The Winslow mail., 1920-04-16
JOHNSON'S PLUTO
CRATIC hackers

torial utterances which appeared in
that paper on the morning of April l
was an April Fool Day joke or was
intended to be taken seriously, de-
liberate attempt permanently to de-
ceive.
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 nomina-
ton by the Republican convention
and his election by the people.
They know that the publisher of
the Chronicle, M. H. de Young, is
candidate for delegation to the Chica-
go convention on ticket pledged to
Senator Johnson until Johnson him
self releases him; but Mr.. De Young
has been a publisher of the Chronicle
for a great many years and it is not
easy to reconcile the above quotation
with the following editorial utterance
of the Chronicle which appeared on
August 29, 1915.
Hiram Johnson has for six years
past assailed all who woud not ac-
cept his dictation with coarse per-
sonal abuse, embellished by rich
vocabulary of vitruperation acquired
in the criminal courts. And while
accusing all who do not bow down
and worship him 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 en-
ployed in his service some of the viii
est political scalawags who ever dis
graced the state, and has sought to
profit by their political skullduggery
Does not Hiram Johnson absolute
ly control Ameda county politics in
the name Of purity? And is it not
as politically rotten as local politics
can be?
There was never a ranker politi-
cal humbug than Hiram Johnson
Hateful in spirit, coarse in his na-
ture, vile in his language, tricky in
his politics, he has for years devoted
himself, through subservient Legis-
latures, to such manipulation of oul
election laws as might enable him
with the aid of the machine which lis
has created, to perpetuate the fraud
which he is now attempting.
Four years ago Senator Johnson
was equally vindictive in his denun-
citation of Mr.. De Young. In tn.
closing address of his senatorial
campaign he said:
Now you need make no mistaka
about it. There is no room for w
H. Crocker, 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 insincerity. He
has always had an ambition to enter
the diplomatic service; and it is pos
sible that he holds from Senator
Johnson a promise of an appointment
as Ambassador to France, il case
Johnson wins. And foF Senator
Johnson to select as one of his Cal
ifornia delegates a man whom he has
denounced as pirate from enc end
of the state to the other in every one
of his former campaigns is evidence
of a political deal ranker than any
other attempted in California in a
generation.
De Young, however, is but one of
the nine jolly millionaires who oc-
cupy front seats on the band wagon
carrying the Johnson primay dele
gates an flying the banner, Friends
of the Peepul" Nine milionaires on a
delegation of twenty-six from a sin
gle state would be enough to blow
the ordinary candidate out of the
water. But, Of course, ther are
good millionaires and bad million
aires, and we must not assume that
the state was thoroughly curriel, that
only nine good ones were found and
that they were promptly seized for
the Johnson delegation. Wonder
what those Nonpartisan Leaguers
and Plumb Plan Leaguers thing of
it, however?
Here are the nine, each of whom
is millionaire and whose combined
wealth is estimated at $15OOO0 ,0O0: :
W. H. Crocker, M. H. De Young, F.
P Flint, George l. Cochran, John B.
Miller, Herbert Fleischacker, Joseph
r. Knowland, James Rolph and Mrs