The Washington times., 1920-06-08

the ways"
/ the convention, what he said at the
meeting.
The most ignorant man would
understand and believe Borah. The
most highly educated would appre-
ciate his power and simplicity.
Any man who heard his bitter
denunciation Of the peace league
would feel more intense hatred Of
that miserable, un-American device
! Of diplomatic chicanery.
4 He quoted with contempt the
statement that under the League
Congress would decide about send
ing our men and asked suddenly
"who sent our men into Russia? Did
Congress send them? l asked the
President who sent them there and
was told that it was incompatible
with the public interest to reply to
my inquiry.
Gray-Haired Women Applaud.
Old women, gray haired, jumped
to their feet applauding when John
son said, 81 would not shed one drop
of American blood to settle a bound
ary dispute between Serbia and
Roumania, or any other dispute that
did not concern the United States"
The enthusiasm for Borah was as
great as for Johnson, and the people
should be ever grateful to Borah for
the magnificent. unselfish support
he has given the fighter from Cali
fornia.
Borah handled with remorseless
bitterness the shameful revelations
about huge campaign funds. He
pretended TO narrate the usual
funny story" with which politicians
punctuate their dull speeches. Then
he described what happened in Rome,
after the death Of Pertinax, when the
job of emperor was put up at public
auction. One candidate Ibid, in our
money, nine hundred thousand dol
lars, another bid nine hundred and
fifty thousand. Finally the title of
emperor was actually bought for
two and a half millions"
i He ended the funny story" by
saying that if the Roman emperor
ship could be sold for two and a
half millions, one million and half
was too little for the American
Presidency.
! When Borah tells. that story in the
convention, it will end the Proctor
soap boom anyhow. Johnson's cleo
ton ought to mean the appointment
!of an Attorney General that will
send for Mr.. Proctor and find out
Just what other attempts he has
made to buy Offices for pet candi-
dates.
THE COUNTRY NEEDS A
\ CANDIDATE LIKE JOHNSON
THAT WOULD MAKE THE
FLOATING. IVORY SOAP OF
lPOLITICAL CORRUPTION SINK
Ito THE BOTTOM OF SOME
FIRST-CLASS FEDERAL PENI-
TENTIARY.
The meeting last night was a
warning to political bosses. II they
try to float any soap candidate
through this campaign, they will
fail.
They need not deceive themselves
with the idea that if they fail to get
the Republican they want, they will
get some Democrat just as good.
This is to be no substitute campaign.
The next Presidents going to be
HIRAM JOHNSON. If the Repub-
licans don't nominate him, the peo-
pie will nominate him. And they
Twill eject him. He will take from
the Republican party at least mil
lion more voters than Roosevelt took
| in 1912, and he will take several
millions from the Democratic party
tas we'll.
While johnson and Borah were
speaking last night, William Jen-
nings Bryan, with fierce eagle eye
and keen attention, was reporting
the meeting for the Hearst news
papers. Borah looked at him con-
stantly while talking of President
Wilson and the preposterous peace
league. At the end of the meeting
Bryan was, as usual, warmly greeted
by those near him, and something
new happened to him. The crowd
shouted to him, urging him to vote
tor johnson, and some In the crowd
shouted to others nearer Bryan, "Gc
over and convert him to johnson.
Having heard those two speeches
and watched the crowd, Mr.. Bryan
sincere, honest man, knows, and
will not deny, that the League is
deader than dead, and that johnson
is, by at least one thousand per cent
the most popular candidate in either
party.
HE WILL BE ELECTED as tn,
Republican candidate, or IL the Re
publicans will it SO, as independent
candidate, defeating both the ole
parties.
JOHNSON WILL RUN FOR THE
PRESIDENCY THIS FALL. Write
that on your tablets.
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