Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-14
STRENGTH OF
HIRAM JOHNSON
The Californian Said to Be a Bet
ter Vote-Getter Than Roosevelt,
Hughes or Taft

Sir-Will you please eliminate Taft. Roose.
velt and Hughes as Republican cand dates in
l9ZoE All are back numbers" None repre.
sents any definite issue in the crisis of today
There Is to be only one important issue be-
Iore tne American people in 1920. and the
pohtical party which makes itself the cham
pion OF the right side of that issue will sweep
the country.
Inc issue Is Americanism versus Hyphen-
ISM II Is an issue by which every righteous
iorce IN this nation Is to be utilized in driv-
ing out the many.headed hyphen that the
european war unfortunately has developed in
America.
tart: Roosevelt and Hughes c .ch represents
species of hyphenism. All are tainted with
IL, put Taft the least of all. However. Taft
could not win. as the Roosevelt element un.
doubtedly would practice sabotage, Roose-
welt would be given a crushing defeat-the
reason Is apparent. Hughes is believed to
nave behind him n political alliance the
mere suspicion of which will defeat him.
but IN Hiram Johnson Of California. the Re.
puDiican party has candidate whose Amer
icanism Is beyond doubt. whose progressive
ness is conceded and who has boldly cham.
pioned the very essence of a political pro.
gram which Is necessary to defeat the pres
tige of Wilson
The nation Is demanding public ownership
Oh OIL the railroads. johnson also demands It..
The nation Is demanding a creation of bys.
terical patriotism. johnson also demands it,
The nation is demanding that the suppress
sion or free speech. with the conn.vance of
an alleged Democratic Administration, cease
Johnson also demands 1t. The nation Is de.
nandng that that invisible economic in.
iluence standing between the farmer and the
consumer be drawn into the light and
crushed. johnson also demands It, The
nation Is demanding Industrial Justice John.
son also demands It. The nation is demand.
ing universal suffrage, regardless of sex or
other previous condition of servitude John.
sun NOT only demands It, but was elected to
the Senate with the aid of women's votes
The sphere of influence has drifted from
New England. the East and the Eastern Mid
ole West to the Middle West and the Far
west. No political cand date can win the
presioency unless he Is supported by the In.
nuences west of Illinois. where the shackles of
the New York city moneybund and the New
England tariff clique have been thrown Off
woodrow Wilson owes his second term TO
those influences. He would have been de.
cisively beaten had the Republicans sensed
the need OF shifting from Hughes to johnson.
yet the latter was comparatively unknown as
a vote-getter in 1915. 1t required the cleo.
tion, 1t required the words wait for the
returns from the West" to force the conclI.
sion that an eastern candidate, without n
western spirit, had no chance in the political
market johnson Is all that the West re.
quires, and that In itself would elect him.
but IN the East as well. he is strong for
even mere. even in cynical New York and en-.
shaved pennsylvania, the throbs of a new
democracy, shaming the present quackocracv.
are being -elt. In two more years by the
time that everything is ripe for the picking
the new democracy-not written or under
stood by Wilson-wil have come to its
majority; and. unless both Republicans and
Democrats want to send hundreds of thou.
sands of anti-Socialists to voting the SociaI,s,
ticket, the former. at least. ought to present
Johnson for the sake of pure America nIs,n
Philadelphia, March 49,