The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-04-09
One Can Draw Conclusions
According to His Person
al Wishes
VICTORY
MOST PRONOUNCED
Middle Western State Gave Him and
His Opposition to Treaty Surprising
Endorsement = No National Senti-
ment Observable.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Copyright BY The Reformer.

WASHINGTON, April EVERY pr
mary election may have meaning all its
own but, collectively, all the primaries
thus far held have no meaning at all.
Symptoms they are of national express
sion that viii grow more conclusive as
the time of the political conventions APP
proaches but attempts to draw deduc-
tons standardizing the opportunities Of
the several presidential aspirants in both
parties are admittedly part of the precon-
vention game wherein the wish is father
to the thought. Those who don't like
Hiram Johnson or Herbert Hoover point
to New 1ork's vote for an npledged del
egation to the Republican national con
yention as a strong disapproval Of John
son and Hoover. Those who would like
to saturate the Democratic platform with
the moisture of liberalized planks on light
wines and beer derive aid and comfort
from the heavy vote given Governor Ed
wards, exponent of wetness, in the Mich
| igan primaries. Those who would fain see
the boom of Leonard Wood collapse under
| the weight of plutocracy's backing point
| to the Michigan acts as an example OF
| what a state victimised by the Newberry
| campaign fund controversy, will do for a
man like Hiram johnson who has praeti-
| cally no funds at all
/ And lastly they who have maintained
all along that the people of the United
States are against participation in the
league of nations are encouraged by the
vote given johnson who in all his speeches
/ denounced the league and treaty with OF
without reservations
ho IN, ! l.,
Michigan vote on the hesitant member,
of congress who must today vote on
ioint resolution declaring peace, there car
be little doubt Encouragement is derived
by them from the fact that in none o
the Republican primaries did an avoweC
exponent of the league of nations exhibit
himself and even A. Mitchell Palmer
q Democrat aspirant is quoted as havin!
| said in a campaign speech in Georgia tina
he favored Substantial reservations.
But no matter how much pleasure If
reconciable opponents of the peace treat,
may get out of the successful johnson
campaign in Michigan, there is much tina
is disquieting in il to the regular eonser
vative organization Of the Republican
rarty For Hiram johnson is radical
He fought alongside Senator LaFolette
II WHO by tue WIZ Dof1S UP successfully ~
Wisconsins primaries again. The tw,
men assailed the rich aud Insisted tina
they bear tie burdens of taxation. Hiram
Johnson is much. more sound in his view
then William Jennings Bryan but as
campaigner with personal magnetism i
his oratory. the two have many points i
I common. The East is inst dscovern
4 what manner of man is this Johnson VIII
managed to carry progressive state lik
/ California by 100000 while the regular RI
publican nominee for President lost til
state altogether. Hiram Johnson's TT
umph in eastern sections will send h
stock higher out West. Here is an e.
cerpt, for instance, taken from the writer
summary OF September 30th last on p'
itical observations made during the mont
of Sentember when accompanying Pres
j dent Wilson on his western trip:
= ''The people Of the West are texpectif