Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-23
JOHNSON WINNER
STATES LISSNER
Secretary of Good Government
Fund Returns from Meet
ing of League
TELLS OF PINCHoT'S MEETING
The People Waited Thirty Years,
He Says, to Throw Off the
Southern Pacific Yoke

Southern Pacific Yoke
Meyer Lissner, secretary of the Good
| Government fund and member of the
| executive boards of the Lincoln-Roose-
Velt league and the Good Government
organization, returned to Los Angeles
yesterday from a weeks sojourn in San
| Francisco, where he attended the meet
ing of the state executive committee
of the Lincoln Roosevelt Republican
league.
Speaking of this meeting, and the
prospects of Hiram w. Johnson, league
candidate for governor Mr.. Lissner
said yesterday:
"The meeting in San Francisco was
the most successful political gathering
have ever attended. 1t was presided
over by G. H. Bentley formerly presi-
dent of the San Francisco chamber
of commerce., and the speakers were
Daniel Ryan of San Francisco, Clifford
Pinchot and Mr.. Johnson. The Central
theater seats about $780, and when
arrived there about o'clock it was
practically impossible to get inside
the DOORS The policeman at the stage
entrance honored my invitation, how
ever and I managed to squeeze in.
There must have been 1000 people in the
building, all intensely interested and
very enthusiastic. An overflow meet
ing of between 1000 and 1000 people was
held outside Pinchots strong adVo-
cacy of the Lincoln Roosevelt move
ment and Johnson's candidacy will un
doubtedly solidify the reform forces
and mean thousands of additional
voters.
JOHNSON WINNER
"The general sentiment around the
bay seems to make johnson a sure
winner, with either Curry or Anderson
in second place. Ellerys candidacy is
considered a great joke and Stanton's
not very much better Stanton will not
get 2 per cent of the vote in the
northern counties, and while he may
receive a fair complimentary vote in
Southern California, his total vote will
be about one-ffth of the number re-
quired to land the nomination. The
general sentiment in the north seemed
to be that Stanton was being kept in
the race in order to draw from John
sons support in the south, because it
is we'll known that a certain number
of people will favor a local candidate
without considering the principles in
Volved. The probabilities are that as
the day of the primaries approaches
the word will be passed quietly down
the line to those organization men who
are now apparently behind Stanton's s
candidacy to go to Anderson or Curry
most likely Anderson-and the only re-
naming support Stanton Will have will
be the few deluded voters who will
have allowed themselves to be used as
cats paws by the heartless machine.
CURRY NEXT
At the resent time, next to John
son. Curry is the strongest candidate,
but eventually believe that Anderson
will lead Curry Curry has the sup
port of the liquor interests, the race
track gamblers, a horde of petty off,
cials throughout the state whom he
has befriended during his long term of
public office, and one Of the large San
Francisco bankers. Anderson Is the
real blown in the bottle Southern Pa
cific organization candidate. All that
one need do is to read the columns of
such notoriously machine sheets as the
San Francisco Chronicle and Post and
the Oakland Tribune, all of which are
supporting Anderson, to discover what
is the real machine program. No doubt
the local morning machine trumpet
would like to follow suit and abandon
Stanton, and I would not be surprised
to see that very thing happen before
August 16. If 1t does not happen, how
ever, 1t will be because the Times has
dug for itself too deep hole and will
have to stay in 1t.
"Another strong indication of where
the real machine stands in this fight
is that Governor Gillett is doing all he
can to help Anderson, who has also the
support of some very powerful bank
ing interests in San Francisco ana
throughout the state.
MUD FOR JOHNSON
''From now on, until August 16, the
aFV nnFTT
Word has gone down the line to all of
the subsidized press to open up their
mud batteries on Johnson and every
influence that can be brought or hired
to do the dirty work will be used,
regret to notice that q gentleman of
the cloth, who breaches the Christian
precepts, and who therefore ought to
be above that sort of thing mas lent
himself to this questionable cause.
'Tt is significant that no attempt to
besmirch or cast insinuations upon
Hiram Johnson's character is being
made in that part of the state where
he was born, and where the record or
his life has been an open book, but IL
is evidently going to be the policy or
the machine in this part of the state
to strive to hold him responsible,
through nasty insinuatlon, for what
another may have done, with whom he
has never been in political sympathy,
and whose political record Mr.. john
son for obvious reasons VIII not dls-
cuss In other words. q mean ana
cowardly advantage will be taken OF
Mr.. Johnson's proper reticence upon a
subject which a fine sense of the nat
ural proprieties would influence any
one with a spark of manhood to ignore.
"The money bags of the machine
have been opened wide. More money
is being spent for billboard advertising
for Anderson alone than can be raised
by the Lincoln Roosevelt league for its
whole state campaign. Immense litho-
graphs of Anderson in the highest type
of the printers art are being pasted
all over the state. Efforts are being
made to subsidize papers for him, as is
evidenced by the letter recently made
public by the Riverside Press, which
is supporting Johnson, in which it was
intimated that. if the paper would
switch to Anderson it would be well
paid for it,
"The Southern Pacific can afford TO
spend any amount of money to defeat
Johnson and the other candidates who
have been indorsed by the Lincoln
Roosevelt league. and if money alone
can do it they will be defeated. But
I have too high regard for the citi-
zenship of the majority of the Repub-
lican voters of California to believe
that such a thing is possible this year,