The San Francisco call., 1910-10-08
1000 PERSONS
GIVE WELCOME
TO CANDIDATE
Republican Leader Talks to
Hundreds Filling Street at
Open Air Meeting
Special Stand to Accommodate
1000 Is Hastily Erected
by Committee
By w. RUSSELL COLE
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

| SALINAS, Oct Never before in
the city of Salinas has there been such
political gathering as that which to-
night turned out to welcome Hiram
w. Johnson, republican nominee for
governor to Monterey county. John
son spoke In the open air from a stand
in Main street to a gathering which.
at a conservative estimate, numbered
more than 1000 persons. 1t was an
audience which, neither for size nor
enthusiasm, has been surpassed in any
city that the republican leader has
visited since the beginning of his state
tour three weeks ago.
Salinas with its population of less
than 5000, received Johnson with
crowd that would have done credit to
any of the big cities of the state. 1t
was originally intended that Johnson
should speak in the largest hall here,
and the place was decorated and ar
ranged for tonfght's meeting. This
afternoon, however, the local committee
of arrangements reached the conclusion
that the hall could not possibly suffice
to care for the expected throng. John
son was communicated with by tele-
graph and despite the several other
outdoor meetings today, and the diff
Guilty he always encounters in speaking
at night in the open air, consented to
the street meeting.
STAND is ERECTED
A big stand was hastily erected late
this afternoon in front of the Hotel
Abbott, lights were strung and tiers
of seats sufficient to accommodate 1000
persons were arranged in the street
around the flag draped platform. The
preparations were not wasted By the
time the republican standard bearer
stepped upon the platform at o'clock
I, ytr Aa
of the hotel clear to the opposita
building wall and for a quarter of a
block on either side of the stand. Au-
tomobiles were banked about the out
skirts of the crowd, and at time the
honk of their horns added to the cheers
and applause given in tumultous meas
ure by the throng.
Theodore Bell. the democratic nom
inee for governor, appeared recently
in Salinas and held night meeting
here in the hall in which Johnson was
scheduled to appear tonight. An au-
dience not more than one-quarter the
size of that which heard Johnson to-
night was out to listen to Bells
speech.
/ have been told by several who at
tended both meetings, and who spoke
without prejudice, that Bells audience
Just comfortably filed the hall. with
its seating capacity of about 500, and
that none of the standing room was
occupied
CHEERS FOR JOHNSON
Numbers. of course, do not give a
decisive proof of the sentiment exist
ing, but the sentiment was to be found
tonight in the applause and the spon-
tanefty of the cheering with which the
crowd expressed it's full accord with
the principles of progressive republi-
canism concerning which Johnson
alked for nearly 45 minutes 1t was
stirring rally, at the conclusion of
which the lobby of the Hotel Abbott
wasthronged for an hour with hun
dreds anxious to meet and shake hands
with the party leader.
On the platform with Johnson were
men who in the primary campaign were
on the side of his opponents for the
republican nomination. fractional diff
ferences within the republican party
here were buried weeks ago, and to-
night Hiram Johnson pronounced the
last rites over their remains. 1t is
solid front that the republican party
here is presenting and talk of defec-
ton is a myth. Postmaster W. j. Hill.
who introduced Johnson tonight,
summed it up this way:
When the primary fight was on
before August 16 some of us were
for Alden Anderson, some of us
Mere f1sr for Charles nna PtbeI curry ~ others hers
Stanton but the returns on August
II proved that the woods were Just
full of those who were for Hiram
w. Johnson. 1t was a decision that
nobody could question, and now
we are for Hiram w. johnson to
man.
In his speech tonight Johnson again
declared that his democratic opponent
was sidestepping the dominant issue
of the campaign and talking more of
a square deal for the interests" than
for a square deal for the citizenship
of the state and the necessity of elm
mating the interests from the govern
emnt of the state. He asserted his
stand that constructive reforms could
only be founded upon a government
thoroughly cleansed of malign and
corrupting influences, and declared
that the primary issue must be the
kicking out of the government of Cali
fornia of William F. Herrin and the
Southern Pacific railroad.
Rally for johnson
The recently organized Johnson Wal
lace club of the thirty-second assembly
district held an enthusiastic rally in
support of the republican ticket in the
South San Francisco opera house, cor
ner of Fourteenth and Railroad ave-