Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1920-06-17
LITTLE SAID
As HARDING
IS CHOSEN
california Folk Non Commit
tai on Nomination of G. o. P.
Candidate for President
Southern Part of State Happy
Johnson Is Defeated, But
Hiram Strong in North
(By the Editor

(By the Editor
LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 12.-This
citv and environs tonight greeted with
little enthusiasm the announcement
through extra editions of the news
napers that Senator Warren G. Hard
inc of Ohio had been selected by
the Republican National convention in
Chicago as the G. o. P. standard bear
err in the coming convention.
Lack of enthusiasm in this Repub-
lican stronghold for the nominee, it
is believed, may be attributed to the
fact that the Ohio senator is little
known to the people of the west coast.
His running mate. Governor Coolidge
Of Massachusetts,. who was the con-
vention s choice as the vice presiden-
tial nominee, however, is more favor
ably known to the people of the
Southland because of his decisive
action, several months ago, in squelch-
ing labor disorders in Boston.
OPPOSED TO JOHNSON
Nomination of the Ohio senator for
the presidential contest, neverthe
less, met with great measure of
approval here, little as is he known,
because of the fact that he was cho-
sen over Senator Hiram Johnson, of
California, for whom the Califor-
MIA delegation at Chicago voted.
People of Los Angeles county, as
whole, were opposed to Senator John
son as the Republican presidential
nominee, for numerous good and suf
Of xxrhf oh
seem to have disqualified him.
Hiram was ardently championed by
the Hearst newspapers, and this,
alone, would have made him unpop-
ular with the better elements of So
ciety. The people here distinctly re-
member Hiram s recent visit to North
Dakota, where he played politics on
the same side of the fence as does
the NOn-Partisan league.
WOULD GET PRO-GERMANS
And again, one man told me only
today that if Hiram Johnson were
nominated he would be certain to
receive all the Pro German votes in
the country.
While Southern California was hos
tile toward Hiram as a presidential
possibility, in spirit of fairness, one
must not overlook the tremendous
following of the senator among organ
lied labor in the north, chiefly in
the vicinity of San Francisco. John
son had labor believing at least,
that he was the friend of the com
mon "peepul,'' and as such drew
forth the practically unanimous sup
port of the trade unions.
The Los Angeles Times, beyond a
doubt the greatest newspaper on the
Pacific coast, has fought Johnson all
Though the game It will be re-
membered that it was the plant of
the Los Angeles Times which was
dynamited by unionists a number of
years ago.
WHY HE VOTED FOR JOHNSON
man tonight told me that he had
voted for johnson for U. S. senator
from California. ct didn have any
use for the man, he laconically re-
marked, ''but I voted for him any
way
Asking for reason, then, for casting
ms ballot for Hiram, the Californian
REPLIED ''Well, he had things all
ms own way here, in California.
and we simply couldn't do anything
%lth him, so I thought I would
nelp send him back east where he
would run up against better and wiser
men than he, who would show him
ne couldn t run things" And he did.
JUST LIKE BoRAH
A large percentage of the Republi
oans OF California evidently is of the
same attitudq toward johnson as /
are thousands of their brethren in
Iuaho with respect to Borah. John
son has broken his plate, but Borah
was cute enough to save his saucer,
"nich still contains some milk.
:. Now, with the Republican nomina-
slon settled, all eyes will turn to-
ward the Democratic National con-
,Eention, to convene in San Francisco,
.ate IN June. So intense has been
.ne interest in the Chicago conven-
tion that little thought has so far
oeeh gwen the San Francisco gather
ing However, if rumor means any
sning, William G.. McAdoo will be the
nominee for president.
heard a good one last night, but
=. .g1nght it is rather obsolete. Never
'neiess here goes:
II Hoover were "brol1e' and out of |
Ioo' would Johnson Hir-amq
II not perhaps L, Jnard Wood.