Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-06
LYNCH ALONE BACKING
THE M|NNES0TAN'S
B 90 N
Millionaire Has Brought John.
son Into Llmellght
Because lie
Likes Him.
GOVERNOR IS NOT
HILLS CANDIDATE
SO Far but Little Money Has Been
Expended in Making Him a Ma
tiOndl Figure and None Of II
Has Been Contributed by
Wall Street.

Denver, Colo. July 6.--Who Is fin
ancing the John A. Johnson candi-
dacy? Is johnson James ]. Hills
man? Is johnson the heir of the
Parker influences?
Answering the above questions. w.
w. Jermane of Minneapolis, known to
every politician, Republican and DEM
ocratlc, in the northwest, said:
Il am neither a politician nor an
authorized representative or John =.
johnson, but l have known Johnson
anu known his public record for as
many years as he has had one, and
l feel that | can say some things on
that subject from first-hand Informal
ton.
I'm the first place, as to the state
ment that Johnson is a tool of Wall
street, and a 'reactionary' and all
that, it is the merest nonsense. In
Minnesota, where Johnson is known.
those stories do not circulate. Even
when Bryan's friends tried to prevent
Johnson instructions, they did not
make any such charges. The talk of
johnson being Jim Hill's man, or
O'Connor's man, or anybody else's
man, are all put up for outside con-
sumption.
Anybody who has ever read one OF
Johnson's messages to the Minnesota
Legislature, or has read his Shiloh
speech, or heard him talk, knows that
Johnson is just as much of a progress
sive az is Bryan. There are one or two
matters on which he does not agree
with Bryan, matters like the govern-
ment ownership of railroads and the
referendum. But on the whole he is
quite as progressive and quite as free
from any suspicion of being amenable
to vested interests as is Bryan.
You ask where the money comes
from that finances the Johnson cam
paign for the nomination. / will tell
you where it comes from. Frederick
b. Lynch takes 1t out of his own
pocket. Lynch is chairman of the
State Democratic Committee and
great admirer of Johnson. Lynch is
also a business man who has profited
by the recent opening up of cheap
anu good Canadian lands in the
, Northwest. He has made probably
81, 900, 600 out of Canadian lands. Now
the whole Johnson candidacy has
been promoted, run and financed by
Lynch, Frank Day, the governors
private secretary, and Theodore
Knappen, formerly Minneapolis
newspaper man; and now, like Lynch.
in the land business
THE reports of money spent to
promote Johnson have been greatly
exaggerated. A few thousand dollars
"a bagatelle to Lynch will cover
the whole thing. They have paid
some board bills at the Grand Pacific.
They have had small printing bill.
They have had a few clerks and some
postage and some railroad fare.
doubt if the whole thing will come
to $1,000 81,
IN return for his money. Lynch
has made Johnson a national figure.
He has Introduced him to the United
States as a presidential possibility.
And In so doing, he has, In my judg-
ment, done as a big a favor to the
United states as he has to Johnson.
yes | have been asked about the
support of Johnson by Eastern DEM
ocrats All that can be said to that
is that man cannot always choose
his supporters. There are. as is well
known, influences in the East which
are bitterly opposed to Bryan. They
have opposed Bryan by all the meth
DDS which they knew. When az the
eleventh hour. Johnson came into the
game, without their advice or con-
sent, they probably figured that even
johnson would do as a club to hit
Bryan. This does not mean. however.
that Johnson Is a creature of Tam
many or Standard Oil II simply
means that these enemies Of Bryan
would fight him with any man avail
able"