New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-24

The Pcepurs Band Wagon
Locally Observed
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From The Los Auoetcs Times


Chronicle" are reported to be mysti-
fed as to whether the following edi-
torial utterance which appeared in that
paper on the morning Of April was
an April Fool Day joke or was intended
to be taken seriously, q deliberate
attempt permanently to deceive:
"The tremendous enthusiasm with
which Senator johnson is received by
audiences Of the great cities Of the
East is being accepted by the politi-
cally wise as assuring his nomination
by the Republican convention and his
election by the people"
They know that the publisher Of "The
Chronicle" M. II. de Young, is candi-
date for delegate to the Chicago con-
vention on ticket pledged to Senator
johnson until Johnson himsef releases
him; but Mr.. de Young has been a
publisher of "The Chronicle" for a great
many years and it is not easy to recon-
cile the above quotetion with the fol-
lowing editorial utterance Of "The
Chronicle" which appeared on August
20, 1916:
Hiram johnson has for six years
past assailed all who would not accept
his dictation with coarse personal
abuse, embellished by rich vocabulary
of vituperation acquired in the criminal
courts. And while accusing all who do
not bow down and worship t. IN Of
about all the crimes named in the
statute book and proclaiming himself
to be the apostle and expounder of all
the virtues which entail to sainthood.
he has employed in his service some
OF the vilest political scalawags who
ever disgraced the state, and has
sought to profit by their political skull
duggery.
docs not Hiram Johnson absolutely
control Alameda County politics in the
name of purity? And is it not as polit-
1cally rotten as local politics can be Z?
There was never ranker political
humbug than Hiram johnson. Hateful
IN spirit, coarse in his nature, vile in
his language, tricky in his politics, he
has for years devoted himself, through
subservient legislatures, to such manip-
ulation Of our election laws as might en-
able him, with the aid of the machine
which he has created, to perpetuate the
fraud which he is now attempting"
Four years ago Senator johnson was
equally vindictive in his denunciation
OF Mr.. de Young. In the closing
address Of his Senatorial campaign he
said:
"Now you need make no mistake
about 1t. There is no room for w. H.
Croker, Michel Henri de Young and
myself in the same political house"
For Mr.. de Young to assume to be
sincere in his advocacy of johnson for
President at the present time is to
convict himself Of insncerity. He has
always had all ambition to enter the
diplomatic service; and it is possible
that he holds from Senator johnson q
promise OF an appointment as Am
bassador to France, in case johnson
wins. And for Senator Johnson to
select as one of his California dele
gates man whom he has denounced
as pirate from one end of the state
to the other in every one Of his former
campaigns is evidence of political
deal ranker than any other attempted
In California in a generation.
DE Young, however, is but one Of the
nine jolly millionaires who occupy front
seats on the band wagon carrying the
johnson primary delegates and flying
the banner, "Friends Of the Peepul."
Nine millionaires on delegation of
twenty six from single state would
be enough to blow the ordinary candi-
date out of the water But, of course.
there are good millionaires and bad
mllllonalres, and we must assume that
the state was thoroughly curried, that
only nine good ones were found and
that they were promptly seized for the
johnson delegation. Wonder what tn ose
Nonpartisan Leaguers and Plumb Plan
Leaguers think about it, however?
Here are the nine, each of whom is a
millionaire and whose combined wealth
is estimated at $4,000 1000 W. H.
Croker, M. H. de Young, Frank p.
fllnt, George I. Cochran, John B. Miller,
Herbert Fleishhacker, Joseph r. Know
land, James Rolph and Mrs. Charles
r. McClatchy. There arc six others
on the list who have a Bradstreet rat
ing above 100000 each.
With the johnson delegation cours-
ing along on highway paved with
gold Il California, however, it is puz-
Fling to listen to the howl Senator
Johnson Is setting up in the East about
the millionaire hackers" of General
Wood.
Learned Too Late