Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-13
SPEECH PREVENTS
D|SCORD IN PARTY
Bell Causes Harmony to Prevail
at the Conference of
Democrats
PUSH SCHEME is BEATEN
MenaCing Resolutions Giving the
Gathering False Power Are
Swept Aside
CONTINUED from Pare onel


California is represented and controlled
only by the actions of the state central
committee and its subsidiary bodies.
These men are our leaders; they are
tried and true Democrats, they have
never made serious mistakes, and they
never will, and in our last campaign
they proved to us what a grand ana
effectual fight they are capable of max
ing.
1.-THE machinery of our party is in
their hands. Yet you stand here today
and propose to say to the executive
committee that it shall call another
conference whenever fifty members of
this conference demand that 1t shall be
called.
II tell you, this conference has no
power to enforce it's demands-you have
no right to dictate to our state commit
tee; you have no right to suggest such
a preposterous proposition.
CONFERENCE POwERLEss
"Don't think for one moment that this
conference can enforce its demands; or
that it has the right to demand that
another conference be held when fifty
men shall ask 1t.
II realize, as thoroughly as any man
here. that important issues may arise;
grave and vital problems may con-
front us before the primaries or gem
eral election We may need the best
brains, the best service, the best cour-
age and loyalty which our party af-
fords to meet the emergencies that may
arise, and we should provide for such
contingencies; but the majority must
continue to govern the Democratic
party The true Democracy of Cali
fornia must continue to govern the
party, and the Democratic state central
committee is elected by and is repre-
Af
that majority.
THE Democratic convention at Fres-
no declared to this effect; and, right or
wrong, the Democratic majority must
rule, for that is Democ0cyi that is
one of it's most glorious principles.
at that convention the Democracy
of California selected a state central
committee, and the state central com
mittee selected an executive committee
which I'm turn conducted our last cam
paign. II was a memorable campaign,
marked by many heroic sacrifices, in
tense personal efforts and grand re-
suits. You, as Democrats know what
we achieved, for very often our true
work is to be judged by the reforms
rather than by the offices we win.
CANNOT DOUBT MEN
THE men who compose that COM
mittee are too well known to be criti-
cised or doubted. The California De-
mocracy can trust its campaign to its
keeping"
All this juncture Mr.. Bell requested
that the secretary read the names
Of the L.embers of the executive COM
mttee, which was DONE and as one
after another of the noted war horses
we're called off by the secretary there
was loud cheering.
The fundamental principle of De-
I'll Haa- aasa1
rights to all; special privileges TO
none That is my platform; that is
the platform Of the California state
Democracy.
There may be some men in this
conference who do not like my posi-
ton. There may be a number of San
F'ranciscans here who criticise my at
titude.
San Francisco cannot control our
state Democracy. / have been criti-
elsed in that city, perhaps. and am
aware that | have enemies there who
oppose me because | stand for what
/ believe is right and true and just
for equal rights as against special
privileges. What do | care for this
criticism, when l know that | am
right; that the true Democracy of the
state is back of me, and that l rep
resent the principle and the platform
for which many loyal Democrats have
consecrated their lives and sacrificed
everything. although they have gone
down to defeat?
FOUGHT FOR COWARDS
Let me say to these San Francisco
Democrats that at a time when San
Francisco was palsied with cowardice,
when many of its Democrats and Re-
Dubicans alike were weak with trepi-
lation and the city was overrun with
grafters and their dupes, l was not