The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-01
LASKER ID P|LOT. JOHNSON'S BOOM
With Death Of Harding, LaSker Goes Over To
 His First Love
By RAY-rOND CHAPTER (By Leased Wire to The Age-Hernid.)

 | WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-The pres ] idential boom of Senator Hiram Johnson is about to burst into full bloom with A. D. Lasker, former chairman of the United States ship ping board, and an intimate of the late President Harding, as the chan cellor of the exchequer. Lasker con stitutes Coolidges first loss out of the political estate he inherited from Harding.
 Lasker was associated with John sons 1920 campaign, but went over | to Harding after the nomination. He now returns to hlS first love and will set about at once to raise a campaign chest. Lasker would like to assume 1 general management of Johnsons | political fortunes during the coming year, but feels that 1t would be bet ter for him to concentrate on the money raising job and leave the pol itics to other hands.
 Johnson's decision to jump at once was hastened by the administra ation' 5 venture into the separations row. It raises the old issue of isolation vs. l interference in Europe political af- fairs. This Is Johnson's red meat. He was fairly well hog-tied by the administration on domestic affairs | He supported the FordneY- McCumber CT tariff, and conveniently missed the train that would have put him in Washington Just ip time to vote on the busting of Newberry.
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 Johnson Has Point.
 But here IS a situation in which Johnson fairly revels. He will charge the administration with violating the mandate of the voters in 1920, which he interprets as a command to keep the United States out of Europe. It brings him into a battle with Secre- tary of State Hughes, who is one of Johnson's choice targets.
 Johnson counts on the support of some of the old irreconcilable bat | talion in the Senate. But the full back of that squad will be missing Senator Borah of Idaho. He is not in sympathy with anything that Is done under the treaty of Versailles. But he has pleaded for a world economic conference for many months, and feels unable to raise his voice against this effort, which he recognizes as being the best that would be made under the circumstances. Further more, Borah has long since jumped off the Johnson band wagon and Is going 1t alone at the moment. He is up for recollection in Idaho next year and some of his friends have detect ed growing symptoms of party regu- larity as the time of that fight draws nearer.
 Other senators will be somewhat slow in joining the west coast insur- gent movement at this time. First they want to see how the present ef- fort abroad comes out before con demning- 1t. Secondly, they do not want to fight the administration until the political situation becomes little more definite. Coolidge is still re- garded as a candidate for the nomi- nation. If he appears likely to get away with 1t, the wise politicians those who make their living at poii- tics. will stick close under his wing
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 Britten Takes Issue.
 Representative Fred A. Britten of Illinois takes issue with his White House chief and urges that the United States build up a league of Americas instead of involving itself in Europe again.
 T have made six trips to Europe since the armistice, and of my ob- servation. Europe Is no place for the United States to involve itself" Brit ten declared