The Washington times., 1920-04-22

of the Republican party, has rapid
ly become the keystone of the Re-
publican arch.
If the Republicans pull out that
Keystone the arch will fall on their
heads.
johnson is the kind to 60 to the
Chicago Republican convention
himself and talk as q delegate. He
! is no hypocrite, pretending to be
modest violet.
What would the delegates reply
If johnson said: Right in this
State forty-five thousand Repub-
lican voters wrote in my name on
the ballot, although the Repub-
lican machine left it out. That
never happened before. Roosevelt
himself once had his name written
twelve thousand times; it was
called a miracle.
"The voters Of this country have
already nominated me. You do
the same, il you don't want to see
me elected on an Independent
ticket"
|. Johnson's victory in Nebraska,
his latest, giving him more votes
by thousands than any of them,
including the great Nebraskan,
William J. Bryan himself, more
than Wood and Pershirig combined,
ought to teach even Republican
politicians something.
Al member of the Cabinet said
to this writer last Thursday: The
/, Rerublicans will never nominate
johnson. Ten minutes in the
cIoakroom of the Senate would
make that clear to you. Hall .
minute within ten feet Of Senator
Penrose would prove it to you"
, Republicans that the corpora
.tions control don't want johnson,
of course. But even corporation
Republicans sometimes have to
swallow what they don't like.
The next interesting question
Is what will California, Mt the
primary, do for the native born
fighter who has gone cOnquering
J. through the land. How big q ma
jority will California pile up for
the man that represents so admir-.
ably CalifOrnia's fighting spiriti
California, apparently, Is to have
her first President She will
want to give that man "send-
6ff' worthy of CalifOrnia's gen.
erosity and loyalty to her own.
johnson had $4,000 votes writ
ten in" by voters in Illinois.
Hoover got about two hundred.
What will johnson get in Cali
fornia?
The allies are fixing up bill
for Germany. Sixty billion marks
is the amount suggested. The
original plan was to find out how
much Germany had altogether,
then let her know how much she
must pay. Sixty billion marks
under ordinary conditions would
be fifteen billion dollars, fifteen
times as much as Bismarck took
from France after 1870. At the
present rate of exchange it would
be only a little more than one
billion.
England, apparently, has decided
that the thing to do is to have
Europe go back to business, stop
counting German marks and begin
production.
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You remember the scapegoat Of
old, the animal with the unpleasant
job.
All the sins of the people were
loaded on his shaggy back and he
was sent galloping off into the
wilderness.
! The United States Government
has selected and branded a first
: class goat, the American common
/, soldier. .
He was to have a bonus, about
s1.25 a day, for giving up his job,
risking his life and working for
nothing, while those left at home
got the highest pay on record.
But, IL you please, the soldier
can't have his money because there
is in the treasury a deficit of three
and one-third billions, and soon 1t
will be four billions.
There was plenty Of money for
aircraft rascals, plenty for ship
ping board spenders, including the
accurately and euphoniously named
Hog Island crowd. There were
untold billions for the profteers.
But IL seems there isn't dollar
for the scapegoat that wore khaki.
He will kindly gallop Oft into the
wilderness without his bonus.
But he will return, Of course, on
Nr.,.a.,,hcr Q to vote natrioticallY