Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-02

health and physical we'll being
would think of falling to do his
daily dozen.
If there is any doubt about this,
reference NAV be had to the lettor
relative to presidential primaries
which Senator Johnson wrote re
Gently and made public in way
calculated to produce the greatest
possible amount of publicity. This
document is accepted here as the
cirtual announcement of Senat n
Johnson's presidential candidacy.
In it the senator criticiZes vigorously
the existing primary laws under
which a candidate may carry a state
and yet be robbed of all or part CT
| the delegate votes of the state when
it comes to the balloting in the
national conventions.
IT have SEEN" says Senator john
son. ''in national conventions dele
gates from a state where a candi-
date had received an overwhelming
vote of the electorate deliberately
break their faith and violate their
state law. In North Carolina in 1920
where one candidate received the
preference of the Republicans of the
state by a vote of three to one,
twenty-five delegates, with one Ak
ception, deliberately betrayed their
people and violated the plain provt-
sions of the law"
This reference to the senator s
own experience, as he was the cam
didate who carried North Carolina
and then failed to get the delegate
vote of the state in the national
convention. 1t is his idea that when
a state is carried in presidential
primary it ought to stay carried
and his way q accomplishing this
would be to ! a provision to the
aw which wou4s authorize the cam
didate chosen by the people If the
particular state to name the dele
tional convention. Such delegates
would be hand-picked and hog-tied
so to speak, and could not get
away until released by the candidate
himself.
senator Johnson, in this letter,
also characterized the present sys-
tenn of nomination in the Repuhli-
can party as little short OF outrA-
geoCs," declaring that a combination
of the Southern states where there
is no Republican party, with North
ern states where there Is no honest
expression of popular opinion. "en-
ables a Republican National Con-
vention to register the choice of a
few instead of the will of the MT
iority. "This," he says, ''is wrong in
principle and in operation worse
than unjust to the rank and file."
! With more than 400 Of the dele
| gates to the next Republican Ma
| tional Convention certain to be Sc
| lected in primaries, and the posi-
| bility that the number will exceed
| 500 if states considering primary
| laws enact them, Senator Johnson's {
militant candidacy is certain to aAd
great Zest to what otherwise might
| prove to be a prosaic campaign
The senator has a winning way
when it comes to going after votes
! that is not to be overlooked
Not the least interesting feature
OF the gossip anent the Honorable
fIiram, by the way, is the repor
that he is the choice of the extreme
conservative element in the Repub
lican party that is dissatisfied wit;
President Harding. Just what thi
element is, or why 1t should be dis
pleased with the President, has no
been made clear, but 1t Is at leas
an Illuminating commentary on tn
mutability of American politics ant
the agility of American statesme'
to suggest that in the course of
few brief years one can take a run
ming turnp from the ticket Of tn
Progressives and land IN the mids
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