The Washington times., 1920-06-07

Are you good ana loyal IL you
are not nominated. will you support
the Republican nominee. or will you
wickediy bolt"
Nobody asks other Republican can
didates-notably Mr.. Herbert Hoover
the same question.
Read the latest interesting politi-
cal news. not guesswork.
The gentlemen of the big pocket
books, who think that there Is
great difference between gutter an
archists and financial anarchists like
themselves, don't want Johnson. They
would gladly take Hoover IL they
could get him. Mr.. Hoover evidently
is not harsh in doing business. This
Is made clear by the fact that men
from whom he bought food with the
public money. as shown in the SEN
ate investigation. are the men that
put up the cash to help him run Tor
President Evidently, while the buy
ing was going on. they were all little
patriots together, and Hoover didn't
squeeze them hard.
Gentlemen that don't like john
sons talk about prosecuting Dig
graftere" know they cannot have
Hoover. But they have plan to
make Mr.. Hoover extremely useful,
The plan was revealed unintention-
ally, on Friday, unlucky day, by Mr..
Bliven, editor OF the New YORK
Globe, Mr.. Hoover's friend and ad-
mirer Mr.. Bliven says that II Mr..
n Il, nominated II will hp
his solemn duty to run as an inde-
pendent and give the common people
a chance.
The plan liz to have Mr.. Hoover
run as an independent ii Hiram John
son Is nominated But il. instead
of Hiram Johnson, they can get a
good yellow dog" candidate that will
eat ivory soap out OF their hands,
Hoover will run home instead OF
running as an independent.
The plan OF the men that do not
like Johnson's honesty is to save
themselves from Johnson by nomi-
mating what they call safe Demo-
crat." They have a couple OF very
safe ones on ice, already partially
financed. ..
Hoover is to make his gallant in
dependent run in order to take votes
from Hiram Johnson and give the
election to the safe Democrat.
The scheme is not as preposterous
as it seems at first glance. For many
men and some women haven't as yet
a clear idea of Mr.. Hoover, partly
English and partly American. -
They haven't digested the fact
that the food men to whom he paid
the peoples money so eagerly
financed him. They forget perhaps
that while he was urging American
mothers to save food and ecOnomize
on their children he was permitting
race-track gamblers to use thous-
ands of bushels Of the best oats every
day to feed useless race horses and
permit gambling, when those horses
might as well have been turned out
TO pasture, the jockeys and ''rubbers"
sent to munition factories if they
didn't want to go to war.
Johnson's enemies hope Hoover
will take from Johnson enough votes
to make it possible for the safe
Democrat" to pull through.
Fortunately. as against any safe
Democrat" Johnson has in the
public esteem a margin of several
million votes. There are probably
not so many million fools, male
and female, in the Republican
party, and in all probability Mr..
Hoover will be able to turn the
trick and give the profiteers the
right sort of Democrat to save
them from Johnson, the man they
fear.
You may be interested to know
what the scheme is. weak as it is.
Needless to say, Mr.. Bliven is as
innocent in the whole matter as
child unborn by half a dozen gen
erations. And Mr.. Hoover, who
couldn't have told you year ago
whether he was Democrat or
Republican or an Englishman, is
innocent, perhaps. But there
is nothing innocent about the gang
that proposes to use Hoocer TO elect
n sdf, and sane Wall Street Demo