The Washington times., 1920-06-10
why the Financial Powers Now
in Control at Chicago Oppose
johnson for President

The financial powers Of the United States present
In full control of the Republican National Convention at
Chicago shown the retention Of Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge the permanent chairman and the selection OF
Senator Watson of Indiana chairman of the important
platform committee. :
the s84 delegates can be held in subsction today
and tomorrow these financial powers will make platform
and choose candidate exactly to their liking They Will
go far they dare in making negative stand pat
platform today and in naming for President tomorrow
trustworthy reactionary.
The financial powers opposing johnson know that ne is
not q red radical
They know he was elected Governor of California in
1910 by $4,000 plury reelected in 1914 by 18S6o5 pu-
r and elected United States Senator by the unpre
cedented majority of 15 the day that Wood
row Wilson, Democrat carried California by only SITS.
They know that Governor Johnson's rise in California
was due to his successful fight to put corrupt
out Of politics They know as Governor ne the
same courage and determination in putting l. w. W..
anarchists of business he did in putting predatory
corporations out of politics.
The supreme financial powers in the United States
control the Chicago convention know that there
millions of progressive voters like Johnson In both the
Republican and Democratic parties
They know that these voters looking with earnest
longing both either of the old parties to give them
candidate whom they can trust
The qualities of courage force, independence THE
POWER TO THINK AND ACT STRAIGHT which won the
best well the most people to his support during his two
terms Governor of California, made successful oppos
ton to him by any by any party impossible. The
qualities have made him in two short years leader
in the Senate
Then why do the combined financial powers of the
United States control of the convention oppose him?
Because they know by experience in California that he
will do what he and what he this in his speech
at Chicago Auditorium Monday night:
'There radicals in country There the few
who preach the overthrow of by force and
lence and whom would all make feel the heavy hand Of
he law Every normal American would drastically deal
with these We would make them realize that government
is supreme in this land and would put them where they
could not affect government or njure organized society
But there is another class of radicals too who breed
the blatant and who because of their and their
influence their cunning and their entrenched positions
far more dangerous.
II would deal in like with both classes; not
only would employ the power of the State against the
extremist of the soap box preaching overthrow of govern
ment by force and violence but with equal vgor I'd
endeavor to reach and suppress and punish the radical of
great wealth and power who endangers the Republic by
cunning and dishonest practices and nsdously undemnes
society by illegitimate exploitation"
As to the League of Nations-Presdent Wilson's plan
of World Government by international committee of nine
dipomatists- sitting in EuropJohnson put his
whole platform ip fortyfve words at the Chicago
meeting:
''This nation has always needed humanity's call and
civilizations cry and shall not to heed All that
we insist is when the crisis you decide and
decide and the American people decide, and that
European nation decide for u.s."
The inperalstic money powers that seek control of
world trade and politics afraid of what patriotic
American like Johnson will fail to do for suffering Europe
if he becomes President of the United States.
They are afraid of what he WILL do to them.
M NJ