The Washington times., 1922-11-09

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WILLIAM HARD m 8 I
thoughts OF GER
tain numerous Republican pol .ucal
managers belonging to the party's
conservative wing. No longer is
johnson regarded by them as a
nightmare, red terror. and Il
pestilence sent out by the political
underworld to destroy civil zation.
That was what he was few weeks
ago, but not now.
Now when these managers con.
template the savage form OF Brook
hart of Iowa. and when they look
upon the avenging features OF Ship
stead of Minnesota, and when they
observe the empire Of Robert Marion
La Toilette extending itself West.
ward from the shores Of Lake
Michigan across all the broad
prairies Of the Northwest to meet
the grand duchy of Big Bill Borah
of Boise in the Rocky mountains,
they turn to gaze in relief at the
countenance Of Hiram johnson and
they see In him a pillar OF society,
a calm and dispassionate upholder
and maintainer of established in
stitutions. friend of normalcy and
of party regularity, and good old
fire horse standing ready In his stall
to come out and haul a hook and
ladder company to the salvaging Of
the burning party house. 80, %,
Having been the fire, Mr.. Johnson
Is now becoming the fire department.
A Republican leader here of the high
est prominence and Of the severest
conservative inclinations and convic-
tions said today:
What is all this talk about John
sons not being regular How many
times has he failed to be regular
since he became Senator? Just name
them!"
, named the four-power treaty.
Yes" said this leader. johnson
went off the reservation on the four
power treaty. But how many other
times has he gone off II? Not many.
Just think It over. Compare him
with Borah or La Toilette"
Having been asked about ten
times now by conservative poll
ticians to compare Johnson with
Borah or La Toilette, ] begin at
last to see the point Of the inquiry.
Borah and La Toilette bolted away
from the tariff. Johnson did not.
He bolted 1t down. He took 1t, and
ne not only took 1t but he liked IT,
and he told the people Of California
that the tariff was good doctriue
because II was Republican doctrine
and American doctrine.
The Republican party can stand
n lot of progressivism II the tariff Is
tx1 ahrina R0Oga-
Welt discovered that fact. johnson
IN a Rooseveltian. Moreover. al
though he has a great reputation for
enacting humanitarian labor legisla-
tion in California, and although he
enjoys A large and faithful labor sup.
mort. and although he has voted
steadily for measures in Congress In
tended to relieve distress among
farmers. he, nevertheless, has also
steadIly refralned from Joining the
iahor bloc or the farm bloc in Con-
gress, and he has taken no part In
the farmer.labor movement which to-
day In the Northwest is threatening
the fences of the Republican party
sIl the way from the Great Lakes to
the verge OF the Pacific.
In the State of Washington Sena.
tor Polndexter-Republican and ex.
trame conservative--has fallen. In
the adjoining State OF Montana
SENATOR Meyers--Democrat and ex.
trerne onservative-retired without
waiting to fall: and he has been
succeeded by B. X. Wheeler-Demo'
crat and extreme progressive.
. wheeler was supported by the
Non. Partisan League and ne is the
Democratic equivalent OF the Re
nublican Frazier in the adjoining
state OF North Dakota.
Tn Forth Dakota, II Frazier is
6efeated. the alternative In O'Connor,
who In conservative only by com.
nartson. In South Dakota. In Neh.
raska, In Iowa, In Wisconsin, IN
Minnesota, in Michigan, In Ohio,
the line OF disasters to the Republi'
can old Guard or to the whole
Republican Party continues without
interruption till II comes really
ali the way from the Pacific back
% the Ohio frontier
Tn. nature Of the force behind
this spreading epidemic has been
cIorely studied; and the bacillus OF
n has been discovered and isolated;
and II has been found to be new
!. .double.headed organism called
"Fafmer.Labor." which is sometimes
invisible to the naked eye, but which
In always present nowadays IN al,
Western and Northwestern political
illnesses. The next step In clear.
oH the theory Of stopping an infec.