The Washington herald., 1920-05-30

lhls Is Its substance:
Hoover Facts Outlined.
The LOO make Hoover Presi-
dent clubs working individually and
voluntarily throughout the country
believe that Mr.. Hoover will be
nominated becaase:
The rank and file want him.
Ihey want him because more of
them in more States and counties
In the country know him and have
worked with him than any other
public man.
They like his record: they know
exactly where he stands. They
know him for the son of an Ameri-
can blacksmith. the boy who earned
his way as day laborer in the
/ mines: as extra help in the office
as full fledged mining engineer; as
manager of mines; as manager OF
vast metallurgical works; as the
man who knows the human side of
life so we'll that he could always
pay his men bebtter. house them
better than the average around him
and yet make the properties en-
trusted to him pay, and never had
a strike. And then. they know him
as the man who placed the Ameri-
can flag where it belongs in the
hearts of the lowIy and oppressed
in the whole world-emblem of pro-
lection wherever Democracy sought
way out from militarism and
autocracy.
Hoover stands for service. devo-
tion to right thinking, liberalism.
and he does not do it with words
His record is deeds.F
johnson Forces SPECIFIC.
The Johnson headquarters are
more specific. II is fair to note
that for practical work as well as
for spaCiousness and apparent in
difference to expense the Johnson
headquarters rank first. Their
proclamation takes the form of n
statement of California business
men concerning the achievements
of Hiram Johnson as governor. 1t
is too long for complete quotation
but some excerpts are worth while:
The public utility corporations
in California would not repeal the
Johnson utilities act today il they
had it in their power to do so.
Tells Of Achievements.
"A blue-sky law corporate. Sc
curities act. wisely administered,
has given strength to the securities
of Californa corporations.
The workmen's compensation
act has been of inestimable benefit
both to employers and employees by
eliminating the delays, the hazards
and the waste of litigation. The
large employers of labor in Cali
fornia would resist any attempt to
restore the old cut-throat system
of personal injury litigation.
The bank act enacted under
Gov. Johnson. and exactingly en-
forced during his administration,
we regard as the soundest banking
law in the United States"
Caters to Business Men.
And so on. A shrewd observer
running through the Johnson state
ment with me remarked that il
was clearly designed to dispel the
idea that the Johnson r8dicalism
could DE in any way hurtful to es-
tablishHd business conditions
have chosen these statements
for quotation and comment because
Wood, johnson and Lcwden rank at
the head of the cer6i6ates having
pledged delegates while all the in
cies throughout the nation have put
Hoover among those of whom the
masses of the people are talking
most.
Lobbies Have Buried Wood.
In the gossip of the lobbies Wood
is thought to lie done for. Already
the partisars of other candidates
are beginning to speculate upon in
herltance of his raiment. The an
that Gov. Allen will
present the generals name to the
Is very disquieting to
these spectators for the Kansan
is a spellbindcr who is likely to
make more carital for himself than
for his hero out of his eulogy. But
if the Wood managers are planning
20 deliver over their strength to
Allen, they are likely to he disap-
pointed. II is a following not to be
en- mass, and many have
already indicated others as their
second choice
Neither can the johnson force be
delivered tc legatee in bulk. As
have all he can do to hold his fol-
the delegates non1inally instructed
for him arc his followers in fact.
While there has been an eident
effort on the part Of the Lowden
manager to coddlc up to the direc-
tors of the johnson campaign 1t Is
not likely that much profit will ac.
crue to them.
Dark Horses stin Crop Up.
Under. such conditions it is not
that rumors of new
dark horses and curious combina-
tions of interest are heard hourly.
A few days ago Knox and Johnson
was the combination widely dis
cussed. As an essay for mixing oil
and water IT could scarcely be
beaten except by Democratic
ticket of Edwards and Bryap--al-
though in that case the first in
gredient would not be oil. Today
the Hughes talk was most general
perhaps by recollec-
ton Of the part Frank Hitchcesk