The San Francisco call., 1910-07-30
BULLY FIGHT SAYS
HIRAM JOHNSON
Lincoln-ROoseveIt League Cam
didate Talks to Big Crowd
in Berkeley
Especial Daeotch 10 The Call

! Especial Dppotch 10 The Call
BERKELEY, July 2s.-Hiram John
son. Lincoln Roosevelt league candidate
! for governor, told residents of North
Oakland and South Berkeley, who filed
Lincoln hall in Alcatraz avenue to over
! flowing tonight, that he was going to
be the next governor of the state He
declared that he would come up from
the Tehachapi with 5000 plurality over
all other candidates for the highest
Office in the state.
1T is a bully fight" he declared,
that we are making to free the state
| and il is no sham battle this year In
the words of the former president of
the United States. L repeat, it is bully
fight
johnson said that while one of his
opponents was declaring for the decla-
ration Of independence and another for
good roads. he believed that the release
Of the people from the political DOM
| ination Of the Southern Pacific political
bureau, with William F. Herrin at it's
head, the only issue of the battle. He
said:
shall the people of this state take
back the reins of power which they
have relinquished for the last 25 years,
or shall they submit to the rule of the
Southern Pacific machine and be guided
by the footing of a locomotive whistle?
THE freedom of the people is the
only issue, and L have coaxed and
pleaded on highways and byways with
my opponents to come out for the free
dom of California, to no purpose.
"You couldn't shoot enough spines
in them with gatling gun to make
them mention the names OF the South
ern Pacific railroad and William +.
Herrin.
This campaign has no time for the
improvement OF the roads or discussing
whether the duty on prunes should be
lowered, while the freedom of the peo-
pie OF the state is trampled on. When
the grip of the Southern Pacific bureau
is released, then viii be time enough
for the people to improve their roads
and make all other betterments.
ours is a campaign of equality. 1t
is a campaign for the election of the
United States senator by popular vote.
for an impartial judiciary. Every man.
rich or poor. in power or not. shall
stand before the law as equal in every
particular"
This is the first opportunity under
the new primary law TO accomplish
something in the way of political re-
FORM he declared. Every man who
is familiar with conditions has said
that a successful fight must be made
at this time to insure the freedom of
the people We have got to win, and
we will win, no matter how hard the
fight or how great the effort
You must understand that it is not
the intention of our campaign to drive
the Southern Pacific company out of
business nor do we intend to fight all
corporations. This campaign is directed
against the lawless interests, the cor
porations which have been successful
in evading the law and gaining by their
dishonesty.
The honest corporations viii be con-
served and protected. The Southern
Pacific machine will be on an equal
footing If it conducts its business in
a legitimate manner and keeps its dirty
fingers out of politics. If it doesn't.
then it viii be kicked out of the state"
Johnson also urged that the voters of
Berkeley stand behind c. c. Young for
assepblyman from the fifty-second dis
trict.