The San Francisco call., 1910-12-23
johnson Wins
Insurgents FOR
San FRANCISCO
Governor Elect Returns After
Lining Up Many Votes on
the Exposition
Declares That Patriots and
Thinkers of Today Are
the Progressives

Governor elect Hiram w. Johnson re-
turned from Washington and New York
yesterday evening, accompanied by DIR.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler and others of
San Franciscos exposition advocates.
after having secured promises of the
votes of progressive republicans in both
houses for the Panama Pacific interna-
tional exposition here in 1915 The gov
ernor elect brought other tidings not
related to this citys exposition ambi-
tions-news of Theodore Roosevelt and
the hopes and plans of the progressive
wing of the republican party, united
under Senator La Toilette
Il believe that the atmosphere has
cleared in Washington, and that San
Francisco will be successful" said
Johnson. 1T is now generally admitted
that San Francisco is the appropriate
and logical place for the exposition, and
the energy displayed by our citizens,
particularly in the upbuilding of this
city and the raising of the. finances
necessary for exposition success is
recognized and appreciated
Californias governor elect virtually
brought back with him the battle cry of
the progressives.
Led by La Toilette
81 had the opportunity of observing
the great and the near great of the ma
ton" he went on. .'and California may
well feel proud of being an insurgent
state The patriots and the thinkers
today are the progressives; men led by
La Toilette.
81 had a pleasant day with Colonel
Roosevelt in New York and I have no
doubt he will be found in the future,
as in the past, making the fight just as
strenuously for equal opportunity and
common honesty.
Johnson was loath to talk of his work
for the exposition, but said that he had
personally interviewed each progressive
in both houses and secured their votes
for this city. Every progressive vote
in both houses will go for California.
Without detracting from the credit
due to any other man in the delega-
tion," Johnson continued, II wish to
say most earnestly that Reuben B.
Hale is deserving of the highest praise
for his continual and indefatigible
work. He was always unselfishly on
the job, never desiring any prominence
or praise for himself, but always work
ing unremittingly for San Francisco.
Il went to Washington Independently
of any committee to render what serv-
ice I could to San Francisco. What I
could do 1 did, and then went on to
New York.
lette, Bristow, Cummins, Beveridge,
Clapp and Borah with lter-the big
men-and that means much for us.
ROOSEVELT COMING
Roosevelt is coming out here in
March to deliver several lectures at the
University of California, and doubtless
he will be heard at two other points
in this state-very probably San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of
the University of California, was one
of the returning exposition committee
men. He expressed the opinion that
San Francisco is now. on the winning
side
NJ H de Young and Fremont Older
both of whom have been in Washing
ton in the interest of the exposition, re-
turned yesterday also.
Mrs. Johnson, accompanied her hus-
band in his travels. They were greeted
on their arrival at Sacramento by
Grove L. Johnson, father of the COVER
nor elect, and by the next state execu-
tive's two sons, Hiram w. Johnson Jr.
and Archibald NJ. Johnson. The latter
two accompanied their father and
mother to this city and the trip from
the capital city was a family reunion,
The lOuT CudLltliS oil liAS way Oll Tile
observation platform.
MORE DUE TOMORROW
Tomorrow more exposition enthu-
siasts are due from the field of strife.
among them M. F. Tarpey of Fresno
who receives the unstinted praise of
all who were at the national capital
Frank L. Brown, chairman of the pub
licity committee of the exposition; r. B.
Hale, acting president Of the exposi-
tion and its moving spirit, and Cover
nor J. N. Gillett. who has been putting
in his best licks at Washington, to
good effect. William r. Hearst is COM
ing also.
Theodore A. Bell will remain In
Washington right through the holidays
and the furious days of fighting that
are coming before the matter comes
to a vote. With Bell will be Leon Sloss
and A. w. Scott Jr. They will remain
ION guard" and California headquar-
ters will be maintained right through
until the vote is taken.
All those who came yesterday ex-
pressed a conviction that San Fran
cisco's exposition fight is in good order,
and progressing we'll. Without excep-
ton the credit for the strides into ia
vor that San Francisco made, and the
winning majority it finally gained, was
given chiefly to r. 3. Hale. He was
described as a dynamo of energy.
working all the time, and along the