Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-03

which the old Guard has in mind.
Senator johnson is one Of The bitter
enders in opposing The peace treaty.
On Friday Senator Penrose came
out in favor of Senator Philander c.
Knox for President on the Republican
ticket. Immediately the newspapers
that have been backing the Lodge
'Penrose reactionary group in the
States senate took up the cry
and. as The Sun and New York
Herald. said yesterday in the head
lines of what had every appearance
of being an inspired article from
Washington Knox now looms as a big
factor in the @. o. p. race.
A careful reading Of this article IN
The sun-Hersld shows a close re-
lationship between Knox and John
son.
At first thought this seems like a
very strange combination. Senator
Knox Is a highly trained corporation
lawyer. His home is in Pittsburgh
where he is closely associated with
the great steel industries. He is known
as one of the most conservative. re-
dictionary senators in the upper house
of congress. His whole career. prac-
tlcally has been built around big
business The trusts and everything
that Wall street stands for have not
a better friend in Washington than
Senator Knox.
on the other hand, we find Senator
johnson touring the country Boosting
of his trust-busting record in Califor-
mia; he opened up a veritable TRADE
against Wall street when in this city,
and he had done the same In every
industrial center where the represen-
|~tatives of labor have made VI most or
his audience and where the labor vote
is strongest. He poses as the working
mans friend and the bitter opponent
of anything that has the faint of a
corporation.
In spite Of his contrast, Knox and
johnson are known 10 be very close
in Washington.
ut Is q fact" says The Sun-Herald
article already referred TO, that he
(Knox) is the second choice of almost
all the Johnson people in Washington.
That is true OF the johnson group IN
the senate and of most Of them In the
House as we'll as outside congress-
Does 1t not seem a bit strange that
men who favor Johnson as their hrst
choice for President. with all that
johnson says he stands for In his hight
against Wall street and the none In
t~erests, should, as their second choice
to the other extreme and
Knox, a high class corporation lawyer
md a man of the most r~eactlonary
This Sun-Herald article goes on to
say that thomson and Knox are the
personal friends. Several
ago some persons talked to
Knox about his possible candl-
dacy. He laughingiy said that II any
bodv was more worried about the
nomination than he the Chicago con-
would be q love feast, ana
tben he entered on n little eniogy OF
II Johnson Is sincere in the views
which he expressed in his speech IN
this CITY and elsewhere in New Jer-
sey, /where he was appealing to tne
laboring man. how can such a re-
dictionary typ as Senator Knox is
known TO be enter on an eulogy of him
In connection with the presidential
nomination, especially when the public
ia given to understand that the Old
Guard would kill off johnson as a
presidential possibility If they could?
But lust as the Johnson k at
washington have declared for Knox
as their second choice, so. according
to The Sun-Herald (Which paper by
the way, is most friendly to the re-
dictionary Lodge-Penrose group In the
States s~enate) the Knox BOOM
Iers favor johnson for second place
their ticket. Partly because of
|personal relations between Knox ana
Johnson" the article says partly be-
lcause IT is a case of when East meets
West discussion of Knox as leader
lconnotes consideration of Johnson fof
second place. True, the article goes
lon to say that this could never be as
johnson would not consent to take
second place, yet the manner in whief
johnson, h supposed friend OF th'
working man. and Knox the friend o.
the corporations. are pulling together
is emphasized.
Now what is the meaning of al
this? AS we said before. politics Is
great game and II ever that game wa'
being played fast and furiously it Is IL
this present campaign
There is but one answer that we car
see. The Old Guard in the Republican
nartv &c obsessed with the one idea