New-York tribune., 1920-04-30
Says Johnson
Plans to Head
A Third Party
Publisher of ''Los Angeles
Times" Declares Hearst
Is Supporting Movement
for a Bolt at Chicago
ForAnti-LeagueCamp
Asserts Senator Purposes to
Run independently if
Defeated III Conventio,,

Senator Hiram W. johnson is pre
pairing to head third party anti-league
OF nations movement in the event he
fails to win the Republican Presiden
tiai nomination, according to Harry
Chandler. of Los Angeles, publisher OF
The Times" of that city.
Mr.. Chandler. who is in daily com.
munication with his people on the Pa
cifc Coast said yesterday at the Hotel
Pennsylvania, just before leaving for
Chicago. that William R. Hearst is at
the bottom of the movement to make
johnson the nominee of the Chicago
:. convention, and that if johnson is nom.
mated Hearst will dominate him as
fully as he now dominates Mayor John
F. Hylan.
THE people may as we'll Get ready
to witness bolt headed by johnson
and Borah as soon as johnson is de-
feated at Chicago, as he will be-" said
MI Chandler. Hearst is boosting the
business along in all his papers. Hearst
Is after power. as he has been before.
He ran Tor Mayor of New York and was
defeated. Then he ran for Governor
OF New York and was defeated Then he
ran tor President as the candidate of
the Independence League and was de-
feated. Then he forced the nomination
OF Hylan IN this city and won. Hearst
is the power behind Hylan and he will
be the power behind Johnson if the Re-
publieans al Chicago should be foolish
enough to nominate him for President.
Johnson attracts the same sort of back
ing everywhere. In North Dakota. in
Detroit, In Chicago and, this week. in
Northern New Jersey-it is pretty
much the same wherever you find it.
During the war it very largely stood
lof Reputation of the war. Now that
the war is over it stands for ultra
radlcalism and the government iohs
with any kind of manipulation to oct in
Johnson Has Powerful Machine
Hearst plans either to run himself
ior Fresident or to get behind john
son or senator Reed In a third-party
.!oselheht. III johnson under these
circumstances wins the nomination in
the Chicago convention it will be tho
hrst time IN the history of American
poiitics that such thing has been
put over: johnson has well-manned
and well-oiled machine in California
dc has appointed about thirty news
paper publishers in the smaller cities
around the state to various commits
SONS, and every one of these papers
is whooping it up for him. Even With
this support and with help of the cor
pora5lons, which he used to fight, he
stands no better than an even chance
IN the California primaries next Tues
DAY: California is to l for some
klnd of league of nations. If the
Hoover people in California had had
little more time and reasonab ble
amount of funds with which to work
tney would have showed johnson un-
der with ease, and they may beat him
as 1t is. johnson and Hearst are club
ping their way along. as they always
nave done in the past. A recent in
cIdent IS Illuminating. When De
.sle Valera; President of the, Irish Re-
public was in California few
months ago the Hearst and johnson
people made ready to turn the citv
over to him. The people of Los An
geles would not stand for it, and told
the Mayor so. He decided to oppose
Hearst in. his scheme to welcome De
Valera. A Hearst agent went to the
Mayor of Los Angeles with De Valera
proclamation all written for him to
sign. The Mayor refused to sign it.
another agent of Hearst received the
same answer. Then Hearst's manager
.ook the proclamation and went over
% the office of the Mayor. who, by the
way, mad been elected by the aid of