The Washington times., 1920-04-29
.BOE.A TO SPEAK IN
I I0h SONS BEHALF
daho Senator to Make Princi-
pal ADDRESS At Baltimore
Rally Saturday.

BALTIMORE, April 29.-Johnson
haders. elated over the success OF
their meeting In the Fifth Regiment
Armory Tuesday night and believing
Il demonstrated a swing or hepuo
iiean voters 10 senator johnson, have
arranged ANOTHER big meeting lot
Saturday night at the Lyric.
They expect that to be the nnal
broadside that will break down the
organizations lineup for Gen. Leon
ard Wood The primaries VIII be
held Monday.
United States Senator Borah OF
Idaho, one OF the foremost orators
in Congress, will deliver the princi-
pal speech. The Johnson people say
il will be a hot one. And II would
be strange IL IL were not, for hot
speeches are Senator Borahs
speciality.
He is the man who opened nre
on the Wood campaign in the Senate.
alleging that great sums OF money
were being put up and spent In MS
behalf. Politicians say the serious
rsyerses to the Wood candidacy be-
gan soon after. ...,
Expected to Talk Finances.
In some quarters It Is believed Sem
ator Borah intends to cut loose on
the money end OF the opposition to
Johnson when he speaks here. and,
IL is said that IL he does he will talk
not only about the financial backing
Wood has nationally. but about the
i line up In this state of the financial
hackers behind the general. Some
politicians expected Senator Johnson
TO do that In his speeches. 1t is
thought Senator Borah, not being
candidate himself, may feel free to
talk more plainly in public on what
the Johnson people are saying quiet
ly than did Senator johnson.
1t Is not likely the Wood people
will have any big meetings. State
Chairman Galen L. TAFT, who is man
aging the Wood campaign in the
state, said last night he had re-
ceived no advices that the general
would speak here. 1t Is almost GER
tain he will not, and unless he does
the Wood people are expected to hold
only small ward and precinct meet
ings.
Chairman TAFT is making his head
quarters at the Emerson, and will
spend the balance of the week in the
city. He reports progress all along
the line, when asked about the Wood
campaign. Yesterday he announced
that former Senator George l.. Well
ington, of Allegany county, had de-
cIared for Wood, and that former
Congressman "Tom" Parran, in from
southern Maryland, had said that sec
tion was in line.
Cites r. RS Ideals.
John Philip Hill, Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Third dis
trict a lieutenant in the Weller
jackson organization and secretary OF
the Wood campaign organization,
speaking at the Third Ward Repub-
Iican Club, on Washington Boule!
ward. quoted Roosevelt as saying pub
lie servants should say what they
mean. and then denounced Senator
johnson for saying nothing about
prohibition, woman's suffrage, and
Government ownership.
These" said Colonel Hill, "are
three vital, present questions, and in
the words of Theodore Roosevelt, the
people of Maryland are entitled to
know where Senator Johnson stands
today on them. We knew a short
time ago how he stood on some OF
them. He voted for the prohibition
amendment and he favored perma-
nent Government ownership of rail-
roads. l do not know how he stood
on suffrage. How Does he stand to-
day on these immediate needs of the
present. as Roosevelt would call
them.
AT the armory last night Senator
johnson lost his chance. Three vital
and fair questions had been put up to
him. He failed to answer. He talk
ed a great deal about my American
ISM but his silence on what that
word means to him will prevent him
hereafter from posing as the sue
cessor to Theodore Roosevelt"