The San Francisco call., 1910-07-28
DENUNCIATION
Of ST.. MACHINE
LOUDLYCHEERED
WOrkingmen Greet Candidates
Attacks on Boss Herrin With
Enthusiastic Applause
Declares Future Lies With In
T. sargents and Asserts ROOse-
welt Is in the Fight

More than 1000 persons filled the
seats and nearly all the available stand
ing room Of the Star theater in Mission
street near Twenty-third last night TO
listen to the campaign speech of Hiram
". Johnson. Roosevelt candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
governor.
The keynote of the speech was the
elimination OF William T. Herrin and
the Southern Pacific company from po-
htical power in the state. The audience,
which was composed mostly Of work
ingmen and a small sprinkling OF
women was with the speaker and every
sarcastic allusion 10 the Southern Pa
. cifc company or Herrin was received
with enthusiastic cheering.
In the audience last night occupying
an aisle seat in the middle Of the the
ater was Grove /. Johnson, father of
the leagues candidate. Johnson senior
has been known as one Of the strongest
representatives. Of the machine at the
Sacramento legislature That there has
been anything but friendship between
father and son has often been stated,
but Grove Johnson exclaimed last night,
- when asked TO explain his presence,
=. was anxious TO hear him (Hiram)
speak. and so I brought her"
Johnson opened his speech with q
statement Of his position after a few
Introductory remarks by the chairman
Of the evening. Win J. French, editor
of the Labor Clarion. He said that he
stood for the same issues now that he
had stood for at the beginning of the
campaign five months go.
Iu this connection. the nominee. in
part. said:
The one issue in this campaign is,
shall the people OF the state Of Cali
fornia take back TO themselves the
government or shall that government
remain the chattel Of William F. Her
rim and the Southern Pacific company"
w hat we want in this compaign is
- 10 make the state freer politically-not
-. the election OF this man because he is
= good fellow, nor of that man because
he represents the machine.
Though ] would not go 16 feet to
ask any man TO vote for me personally,
j would undertake any labor for this
state Of mine. This state does not be-
Ion gto William T. Herrin nor the
Southern Pacific company and when I
asn elected on the 18th of August ! am
going TO kick out from the state gov
ernment William +. Herrin and the
Southern Pacific company
The speaker turned his attention TO
the great Improvements made in the
manner Of conducting primary cleo
riOns and the opportunities for the
people under IL. Referring to this, he
said:
Under the old convention system
we never had the opportunity TO do
anything that was desired to be done
by the people of the land. This year
we have changed the system: we are
ss-~,s Il e.
select the Candidate We want and to
make that candidate do as we want
after he is elected.
NO Wit is different from what it was
under the old convention system; we
can no longer blame a boss or railroad
compsny-we select our own candi-
date.
Johnson working around again to his
issue Of the campaign, the attack on
the Southern Pacific company's infu-
ence in politics. said:
This great corporation has operated,
managed and conducted our state gov
ernment; the state has been conducted
a. if it were a dependency or appendage
Of the Southern Pacific company
: some OF you people may think the
capital Of the state Of California is
located in Sacramento, as the geogra-
phies say. but you're wrong-its in
the Offices Of the Southern Pacific COM
pany.'
Johnson next turned his batteries on
the statement that even though the
government is bad times will be good.
:. You businessmen and you working
men Of san Francisco. when viii you
learn that good business goes hand in
hand with good government he asked.
1.-The statement that vice and bad gov
ernment make good times IS simply
crazy. That fallacy was exploded a
hundred years ago
The following remarks in part, were
in reference 10 the attitude Of the regu-
lars toward the insurgents:
i want YOU to understand that ]
know whereof 7 speak when I say that
Theodore Roosevelt is with US in this
fght-the state central committee read
Theodore Roosevelt out of the republi-
can party.
we are the republicans in the state
or California: we are making fight
for freedom. the same as did Abraham
Lincoln and the same as Theodore
Roosevelt is making. Let me tell you
workingnen, that your future lies with
insurgents and insurgency in the re-
publican party.
Are you going TO march forward
like good soldiers, or are you going to
wait until . locomotive butts you along
of the track?
Now lNi1oN 4iA9 tOi4tItle QeCidTa-
\ iDn-I am going TO kick out of this
government ". +. Herrin and the
Southern Pacific company
At the close of his address Johnson
was vigorously cheered and his ad-
nairers pressed forward to shake his
hand and encourage him.
Among the vice presidents We're T.
Nowlfn Fred @. Sanborn. Frank Brown,
G. X Orton. Kenneth Mcleod. L. CaId-
well II T Smith. c. r. Derrick Charles
N-ohlander, John ". Sweeney, Augustus
.Bavreuther. J. B. Sayers. NJ. c. Clinton,
.Fohn H. McCallum, A. d. Fretz, DR.. Ro-
.1.na n Hartley md Tim Sullivan