Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-03
JOHNSON POURS
HOT SHOT INTO
HIS OPPONENTS
FOR NOM|NA ION
Californian Charges Money
Has Been Used Freely in
South Dakota in Order to
Influence Voters.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
IS GIVEN PLAYING
Says American Men and
Women Must Decide Who
Shall Police World; Pro-
fiteerS Branded Traitors,


Mitchell, s. D., March 2.-Sena-
tor Hiram w. Johnson of California
tonight opened fire upon his lead
ing opponents for the republican
nomination for the presidency,
charging that the expenditure of
money in the South Dakota pri-
mary is such as has seldom been
seen in any campaign in any state.
at is obvious" said the senator,
'that this state has become a tre-
mendous battle ground of the
wealth and power and financial
resources of my two leading oppo-
nents."
Major General Leonard Wood
and Governor Frank o. Lowden of
Illinois are the conceded leaders in
South Dakota,
seldom in any state has such an
extrayagant expenditure of money
in a primary campaign been SEEN
] cannot compete with them in this
kind of contest. 1t may be their
good fortune and my misfortune
that they can expend in all direc-
tions enormous sums of money and
that | cannot. | have back of me no
great corporation, no trust, no pow
erful financial interests. In this
commonwealth l am pitting what
ever of ability, of courage, of en-
ergy and of character God has
given me against the wealth, the
influence and the power of organ
lied politics and organized big bust
ness in politics. / am depending
here, as ever in my political con-
tests, upon the home-loving, God
fearing, free patriotic citizenship,
the inarticulate mass who make
this country great and insure its
future destiny"
In discussing the problems of the
high cost of living, for which, he
declared, no man has discovered a
panacea, Senator johnson de-
nounced the proflteer as a
traitor.
II cannot cure the high cost of
living" he said4 you cannot cure
it. But we can run the scale scien-
tifically from the original producer
to the ultimate consumer, and
when we ascertain where the pro-
fiteering is we will take the profi-
teer and treat him as the traitor he
is, and punish him as he ought to
be punished. Perhaps then we can
stop something of the high cost of
living"
The senator said it was 'impos-
sible to bury the American flag and
make the American people walk
over its grave without its becom-
ing an issue in the American cam
paign."
II do not care what politicians
may assert" he continued, the
issue is here right now, and the
issue will be with the American
people until they themselves de-
eide it. why should not American
men and women decide whether
the American youth shall police
the world or fight for boundary
lines in Europe and Asia? Who
else shall decide when our blood is
to be devoted to quarrels not our
own"
The senator said he had no apol-
ogies to make for talking about the
league of nations.
1.-The difficulty is that some of
our friends are willing that Europe
shall decide this issue, while we in
sist that America must decide il"
he asserted.
He said that he would go to any
length to prevent war, and that he
favored an International forum to
fix international opinion, but that
he would never subscribe to a pact
which binds American boys to go to
the four quarters of the globe to
settle foreipn diSD1,teS