Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-29
RESIDENTS IN CITRUS FRUIT REGION
GIVE ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME TO BELL
Candidate for Govenorsp Delivers Emphatic Message and Wins
Approval of Thousands at Meetings Held in MonOva, Glen
dora, Pomona Covina Puente and at Ell Monte

carried his candidacy through the
orange belt of Los Angeles county
yesterday. Beginning at Monrovia at
10 o'clock in the morning, through
Glendora, Pomona. Covina, Puente, he
ended at Ell Monte at 4:3O in the after
noon. At each place he spoke in the
open, from the automobile that had
carried him, and at each place he was
greeted with cheers and hailed as 1.-THE
next governor of California"
Mr.. Bells audiences were composed
chiefly of citrus fruit growers or those
who are dependent on the industry
for their living, and to them he
pointed out his record in congress,
showing what he had done for the
| orange and lemon growers
I'm 1897 the supreme court decided
that while the interstate commerce
| commission had the right to declare a
rate charged by the railroads eXces-
sive it had no right to fix a rate.
1.-THE commission had declared the
rate of $1.25 a hundred charged you
for shipping your oranges and lemons
was excessive, but 1t had no power
to remedy the evil. Then the people
| began to demand that the law be
amended so the commission would
have a right to fix the rates. Mem
| OTlalS anu peLlLlOnS were SellL " my
| desk in congress, as they were sent to
each one of the other congressman
| from this state, but / was the only
| one who took the floor and led the
battle in congress that resulted in the
amendment. These statements of mine
will be borne out by the congressional
record.
VIGOROUS BATTLE IN CONGRESS
"In my speech in the flfty-eighth
| session of congress I stood alone upon
that floor and denounced the Southern
Pacific rule or ruin policy. 1 de-
nounced the railroad regulations,
compared their rate schedules and
tried to show the people wherein the
Southern Pacific, by its arbitrary and
excessive rates, was discriminating
against certain of the most important
| distributors in California. There are
great many people in California, es-
pecially among you shippers, who will
remember that fight, and I want to
remind you, gentlemen, that four
years ago. when l was candidate Tor
| governor I continued that same bat
tie that began on the floor of con-
gress. I went up and down the length
and breadth of California endeavor-
ing to arouse the public interest with
the hope that this political machine
might eventually be removed from the
DdLH OIL our SldlG 3 pIOBICoS anu uC-
Velopment. At that time Hiram w.
Johnson raised no hand to help me
in my fight; not one of the present
leaders of insurgency came to my res
cue. I was laughed at, ridiculed,
scorned and belittled for the part
took in the great battle of the peo-
pie. 1t was only a little more than
five months ago when these men saw
that must inevitably be elected, that
they stepped forward and suddenly
became the champions of the cause
that I had fought for so many long
and hopeless years"
REDUCTION OF STATE EXPENSES
Non-partisan boards and commits
sions to control the state institutions,
such as prisons, reform schools and
insane asylums was one of the meas
ures Mr.. Bell advocated to reduce the
great expense of the state govern
ment.
Look at the last report of Comp
troller A. D. Nye and you will see
that in the last ten years the biennial
expense of the state has increased
from $4,000 to $14,000,000, while the
population has increased less than so
per cent. I'll tell you why this is
the case. We have been maintaining
vast political machine and that ma
chine has been oiled at the expense
money can be saved by taking the
prisons, the insane asylums and the
reform schools out of politics. 1
pledge you that If the power of ap-
pointment is placed in my hands I
will appoint non-partisan boards and
commissions. I will first name ma
jority of my own party and then look
for the best men in other parties,
/ !
are heaping on me I say, Someone is
getting a mighty good licking and one
they richly Deserve
ASKS COMPARISON OF RECORDS
"When Mr.. Johnson, playing in the
nursery Of clean government, sets his
Judgment up against that of every
body else I ask only that our records
be compared. I have endured the
abuse for four weeks and shall endure
it in good humor to the end. 1 can
stand it for ten days more. I have
confidence in the honest judgment of
the people and I submit to you my
record of works I have performed in
the past and ask you If 1t shall not
stand as a guarantee whether you shall
be betrayed by me II am elected gov
ernor.
"I believe the people of California
would at their peril send this man to
Sacramento to stand there with a club
in his hand and venomous tongue in
his mouth to broWbeat everything that
looks like a railroad.
AZ have used the term fair DEAL
and I have been assailed as lying down
with the corrupt bosses. 1 do say that
it Is important whether the man who
shall be governor stands for these
things, these constructive progressive
policies which mean a greater and bet
ter California, or goes into the gov
ernorship with but one idea, to attack
the railroad.
WHY HE FIGHTS s. p.
ct have fought the railroad, not be-
cause it was the Southern Pacific, not
because it was Herrin, but on the
ground of broad public policy, because
they were exercising special privileges
denied to you and to me. hate this
thing of special privilege, and 1 know
that if the people do not destroy this
monster called special privilege it will
destroy us.
"It shall be my policy, if elected, to
say to the railroads, Submit to the
regulations of our railroad commission
and be satisfied with a fair deal and
we will protect you want more
railroads in the state and want the
railroads now here to extend their
lines. But I insist that they be con-
tent with a fair deal.
Beyond all these things I want to
give the state an administration in
harmony with the spirit of the people
An administration that shall increase
the material comforts and bring hap
piness into the homes of California.
"And now the time is at hand, If
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