Imperial Valley press., 1920-04-26

HOOVER STRONG IN
IMPERIAL VALLEY.
EXPECT BIG VOTE
Secretary S. A. Lindaner of
"Wake HOOUer President"
Clue Amazed at HOOCer
Sentiment after Touring the
Talley.
(By H. l.. Loud.)


. has been registered at the Barbara
Worth hotel since Tuesday and who
has in the meantime canvaSSed I'M
perial county in behalf of the Hoover
primary ticket has returned to his
Los Angeles headquarters, 425 Union
Oil building. After conferences
throughout this district with H. L..
Loud. Mrs. B. G. Walker, Attorney
Burritt S. Allen. 7. ID. Mccall, L. j..
Thomas, Casey Abbott, Attorney Sher-
man Anderson, c. t. Wardlaw, Major
Dunn, w. H. Best and other Hoover
leaders throughout the valley he eN-
presses great satisfaction with the
prospect of a record breaking vote for
Hoover, Notwithstanding the fact that
this part of California has always
been looked upon as Johnson strong
hold in the past.
Il find that devotion to the memory
of the gifted Jack" Eshelman ac-
counts largely for what johnson SEN
timent remains in the Imperial val
lev" says Mr.. Lindauer. ''As erst-
while supporter of the senator, can
quite understand the source of this
sentimental factor. But. just as the
bulk of the old johnson support has
deserted him in his present day eX-
Icursions into un-American and des-
tructive political apostacy, so Jack
Eshelman, were he living, would be
found combating the senator's un-
worthy pretensions of today. Is 1t not
significant that the men and women
who were more responsible for John-
sons gubernatorial record that John-
son himself are to be found fighting
him today The founders and animal
ing spirits of the Lincoln Roosevelt
League, the men and women VINO
drafted the laws and conducted the
Johnson campaigns IN California
thos who kicked the Southern Pa
.cifc machine out of politics, the Stlm-
sons, the Dicksons, the Rowells. the
Heneys. the Russ Averys, the Ianous,
the Grahams, the leagues, the mrs
Frank Gibbons, the Mrs. Bertha Caoles
in fact. all save a few johnson or
fee holders and ex-office holders-are
today laboring to rid the country OF
the man who has proven untrue u
himself and his claims to broad-vl-
stoned craftsmanship and political SIM
cerity. You don't observe Chester
Rowen, Governor Stephens, Mrs.
Florence Collins Porter and other
notable ex-Johnson devotees shouting
their support of him from the mousse
tops today. do you? And where are
the Johnson organs of the days when
he rendered his boasted services as
governor? Where, for example are
the Bulletin" DAILY News" and
a Iabor Clarion" of San Francisco, the
Sacramento Union" and the Los An
eeles Express" save on the Hoover
firing line. battling for one best repre-
sentative of sorely needed abilities and
character? Should this not serve to
arouse one time Johnson supporters
to the change which has come over
their idol with gigantic feet of clay
and lungs of infinite capacity? On
the other hand we find in the johnson
support financial and political-yes
even on his delegation, clemens
which only recently hated and de-
nounced the politically agile senator
with vitrolic expletives scarcely less
unbridled than the terms in which ne
berated them. There is Michael II. DE
Young, concerning whom Senator
Johnson thundered in 1916, When
ever YOU find city to be plllaged, q
community to be robbed, man to Dc
stabbed in the back, there YOU VII
find Michael H. DeYoung, or words
to this mellifluous effect. Slmllal
compliments has he paid to Wm. II
Crocker. Senator Frank Flint (onct
an odious Southern Pacific henchman.
Have these leopards changed then
spots or has Hiram Johnson? why
is it that every pro-German, ever!
Hearstite, every Sein Feiner, ant
every destructive political influence
who place the interests of alien lands
above those of their own country are
TODAY merged under the banner o,
Hiram johnson? How does the latte
reconcile his claim TO the Roosevelt
tradition with his acceptance OF tn
Hearst sanction and the Hearst fees
Roosevelt, YOU know, sent his secre
tarv of state, Elihu Root, into tn
New York campaign of 1906 TO de
nounce candidate Hearst as the IN
spiration and abcttor of Mckinley
assassin. This made Hearst the. on
loser on the democratic state tlcke
of that year. No, "Jack' Eshelmar
were he living, would be found toda
sustaining the spotless candidacy O
Herbert Hoover. That's where 20
find George Roeding, head OF the ga
ifornia Farmers, c. c. league. pres
dent of the California State WalnU
Growers association; e. Harold Pow
ell, prohibition CONGRESSMAN hanoal
labor leaders like Yarrow and tn
president of the San Francisco Labt
Council, and all Of the best element
in California citizenship.
81 have been amazed by the wild
spread Hoover sentiment apparel
everywhere in the Imperial Vale
Flourishing clubs have sprung into e,
istence over night under the gener
direction of II. l.. Loud and Mrs. B.
Walker. Every precinct will be a
lively canvassed and manned on vo
ing day. The women voters ha'
shown an especially strong support
the Hoover ticket, here as elsewhei
"Senator Johnson does not dare
campaign in this state as he used
do. The contrast between his met
ings today and in the old days wor
he 40 great as to break the heart
; his machine. He cannot. he dares n
claim credit for woman's suffrage
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