognize and are honorable enough to
admit that Theodore A. Bell is the pio-
neer advocate in the state of Califor-
MIA for the rights of the people as
against the Southern Pacific railroad
and it's allied interests.
"They recall with vivid memories the
magnificent and courageous fight made
by Mr.. Bell against VIM. F. Herrin
end the Southern Pacific political ma
chine in his candidacy for the COVER
norship four years ago. They recall
the fact that while Mr.. Bell was CIV
ing his strength of body and vigor of
mind to the cause of the people -FOUR
years ago from the oregon line to the
Mexican line and from the Nevada
line to the shore of the Pacific Hiram
w. Johnson was as silent as the tomb;
that Theodore A. Bell is the one man
of all men within our great state who,
four years ago, through his strong
personality and by one truth after an
other driven home to the hearts of the
people, aroused their conscience to
determination to sooner or later break
the shackles of corporate thralldom
that had so long bound the people of
this great commonwealth; that 1t is
but justice and right that the crown
for so valuable services shall be placed
upon the head of him who has rightly
earned 1t, namely, Theodore A. Bell.
The records may be examined as to
the whereabouts of Hiram w. Johnson
in that memorable fight for the people
four years ago, and nowhere can 1t
be found from the city of San Fran
cisco to the smallest hamlet within the
confines of California where Hiram w.
johnson opened his mouth or let fall
from his pen one single sentence in
aid of the cause of the people, then
being waged by the peoples standard
bearer. ,1. ,,,-,rs
"This wave of sentiment in Mr.. Bells
favor Is due in the second place TO the
false insinuations and declarations
of Mr.. Johnson that Mr.. Bell, in order
to obtain votes and the goVernorshlp
of California, has yielded the rights
of the people to the corrupt influences
of the Southern Pacific and other
special interests. No man knows bet
ter than Hiram w. Johnson that the
record of Mr. Bell as public man
for the last sixteen years will not IN
the slightest degree bear out the state
ments and insinuations that ne has
made. No more positive refutation OF
such false claim could be publicly
made than the fact that on the night
of the second day of November at
Dreamland rink in San Francisco DIR.
Edward Robson Taylor, the anU-gfatt
mayor of San Francisco, will preside
at a meeting in honor of Mr.. Bell,
which meeting is expected by the peo-
ple of San Francisco to far eclipse any
ctra finn hitherto
hereafter to be held in this campaign.
and again, this growing sentiment
for Mr.. Bell is largely due to the tact
that Mr.. Bell offers to the people OF
California, if elected governor,
statesmanlike and constructive policy
for the next four years. In the first
place he pledges to the people, with
an earnestness and sincerity charac-
teristic of his whole life, that he Will
at once and forever eliminate William
r Herrin and the Southern Paclhc
political machine and all other &llled
special interests from the politics ana
government of the state, thus assuring
a clean government for the people
and a complete restoration of the gov
eminent to the people, where IT be-
longs, and he also pledges to the peo-
ple an economical administration in
behalf of the taxpayers of the state,
and oVerhauling all boards ana COM
missions and other avenues of eX-
penditure through which the peoples
money Ms paid out and he further
more pledges to give to the people
progressive administration, inviting
wealth to California in order that the
Industries and resources of the state
may be multiplied and developed with
a. view to aiding in the best way pos
sible the laboring people of the state,
but in this invitation to wealth and
to men of wealth he will lay down the
positive injunction that it is the bust
ness of corporations and of all men
to obey the law and they must obey
the law.
APPEALS TO BUSINESS MEN
"This constructive policy of Mr.. Bell
is appealing to the business men of
the state, and especially to the bank
ers. investors manufacturers and la
boring men, Mr.. Johnson has failed
to offer to the people any constructive
policy, whatever, If elected governor.
"To the citrus fruit growers of Cali
fornia desire to state that I 10 not
believe they will on November for
get Theodore A. Bell and the services
he rendered them while a congress- !
man from the Second congressional |
district in the Fifty eighth congress, |
when he alone of the eight California