The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-21
JOHNSON COMES
OUT IN PLEA FOR
HARDING VOTES
Senator Sets at Rest Ru-
morS by Declaring I'm
qualified Support.
PREDICTS A LANDSLIDE
Crowd Cheers DenunciatiOn
of League and Candi-
dates Attitude. s
SERVES NOTICE OF TRUCE
Speaker Not in Accord With
Some G. 0. P. Leaders, but
Stands With Nominee.
SERVES NOTICE OF TRUCE


United States Senator Hiram w.
Johnson Of California opened his East
ern campaign in the Hobokeu High
School last night with a speech in
which he came out unreservedly for
the election OF Senator Harding and
/ predicted that the Republican nominee
! for President would defeat Gov. Cox
by the largest majority recorded in
modern times.
81 have been through a great many
| States of the Union" said Senator
/ Johnson land l tell you that IL fistic
rules applied to this contest between
Harding ara Cox the police would
have to stop it, because it is too brutal.
1t is no longer a contest. 1t is land
slide for Harding such as has never
before been seen. in the United States.
Harding will receive the greatest vote
in the history of modern politics"
Senator Johnson's references to Sena-
tor Harding's- qualifications for the
/ Presidency and particularly his en-
phatfc Endorsement of the Senator's
stand on the I.eagu of Nations issue,
aroused tremendous enthusiasm among
the thousands of.men and women voters.
who filed every seat in the high school,
jammed t4e aisles, perched on the win
dows. and milled in the streets outside
the building
Leads TorchliGht Parade.
The Californian was greeted with a
tremendous burst of applause when he
reached the school in the van of an old
fashioned torchlight parade, which es-
corted him from his hotel. When he
appeared on the platform and urged
every man and woman present to cast
a vote for senator Harding the applause
continued for several minutes
Senator Johnson's speech last night
left no doubt whatever as to his atti-
tude toward the candidacy of Senator
Harding. = 1t was so vivid and so en-
phatic, and his Endorsement OF the Re-
publican nominee was so typically
Johnsonesque that It effectually dis
posed Of the vague rumors that recently
have been current to the effect that his
support of Senator Harding was only
'-iukewarm. Old time politicians declared
after the meeting that they never had
heard a speaker give such hearty and
unqualified. Endorsement to candidate
rs Senator Johnson gave to Senator
Harding. Throughout his speech he
spoke OF the Senator as "our candidate"
and time and again he urged his hearers
to vote for, the Ohioan.
Senator Harding said Senator
Johnson. deserves and should have tn ;
support Of every American and the sup
port of every one who believes in the
independence of America
Senator Johnson quoted from Senator
Harding's speech of acceptance and from
the Republican platform to illustrate his
contention that the Republican candidate
Is committed TO absolute rejection of the
league, and declared that these utter
ances met with his approval and would
have his entire support. Every attack
made by Senator Johnson upon the
league, and particularly upon Article X.
of the league covenant, was enthusiastic
cally applauded by the crowd. The crowd
was especially joyful when Senator
Johnson said that the League must be
buried and never dug up again.
1.-THE men and the newspapers who
pretend to be friends of Senator Harding
and who assert that he is to take this
country into the League of Nations do
him a distinct disservice and pay him a
sorry compliment" Senator Johnson con-
tinued. 81 speak Of course solely from
the public utterances Of our candidate.
and these utterances make plain beyond
cavil that when Senator Harding is
President he win not take the United
States into the league.
League Supreme BIunder.
"He characterizes the league as a
military alliance which menaces peace /
and threatens all freedom. He called
1t the supreme blunder and asserted
that he would lead America free. indie
pendent and self-reliant. but Offering
friendship to all the world He in
stanced the war between Poland and
Russia as indicating what we would
have been let IN TOR. in the language of
Secretary Of State Lansing, but for the I
action OF the Senate and this Polish
Russian war he said brought home 10
US the danger OF committing ourselves
In advance to causes that we knew
not Of
Again he referred to America as n
member Of the league as 'one in n pitt
ful minority among many states In
merged world government and in I
cluded himself among those who had .
opposed what we sincerely regarded as
betrayal OF our own country in the
interest Of others He deprecated his
vote for reservations and said that con-
ditions had now changed. Experience
Marlborough enlightenment.
II am unable to understand the in
tellectual processes which can misin-
terpret or misconstrue these words, and
do not appreciate the friendship OF In
dividuals who. In the teeth of declara-
lions describing the league as n mill
tary alliance menacing peace and
threatening all freedom. the supreme
blunder. obviously impotent, resting
upon the power OF might not OF right
will still insist that tho words are
meaningless and that Senator Harding
intends something else than he says