The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-19
HIRAM JOHNSON
IS OPPOSED FOR
DENOMINATION
His ote On Four Power Treaty
Used Against Him - Warm
Fight In California

Sacramento, Cal, August 19.-(By
the Associated Press)-Vigorous cam
paigning by senatorial and guberna-
torial candidates was the feature of
the weeks preceding California's pri-
mary election, which will be held on
August 20 and at which candidates
will be nominated for complete state
ticket and for all county offices.
Virtual last-minute injection into
the pre-primary campaign of a re-
publican opponent against United
States Senator Hiram w. Johnson
who had been expected to have a
clear field so far as the republican
nomination was concerned, aroused
old-time political antagonisms. Sen
ator Johnson's opponent was Charles
C.. Moore, San Francisco engineer and
president of the Panama Pacific Inter
national Exposition at San Francisco
in 1915.
Moore's candidacy was announced
after a meeting in San Francisco of
republican leaders opposed to John
son, and following the announcement
it became apparent that the anti
Johnson campaign would be based on
the latter's opposition to the four
power treaty.
Early in the campaign reports were
circulated that Moore had the backing
of the administration of President
Harding and that it was fight of
progressive" as represented by
Moore, against a man who was "at
aIf ir1ic OF n
tion. Later reports from Washington
said the president had decided to take
no part in the California senatorial
fight. 1t also was declared by Senator
Johnson's friends that aside from his
vote against the four power treaty.
Johnson was a firm supporter Of the
president.
Senator johnson returned to Cali
fornia and was prompt to take up
the fight. In his opening speech to
the "home folks" he declared that it
was "the same old fight against the
same old gang'-men who opposed
him when he was governor and fought
the Southern Pacific railroad company
and other corporations. Senator
Johnson also declared that he had re-
turned 'to the best protected state in
the Union" so far as the tariff was
concerned. He declared that he had
opposed the four power treaty because
he was opposed to "entangling alli-
ances" and because of the Japanese
immigration issue, which for years
had been vital in California.
Other candidates for the senatorial
nominations were William ]. Pearson,
democrat, of Los Angeles; Upton Sim
clair, socialist author, Pasadena and
H. Clay Needham, prohibitionist, New
hall.
For gubernatorial honors, Governor
William D. Stephens was out to sue
coed himself on the republican ticket
He also filed on the prohibition tick
ct. His republican opponent was State
Treasurer Friend w. Richardson OF
Berkeley.
Mattison B. Jones Of Glendale, a
Los Angeles suburb, and Thomas Lee
Woolwine, district attorney of Los
Angeles county, were the democratic
candidates. Jones also filed on the
prohibition ticket Alexander Horr OF
San Francisco was the socialist can
didate.
Republicans of the first and second
congressional districts in Northern
California made a determined effort
to regain these two seats in the house
of representatives from democratic in.
cumbents In all the other nine dis
tricts, except the sixth, which has
been vacant since the death last fall
of Representative Arthur Elston, the
incumbents are candidates to succeed
themselves. No opposition candidates
appeared in the fifth, seventh, eighth
and eleventh districts to contest with
republican incumbents.