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Show COAST PARTY LEADER KILLED Theodore Bell, Attorney; Goes Over Embankment in Automobile SAN RAFAEL, Cal., Sept 5. Theodore A Bell, San Francisco at-torney, at-torney, former congressman from I California, twice candidate for gover-l nor on the Democratic ticket and widely known as a leader of opposl-j , tlon to enactment of prohibition actB, was killed In an automobile accident here Monday. Lueio Mlntzer, Bell's host at a gun club in the hills above Robs, C al , was bringing Bell back to the railroad to take a train for San Francisco He turned out to allow another car to pass and went over a high embankment. embank-ment. Bell was pinned beneath the car, probably dying instantly Mlnt-zer's Mlnt-zer's arm was broken. Bell has been prominent In Callfor- j nia politics for nearly 30 years He was elected to congress In 1902 and i Inter was renominated, but was de-feated de-feated His races for the governorship were In the campaigns of 1906, 1910 and 1918. REPLIES TO BRYAN. Rell was an ardent champion ofi light wines and beer as opposed to the eighteenth amendment and in the last! national Democratic convention debat-j ed with William J. Bryan on thei stand the convention should adopt, towards the wine growers of California. Califor-nia. "You are here," said Bryan, "representing "rep-resenting the liquor Interests" "You." retorted Bell, "are the paid spokesman of the drys As for myself my-self I am representing my old father! and hundreds of other Callfornians like him who were deprived of their vineyards by this vicious law." I Bell was admitted to the bar In 1S93. He wae married in 1899 to Anna M Muller, who, with a daughter daugh-ter 20 years old, survives him. LEAVES DEMOCRATS. Last year Bell quit the Democrat-j Democrat-j ic party and registered as a Republican, Repub-lican, giving as his reason that "he could not any longer follow the national na-tional leadership of the Democratic party." i Bell was one of the most gifted ora-! ora-! tors in California and his former Democratic colleagues weTe outspoken outspok-en In their sorrow over his loss from tbe councils of the party. |