The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-14
JOHNSON CLOSES
PRIMARY CAMP Align
LincoIn=Roosevelt League Cam
didate Declares That An
dersoH Deals in Abuse

Closing his campaign on the same
note as that on which he opened it.,
Hiram W. johnson of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, candidate for gov
ernor delivered his final speech in the
primary fight before a big and en-
thusiastic audience in Dreamland rink
last night
Without Boosting, without vain
glory, without pride 1 am able to tell
you 1 am goinng to be the next gov
ernor of California, and when I am /
will kick out of the government of this
state William F. Herrin and the South
ern Pacific railroad" were the words
with which Johnson terminated his
last speech.
There were some 5000 persons in the
hall, including many women, and the
candidate was loudly and repeatedly
cheered. No part of his speech was
better received than that in which he
described himself as an insurgent re-
publican and told what in his concep-
tion insurgency meant. "A year ago
l declared myself an insurgent repub-
lican. Tonight l still am an insurgent
republican, and next year in the city of
Sacramento there will be an insurgent
republican governor"
RYAN PREDICTS VICTORY
Daniel A Ryan was chairman of the
meeting and delivered the only other
speech of the evening. He denounced
Johnsons opponents for the Infamous
and despicable ISLANDERS that have been
scattered broadcast about the candi-
date of the Lincoln-Roosevelt league
and predicted that next Tuesday the
political history of California would be
rewritten by the nomination of John
son.
The name of the candidate when first
mentioned by Ryan was the signal for
an outburst of cheering, which was re-
newed when the chairman introduced
"the next governor of the state of Cali
fornia."
Johnson opened with the declaration
that he was bearing cheerfully and
philosophically the penalty of under
hand and anonymous attack that he
knew when he entered the contest he
would have to bear.
ROAST FOR ANDERSON
Referring to Anderson not by name.
but by the epithet, "a snug little bust
nessman." Johnson paid the machine
candidate his respects in the following
words:
In San Francisco he is making a
issue of good roads that he made in the
north, his issue of stewed prunes that
he made in the San Joaquin valley, and
his issue of lemons that he made in the
southland. He is sending out-and
charge it to him, for / have traced it
to his door-anonymous circulars writ
ten by Abraham Ruef and abusing this
candidate.
II honor an adversary who will stand
criU tal xe
blows. But the lowest man on the
face of the earth, lower even than the
tenderloin voter that this snug little
gentleman is reaching out for, is the
man who will send out anonymous cir
culars and stab another man in the
back. This distinguished little gentle
man is travelling about with such no.
torious character as Leon Dennery.'
SPECTACLE OF CAMPAIGN
"A wondrous spectacle is presented
in this campaign" Johnson said later
in his speech. Two candidates are
engaged in a death struggle for the
tenderloin vote of San Francisco. The
mayor of this city has a candidate on
each hand begging him to accord that
tenderloin support. I'd rather be a
dog and bay the moon, I'd rather be a
frog and live upon a dungeon mould
than go into the tenderloin and solicit
VOTES lor the SoFoiHoiShiP VI TINS
state
In a reference to Curry, whom he
also failed to name. but spoke of as
another candidate" Johnson said:
THE first issue presented by this
other candidate was upon streamers.
the initial cost of which was three
times the entire cost of the campaign
of the entire ticket of the Lincoln
Roosevelt league.
SPEECH CALLED ELOQUENT
This candidate made one speech and
is thus ahead of the ssmug little BUSH
nessman who has made none, relying
upon his bought rags to disseminate
his views. That one speech was doubt
less the most eloquent ever heard in
California and in 1T the candidate de-
clared himself directly and honestly
and unequivocally upon one issue, an