The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-23
CALIFORNIA IS IN MIDST OF HOT
 POLITICAL FIGHT
Contests For Senatorial and Gubernatorial Nomina= tions Are Vigorous.

Anchorage, Alaska, Aug. 23.-(By Associated Press. .)-Vigorou cam torial candidates was the feature of the weeks preceding California's pri- mary election. which will be held on August 29 and at which candidates will be nominated for complete state ticket and for all county offices
 Virtual 1ast-minute injection into the preprimary campaign of Re publican opponent against United States Senator Hiram W Johnson, who had been expected to have a clear field so far as the Republican nom1na- ton was concerned, aroused old-tlme political antagonisms Senator John sons opponent was Charles C. Moore, San Francisco engineer and president of the Panama Pacific Internationa. Exposition at San Francisco in 1915.
 Moore,s candidacy was announced after a meeting in San Francisco of Republican leaders opposed to J John- son, and following the announcement | it became apparent that the anti Johnson campaign would be based on the latters opposition to the Four Power Pacific treaty.
 Early in the campaign reports were circulated that Moore had the backing of the administration of President Harding and that it was a fight of | progressive as represented by Moore, against a man who was "at outs'' with the national administra- 1 tion. Later reports from Washington | said the president had decided to take | no part in the California senatorial l fight. It also was declared by Sena- l tor Johnson's friends that aside from
 his vote against the Four Power Treaty, Johnson was a firm supporter of the President.
 1 Senator Johnson returned to Cali fornia and was prompt to take up | the fight. In his opening speech to
 the nome folks he declared that it | was ''the same old fight against the l old RanRsb-men who opposed | him when he was governor and fought | the Southern Pacific Railroad com | pany and other corporations.
 ! Senator Johnson also declared that he had returned ito the best protect ed state in the Union" so far as the | tariff was concerned. He declared l that he had opposed the Four Power ! treaty because he was opposed to "en- tangling alliances and because of the l Japanese immigration issue, which fo1
 years Had been vital in California. | Other candidates for the senatorial | nominations were William J. Pearson clair, Socialist author, Pasadena, and Il H. Clay Needham, Prophibitionist Newhal1.
 For gubernatoria1 honors, Governor William D.. Stephens was out to suc- ceed himself on the Repu olican ticket He also filed on the prohibitionis
 ticket. His Republican opponent was State Treasurer Friend w. Richard son of Berkeley.
 Mattison B. Jones of Glendale. z
 Los Angeles suburb, and Thomas Lex
 Woolwine, district attorney of Lo! Angeles county, were the Democratic Icandidates. Jones also filed on ths prohibition ticket. Alexander Horl of San Francisco was the Socialist
 candidate.
 Republicans of the First and Second
 congressional districts in Northern iCalffornia made determined effor to regain these two seats in the House of Representatives from Democratic lincumbents. In all the other nine dis tricts, except the Sixth which has beer vacant since the death last fall 0: Representative Arthur E1ston, the in
 cumbents are candidates to succeed themselves. No opposition candidates appeared in the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and Eleventh districts to contest witt Republican incumbeIts.