New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11

it is immaterial at this time. For ii
there ever was any such deal it's all
of now. If James D. Phelan carries
California on the second day of next
November he will do so, l am con-
WINGED, in spite of the best efforts
Hiram Johnson and all his friends can
put forth.
This region west Of the Mississippi
hopes and expects to furnish the next
President of the United States, after
Harding gets through. Hiram John
son hopes to be that President. He
is young enough and vigorous enough
to wait, il need be, till 1928. Senator
Johnson knows that in all probability
he will need the votes of the men
and women who now rally under the
banner Of the Republican party if he
finally lands in the White House.
Senator Johnson probably knows
also that Wadsworth in New York, Wat
son in Indiana. Jones in Washington,
Reed Smoot in Utah and some other Re-
pubiicans are having hard fights for re-
election to the Senate, and that in con-
sequence there is a possibility that La
Toilette and DR.. Laid. candidate of the
Nonpartisan League in North Dakota,
may hold the balance Of power in the
next United States Senate
Suppose, then. that johnson yanks
Phelan (Dem) out of the United States
Senate and sends Shortridge, a staunch
day or helps tremendously to make
safe working majority for the Grand
Old Party! Wouldn't three rousing
cheers go up from the threats of Re-
publicans in every state in the Union
for Hiram Johnson?
Two Kinds of Gratitude
There are those who say there are
two varieties of gratitude. One variety
is known as "lively sense Of favors
yet to come" and the other is the plain,
old fashioned kind. If johnson is
swayed by either kind, and probably,
like NEST mortals, he is swayed by both,
he will heartily support Shortridge for
spring when Herbert Hoover's friends
sought to win the delegates from Cali
fornia for Hoover for the Republican
nomination for President against John
son, Shortridge, very eloquent and
effective stump speaker, stalwart Re-
publican who had opposed Johnson on
many q hard-fought field, jumped out
and stumped the Pacific slope for John
son, helping nightly to win a smash
ms victory for him which made John
son a very formidable candidate for
President.
A Republican State
Finally, when it is ali said and done,
California is Republican state. Fur
thermore, it is more vitality interested
in a good, old-fashioned Republican
tariff than any state l know anything
about. The growers of citrus fruits
and their name is legion in Califor-
nia-feel that a high tariff on citrus
them. Owing to the heavy increase
in wages and the still heavier increase
in freight rates in the United States,
these growers contend that, without
regular, old-fashioned Mckinley tariff
they cannot compete with the fruit
from European countries, where labor
is so much cheaper and the cost of
irrigating land is SO much less.
So bear in mind, you folks back East,
if you insist on leaving the tariff low
so that lemons and oranges from Italy
and elsewhere can flood the Eastern
markets, you may get your oranges and
folks won't be able to buy your East
ern automobiles and shoes and clothing.
You can't have your cake-and eat it,
too! So there you are.
Not so surprising, therefore, that
100000 voters enrolled here last month
as Republicans, while only 100000
voters enrolled under the Democratic
banner. Small wonder, perhaps, that
the next State Senate in California
will number less than ten Democrats
and nearly, il not quite, thirty Repub-
licans. Only nineteen registered Dem
ocrats have been nominated for the
State Assembly. and, there are eighty
Assembly districts in the state.
In some of the districts the Republic
can candidates won the Democratic in
dorsement, under this very liberal Cali
fornia direct primary law, while in
others there were no Democratic can
didates. While Democrats may have
been nominated in many districts by
having their names written in," the
experience of recent years proves that
a candidate who has not sufficient sup
port to get petition circulated for
citement in the general election in
November.
No Women Nominated
Curiously enough, although there
were bakers dozen of women among
INC Seaiul ualcS AoI Vic AeR 10 tuIc, iol
one of them seems to have landed a
nomination.
The amazing difference between the
total enrollments of the two major
parties (the Republican enrolment ex-
ceeded the Democratic enrolment in
the state by 500,000D was caused in
part by Democrats-mostly members
of labor unions who wished to vote for
Kent for United States Senator in the
Republican Notwithstanding as Re-
publicans.
In California it Ia necessary under
the direct primary law for the voter
simply to indicate his or her party
preference" and this "enrollment"
can be made up to within thirty days
of the primary election. But the best
opinion holds that not over 100000
Democrats so enrolled, so that, even if
they all finally vote for Cox and Phe-
Ian, which is by no means certain, the
Democratic candidate will still be some
$1,000 to 100000 short of carrying the
state
Right here it should be stated that
there is considerable sentiment in ia
vor of the League of Nations in south
ern California. II found voice through
the powerful Los Angeles Times and
other influential dailies. But there is
absolutely no indication that it is suf-
fciently insistent on having Article x
adopted substantially as Wilson word
ed it to give Cox reasonable expecta-
ton of carrying the state.
1t is pointed out. in connection with
the United States Senatorship fight
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