Arizona republican., 1919-10-04
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 1T DESTINY |S
 JOHNSON CLAIM
California Senator Given
 Demonstrative Reception
 At Los Angeles = China Forgotten at Peace Table
rRenubl,can A.P. Leased Wirel

sons here today at q luncheon tend cred him by the Los Angeles League for the Preservation of American ln- depence. United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson attacked the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant and declared that the United States shall enter into partnership with "malodorous European and Asiauc diplomacy, or pursue the straight pata of pure Americanism.
 Senator Johnson was given dem onstrative reception and his address was interrupted many times when his utterances brought thA big crowd to it's feet cheering and waving hand kerchiefs. The senator spoke in the ball room of hotel, where two weeks ago President Wilson defended the treaty and the league of nations and urged it's early ratification.
 At the senator's table were gathered many of his friends who were active in the early days of the progressive party which swept Hiram W. Johnson into office as governor of California
 We saw the high principles of President Wilson discarded said Sen ator Johnson, "we saw altruism gone and idealism buried and we saw open covenants openly arrived at accom- plished behind barred doors. We looked to see the removal Of economic barriers we looked Io see national armaments reduced but we never heard the sembiance of an accomplishment. We saw arbitrary power have it's will in the adjustment of world affairs an1 we saw defensive and offensive all liance brought about instead of a de- sired understanding for world peace"
 Senator Johnson declared that the treaty represents the understanding of the United States belligerents be- fore this country entered the war. Dis cussing the Sharuung provisions Of the treaty, Senator Johnson asserted that Americas acceptance of the transfer of Chinese sovereignty Of the shan tung peninsula to Japan was shame : ful blot on Americas honor.
 The United States lovernment, the senator continued, invited China to participate in the world war on a promise that China would be taken care of at the peace table. She was taken care of to the extent that the United States became party 10 her dispoilment, Senator Johnson asserted The league of nations was denounced by the senator as tantamount to con- ferring on foreign powers the exercise of Americas pm ticipat.on in foreign affairs. Eight men, sitting in Geneva all foreigners, he said. could and would determine the course ol the United States in world quarrels in which this country would be dragged in to assist the settlement Of matters in which she could have no, concern
 T .ls tl. +r. 1 the United States would be isolated il the senate refused to ratify the peace ! treaty and the covenant was ridiculous So long as the Atlantic and Pacific i oceans remain. said Senator Johnson 1 the United States could not in any sense remain isolated from any pari of the world. and President Wilso. can not dry up those oceans, he said
 United States Senator Hiram W i Johnson. traversing the territory re- gently visited by President Wilson 1T | his tour for support of the ratification 1 of the peace treaty and the league o' nations covenant, addressed two en- thusiastic audiences here today in op- position to both issues.
 In both appearances, Senator John
 son appealed to his audience to voic, their unequovical disapproval of thu treaty and covenant as incompatibl, with American ideals of democrati' government At each of the meetings
 which began with a luncheon and con | cluded with an address at the Shriv
 auditorium. Senator Johnson wa
 wildly applauded for his stand on tn
 platform for straight Americanism. Approximately 1000 persons crowde,
 the Shrine auditorium to hear Senate
 Johnson expounded his doctrine o
 straight Americanism" and attack tn
 provision of the treaty and league. H
 denounced both as unworthy Of Amer
 ican ideals and traditions.
 On the rostrum with Senator John : son were three former United State
 senators from California. They wer
 Cornelius Cole, republican senator I
 the sixties, and Frank r. Flint an
 John D. Works. all of Los Angeles.
 Senator Johnson's address. whic
 was an enlargement of his afternoo
 theme, was interrupted time and tim
 again by applause and cheering. ,, To persons who have addressed tele grams to him asking that he aba ndo
 his tour against justification, Senate Johnson said:
 Why ride the clouds like some of m friends and ask me to change m
 mind" He said he could not turn bac after possessing a knowledge of tn pitfalls into which the United State would enter if the country became party to the treaty in it's present forn Senator Johnson and his party wi , leave Los Angeles tomorrow for Sa
 Francisco and from there will continu
 to Portland, Oregon, and Seattle.
 Text of Address
 The text of the address at Shrin auditorium follows in part:
 And when the president wei abroad you looked. as l did. wit straining eyes. and with hope and long 2 ing, and you looked hoping and pray
 ing that out of Europe's great coMfli, l in which we had become involved, ths 1 out of this peace conference sitting 3 Paris might come something tn; s would render-ever impossible conflic | frop+f-ue-I np T.r-.A