Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-01
HIRAM JOHNSON
IS COMING SOON
LINCOLN-ROOSEVELT LEADER
TO VISIT SOUTH
POLITICAL AsPIRANTS WORKING
HARD
Stanton's Campaign Committee viii
Be Announced Today-Discusses
Alden Andersons Chances
for Governor

Politics, like the weather. is begin
ming to brighten and become slightly
tinged with heat. Members of the Lin
Roosevelt league, who have been
so busy with other matters that they
have not said much about their candi-
date for governor, Hiram w. Johnson
announced yesterday there was nc
lukewarmness in their campaign for
him, but that "things would lNen up
within a few days. Johnson has Fent
word to the league folks here that he
will be in Los Angeles within two
weeks. He will remain here a week,
meeting old acquaintance, forming
new ones, and will make a hand
shaking campaign. incidentally, he
may make few speeches, Just to show
those who do not know him what a
whirlwind he is.
On the other hand, P. A. Stanton,
who is endeaVoring to hold all the vot-
ers in line in Southern California and
obtain the nomination on the Repub-
lican ticket for governor, is Tightening
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scheduled to make public the names
of his campaign committee. Also. he
will announce the location of his head
quarters, which Will be opened later
in the day, possibly. stanton says he
does not feel that the candidacy of
Alden Anderson for gubernatorial
honors will not interfere or affect his
campaign.
THE more the merrier is the way it
fa ma
glanced casually at the mountain
sized pile of newspaper clippings hi.
bureau sends to his office. The ma
jority of the clippings contained refe"-
ence to Anderson's announcement that
he would like to be governor of Cali
fornia. Stanton read these with lips
pursed, but there was a twinkle in his
eyes and a suspicion of smile at the
corners of his mouth when he glance J
lp from the handful of newspaper
items.
"Of course Anderson is presumed to
have the push backing in the north
ern end of the state. but I do not be-
lieve the push can control this end
of the state for him. The business In
terests to which Anderson might ap-
peal are men whose names are on the
petition urging me to become a can
didate. Then, too, there are many other
things which do not cause me to be
alarmed about his receiving the united
support of the voters here. My friends
here know that killed the race tracts,
and what / did for the consolidation
bill. permitting the merger of san Pc
dro. Wilmington and Los Angeles, and
these. coupled with other official acts
of mine while I was speaker of the
assembly speak for me and my candl-
dacy."
stanton has not found exactly
smooth sailing in getting on his cam
paign committee just the men he de-
sired. When he said yesterday that
the personnel of the committee, which
may number more than $50, had been
completed, a sigh of relief accompanied
his words. The stanton Boosters y
club will meet at its weekday lunch
at the Hollenbeck at noon today. The
headquarters announcement ana the
men who will manage his campaign
will be made public at that time. The
banquet which Stanton's admirers are
planning to give in his behalf will be
the actual opening of the state cam
paign so far as the Republicans are
concerned. The banquet date will be
discussed today, and the time and
place of its holding may be determined
before the Boosters" disperse.
eyes. if may be true that many have
been puzzled why we did not do ana
saw something before this in Johnson
behalf" said Meyer Lissner of the LIN
coin Roosevelt leagues state executive
committee "The truth is we have been
h,sv with other affairs. We knew that
Johnson was coming down here ana
have been governed by that. Now we
know he will be here within two weeks
and that one week of his time VIII pc
passed here. At that time those VINO
think we are luke warm will learn what
kind of red blood courses in our
veins"
wiseacres who heard that State SEN
ators Thompson, Estuidillo and Rose
berry of Southern California, and SEN
ators Stetson and Strowbridge or the
northern end of the state were IN con-
ference at the Hotel Alexandra a
night or two ago with Senators Bell
and Boynton, retiring members OF the
state senate, and others who are not
officeholders, conjectured that can
didate for United States senator 10
succeed Senator Frank Flint was IN
the making. This was denied with con-
siderable emphasis by several OF those
who were with the senators
Frank II, Mouser of Los Angeles
who aspires to the nomination Tor sec
retarv of state at the hands OF the
Republican voters, was buster yester-
dav than a crow which mad lnteresleu
itself in the fighting abilities of flock
of blackbirds The cause of Mouser s
activity was the presence in the city OF
an invader in the person Of Frank G.
Jordan, formerly clerk of the state su-
nrenoe court. Jordan has hankering
for the office MouSer is seeking, ana
he not only sought out p. A. stanton
and other Republicans, but he visited
the offices of many men interested in
lincoln Roosevelt and Good Govern
ment politics.
norLEP pANS Rows FINE