The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-24
BELL SPEAKS At
SANTA BARBARA
Candidate Says Orientals Should
Not Be Allowed to Own
Land In State
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


SANTA BARBARA, Sept 23.-Through
the oil fields and the fertile fields of
beans and SCAR beets and the orcha rds
of Santa Barbara county Theodore a.
Bell and Timothy Spellacy, democratic
candidates for governor and lieutenant
governor. respectively, journeyed from
one end of the county to the other to-
day, and tonight held a meeting in the
old opera house in this city.
The candidates were taken from
Santa Maria to Lompoc in automobiles
by H. lessee, John Robbins, Joe Nc
Donnell, Ed Bedichek, DIR. w. F. Lucas
and DR.. II. c. Bagby. Nearly every
citizen of circuit was met by the candi-
dates during a brief stop in the oil
town.
An enthusiastic meeting was held in
Lompos at 1 o'clock in front of the
Arthur hotel. The boys band furnishes
the music and o. Hoover. a prominent
democrat of the community. presided.
After speeches by Bell and Spellacy
three cheers were given by the $50 per-
sons present for the democratic can
didate.
ESCORTED TO HOTEL
DR.. H. c. Dimock and w H. Schuyler
then took the party in automobiles and
motored to Surf, where they entrained
T. ". u
chairman of the county central COM
mittee. K. w. NJ. Ardis and County Re-
corder Mark Bradley met the party at
the station and escorted them to the
Potter hotel.
The old opera house was comfort
ably filled when the meeting tonight
was called to order by Doctor Balm
bridge. B. F. Thomas was chairman of
the meeting.
After Spellacy had told the audience
that he believed he would be of great
assistance to Bell at Sacramento in the
event of their election, Bell was pre-
sented and went extensively into the
various issues of the campaign. He
was loudly applauded here, as we'll as
in Lompoc, when he announced him
self as opposed to Asiatic immigration.
Il promise you that if elected COVER
nor | shall use all the power of that
office to check the invasion of our
state by the yellow and brown labor
from Asia" said Bell. Il shall not
only use the influence of California to
have enacted a federal law that will
extend the provisions of the Chinese
exclusion act to cover japanese, Ko-
reans, Hindus and other undesirab BILE
orientals, but ] will recommend the
Legislature the enactment of the state
law that absolutely prohibits any Jap
anese, Chinese Hindu and Koreans
from OWNING VI lcdSlnS an acre Oh
California soil. The state of California
has this power and if / am governor
I shall do my best to see that it rs
emphasized.
WHITE MANS LAND
Il want the land of California re-
served for our children and for white
immigrants. ] want California for the
white man, and l want the people of
California to help me in this fight for
the white man. l want the soil of
California for those who are eligible to
become citizens of the United States,
who will fight for its flag if the ne
cesity arises, who will help to build up
the country and who will not extract
every possible dollar from the soil and
send it all to some foreign land
Bell and party will visit Ventura and
Oxnard tomorrow morning and then
proceed to Los Angeles, where the big
meeting of southern California will be
held tomorrow night.
Democratic Itinerary
With the assistance of the demo
cratic district leaders in the southern
part of the state, the state central
democratic committee has arranged the
itinerary of the Bell-Spellacy campaign
from Riverside north to Vallejo, and
the two candidates We're notified last
night nv wire of the return course ar