The evening world., 1920-04-29
TOO MUCH JOHNSON
IN THE PRIMARIES
FOR SCARED COP.
Californian's Showing in New
Jersey ProveSa Stagger-
ing Blow.
HE LEADS IN PLEDGES.
big Business" Doesn't Want
Him or Hoover-Turns to
Lowden or Coolidge.
BIZ Martin Green.

DH MuTLtH UFeGHs
Senator Hiram Johnson Of Callfor-
mia is or in the lead Of the pack Of
candidates for the Republican nom
ination for President, with the end
OF the fight for Instructed delegates
only FIVE days away. The most prom
ineDt candidates and the number Of
delegates instructed for them are:
Johnson, Ill; Wood. 1O5; Lowden,
67i Harding, a.; Coolidge, 20.
The old-time Republican leaders Of
the East are still back on their heels,
staggering from the blow Johnson
landed in the New Jersey primaries.
The managers of Gen. Wood are SUI
fering from the after effects Of an
attack Of prophecy which seized them
CT Monday, when they claimed that
the Massachusetts primaries would
yield them 10 delegates pledged to
Wood, and the Jersey primaries
would add from 20 to % delegates
to the Wood ranks.
The Johnson pre-convention war
will wind up next Tuesday in Indi-
ana and California The next battle
fer delegates, in which the California
Senator is a strong factor, comes of
in Maryland next Monday. II the
Senator from the Pacific Coast makes
a good showing in Maryland and In
nA Ysv-iA
not be surprising if some of the aged
war horses of the @. o. p. would drop
dead In their tracks. They are very
much afraid Of johnson.
Not that they are considering the
prospect OF nominating the radical
Senator from California. The con-
servatives who control the RepubIi-
can organization would almost as
willingly think of nominating Will
lam Jennings Bryan, and when the
convention is called TO order in Chi
cago the conservatives will control a
majority of the 9S4 votes. Their
chief concern is about how they are
going to handle the effervescent can
.didate from the Golden Gate in case
he comes into the convention with
his State solidly behind him and
about 125 Instructed delegates be-
sides. They realize that in that
event he could come pretty close 70
sewing up the proceedings in CHI
cago, and although he has publicly
pledged himself to support the nom
inee of the convention, the old
timers, having in mind his course in
1912 and the part he played in the
I lefeat Of Charles L. Hughes in 1916,
have no confidence in his word.
NO PEACE FOR THE coNSER-
NATIVES.
without doubt Senator Johnson's
hackers in the convention will make
the most noise. Senator Borah Of
Idaho. alone, can outtalk any dozen
y ordinary Republican campaign ora
tors and he doesn't care much what
he says. Just at this time the john
son boom is looming up too bullIily
to permit the conservative leaders
calm and uninterrupted sleep of
nights.
There is just one way they can
dispose of Senator Johnson before
the convention and eliminate him
from the race for the nomination.
That is by concentrating all their
efforts on beating him in California,
for his managers admit that If he
cannot get the delegation from his
own state he might as well bury his
aspirations so far as the Republican
National Convention is concerned.
Probably by exerting in California
all the pressure Of power and money
possessed by the national Republican
machine they could submerge John
son, but the prospect makes the con-