The San Francisco call., 1910-03-01
JOHNSON OUTLINES
SIZZLING CAMPAIGN
Lincoln-Roosevelt Candidate for
Governor to. Stump From
San Diego. to siskiyou
Anti-Machine Wing Of the Party
May Complete Ticket at
Meeting Saturday
By GEORGE A. VAN SMITH


the republican nomination for COVER
nor his failure will not be due to a
laggard personal campaign The Lin
coin Roosevelt league candidate is
planning a sizzling canvass over a
route embracing everything from
Humboldt to San Diego.
1t required a deal of urging to get
Johnson into the fight. No spur will
be necessary to keep up his fighting
pace now that he is in. Johnson has
never campaigned for himself, but he
is not novice at the game. Witness
the fights he made for George Clark
and Grove l.. Johnson. He has evil
IDENTIFY given more than passing at
tentfon to the campaign methods in the
middle western direct primary states
and purposes to adapt himself to them.
He purposes to go out and get in
personal contact with the republicans
of California.
Il am not going to overlook any
thing" said Johnson yesterday. Il
shall go into the little towns as we'll
as the larger communities and into
the farming districts as well as the
towns. l want to make the farmers
and the men in the rural districts
understand the Importance this fight
has for them to make them under
stand that it is their fight. We Will
follow not only the regular routes and
beaten paths of campaigns, but we will
also get out of those paths. We are.
going to try to arouse the interest
OF the less populeus districts, where
the people had no opportunity to ex-
ercise their political rights before the
enactment of the direct primary law.
GOING AFTER THE FARMER
THE farmer knows already that he
is directly affected by the Herrin ma
chine exploitation of the government
of this state. We are going to show
him how to bring the government back
TO all the people. We are going to
show him that if the government is
conducted on behalf of the people,
farmer and merchant alike will enjoy
greater prosperity.
We are going to teach the young
men of this state that they have the
right to aspire to political preferment
without bartering away their inde-
pendence or selling their souls to
political bureau maintained by corpor-
ate interests. We are going to teach
that the direct primary law has made
1t possible for young men and poor
men of merit to present themselves
to the men of their parties solely on
their merits without asking the leave
of w. +. Herrin or any political boss
or machine.
we are going to spread in this state
the spirit of that message Of President
Roosevelt in which he declared for
equal opportunity for ALL We stand
for that opportunity which is not ac-
corded by the aid of the state to a
favored few, in accordance with the
directions Of a Southern Pacific boss.
I stand squarely for Theodore Roose-
welt and for his policies of government
for the whole people. OF course, we.
are all for the square DEAL but not as
the special interests and corporations
understand the square deal. Their idea
of the square deal is everything for
themselves and nothing for the people
Our idea of the square deal is a square
deal for the people first
RoOSEyELTERS CALL MEETING
u A m eeting g: of the executive committee
been called for next Saturday: : At the
headquarters it is given out that the
meeting is for the ransactfon: of bust:
ness unfinished at the last meeting
That may. be taken, to mean that the
executive committee purposes to in
.dorse candidates fol. several places and
possibly the <compl etion of a. state
ticket. :. -: -:
Attorney General II. s. Webb will
probably be the first to receive "a Ger
tffcate of good conduct and assiira noes,
of the .confidence*of the leaguers: Webb
has never affiliated with. the Lincoln
Roosevelt league, but he has been a.
good public servant The. Ieaguers In
.sist:. that they are not hunting jobs for. .
their members, but that they. will not;
submit tamely.. to the ma chine job to
Gust Webb because he has. performed.
his sworn duty. H.: Is ~ @.~,
Surveyor General w. s. Kingsbiiiry of
Los Angeles is down for similar treat
Inent by the league Like Webb Kings
bury is not a Lacquer. He has made
good in office and the leaguers say that
the fact that every timber: and land:
thief in the state wants him beaten en-
titles him to the leagues support. ,:l
AFTER COOPER's CANOPY
If the cards run right. the leaguers
will. invite Judge Thomas J. Lennon of
Marin county to get in: the race for. a
seat on the first district court of appeals
bench, The 1eaguers want Justice
Cooper's hair. They would be Just as
bitterly opposed to him if he were re-
publican. and at that it is whispered
that. Cooper is minded to try for the
republican nomination.
And then by way of recognizing per-
sonal worth and ability to the exclu-
sion of every other consideration the
leagues committee may invite Friend
William Richardson of Berkeley to ac-
cept their support for the nomination
for state printer. Richardson was one
of the original Lincoln Roosevelt league
editors and more recently was the CUB
ciation of country newspapers over
which he presides president.
There is no politics in the selection