The Washington herald., 1920-04-26
BOLT DANGER
SMALLSHOULD
SENATOR LOSE
Former President Finds Cal
ifornian's S Radical Support
Doesn't t Help Cause.
QUESTION OF FEALTY
Republican Leaders Doubt
Solon Would Back Nomi-
nee Favoring Treaty.
QUESTION OF FEALTY
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State. the delights of the climate,
the plenty and comfort which pre-
vail with all, have created an op-
timism and a political idealism
which manifest themselves at times
in a surprising way
Mr.. Johnson has often been the
beneficiary of this marked trait Of
the voters of the Golden Gate His
however. has shocked his former
supporters of this class. Especially
is this true of the women-who have
learned their power in California,
who know how to use IL and are
enthusiastic in its exercise.
For them Mr.. Hoover-who Is to
them the only real American genius
of the war. and with whom in the
war campaigns they worked sue
cessfully in conscious corporation
has been substituted for Senator
Johnson as their ideal leader.
Old slogan Ineffective.
Mr.. Johnson's championship Of the
people as against the corporations
has ceased to hold them as a slogan
Mr.. Hoover's advocacy of the league
Of nations. which they cherish as
the only practical method of avoid
ing war, makes them ardent in his
cause.
Mr.. Johnson's peculiar strength
has heretofore been In Southern
California and among the labor cir
cles in San Francisco. He now has
against him not only the Los An
geles Times, which has always been
against him, but also the Los An
geles Express. which has heretofore
been his strongest supporter in
Southern California. He must get
along now with the favor Of the
Hearst papers. which always give
to the campaign of a candidate an
atmosphere which does not appeal
to fdealistic Southern Californians.
Many of Mr.. Johnson's prominent
lieutenants have gone over to Mr..
Hoover 1t is reported that infiu-
ential members of the state ma
chine under Governor stephens arc
openly supporting Mr.. Hoover.
Mr.. Johnson's ticket bears the
names of orthodox regular Repub-
licans of wealth and large cor
porats connections, whom he has
heretofore denounced in unmeas-
ured terms. The ,anomoly thus pre-
sented is not likely to win either
regular or progressive Republican
votes.
Lively Campaign Certain.
Mr.. johnson will doubtless make
a whirlwind campaign and rouse
acute interest in it in all parts of
California.
But such a campaign sometimes
reacts upon the campaigner by
rousing not only his supporters but
his opponents as well. The news
which comes from California from
men familiar with the situation and
OF political experience there is that
Mr.. johnson may be beaten, that
indeed the indications favor this,
although 1t is hard for one outside
the State to credit it.
The effect of all these circum-
stances upon Mr.. Hoover's candi-
dacy for the presidency seems curl
Gus. 1t is to clothe his candidacy
with a party regularity which il
did not before have.
1t Institutes a comparison at once
between Mr.. Johnson's regularity
and Mr.. Hoover's. and in this re-
gard Mr.. Johnson's record shows
1t is only Johnsonism.
ne mas uStu lne party when II
suited his purpOses-he has con-
demned and punished it when it did
not.
Change In Sentiment.
II now Mr.. Hoover demonstrates
that Mr.. Johnson has lost the power
to do this in California, he will
entitle himself to the gratitude of
all regular Republicans.
In spite of his political slip of
1918. which did no injury to the
Republican party in the result, as
Mr.. JohnsOn's desertions have done,
his name Is considered with much
less acerbity by orthodox Repub-
licans than when his candidacy for
the Republican nomination first was
broached.
This is not to say that Mr.. Hoo
yer will be nominated. but it Is
only to say that events are push
ing him forward as a serious can
didate much more than could have
been anticipated.
Copyright. 1920. by Public Ledger Col