Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-31
DHNSON'S ENTRY
! IN g RACE SEEN
Speculation Rife After Attack
on Hoover'S Policy
Toward League.

The possibility o. . contest between
President Hoover and Senator Hiram
Johnson OF California in their home
State presidential primary next Spring
was the subject Of speculation in Wash
ingson today following the Senator
action yesterday in calling upon the
Nation to repudiate at the ballot box
Mr. Hoover's policy toward the League
Of Nations
californias primary k among the
1rst 70 be held
The words Of the California Senator
about whom a presidential bee has
buzzed in former years. we're spoken for
taking pictures in California and made
public here They echoed loudly down
the corridor Of political gossip and
Rtlesses were about even as to whether
they actually put him into the running
Tor the 1892 nomination.
By entering the League OF Nations
Council meetings on the Sino-Japanese
dispute, johnson asserted. the admin
istration takes us into Europe's politi-
eel controversies in violation OF the
Constitution and in defiance of the
peoples will.
Ballot Declared Remedy.
1.-THE only remedy left the people
against their betrayers Is the ballot
box" he added
While, the President and his fellow
Californian have not been politically
friendly, Senator johnson did not OPP
pose Hoover's nomination or election in
ls28.
In 1920 johnson was one OF three
over whom the Republican convention
deadlocked. In 1924 he took some dele
gates away from MIR. Coolidge. In 1928
he said he was through with presiden-
tial politics. He has not modified that
assertion since.
There have been open breaks be-
tween Mr.. Hoover and Mr. johnson on
legislative policies during the present
administration, but the Senator's state
ment yesterday vas his FIRST challenge
to the Hoover reelection campaign
Next year" he said. Americans
must reafiirm the old American policy
OF friendship for all nations, political
connections with none. and in emphatic
tones again say this Government il
American, and must be administered
not first for Europeans, but first for
Americans"
Statement Lashes at Japan.
Senator johnson was a leader in the
memorable Senate fight against join
ing the League of Nations. He is now
ranking Republican on the Foreign Re-
lations Committee
His statement also dashed at Japan,
whom ne accused of taking part Of
Manchuria and OF violating every
treaty designed to promote peace"
The statement follows:
After II years, our country, so far
rs the present administration could in
volve US, has been finally jockeyed and
Juggled into the League of Nations. It
is pretended. OF course, that we sacri-
fee nothing of our Independence, but
when you sit in an official body as part
of IT and participate in It's proceedings.
you are in honor bound to see 1t
through. II was not necessary for US
to join the League OF Nations to write
an individual note to Japan about the
Kellogg pine pact.
There is no real war in the Orient.
because you can't have war between q
chopStick and a machine gun. Japan,
violating every treaty designed to pro-
mote peace. has with the strong arm
taken part of Manchuria. and what
Japan takes she keeps. The admins
tration acting for international bankers
seizes upon the occasion to rush us
into the League of Nations-the League
rejected by the United States Senate
and at the polls repudiated by the
American people.
The act of the administration takes
us into Europe's political controversies
and is in violation of the Constitution
and in defiance of the peoples will. The
only remedy left the people against
their betrayers is the ballot box. Next
year. Americans must reafirm the old
American policy OF friendship for all
nations political connections with none,
and in emphatic tones again say this
Government is American and must be
administered not first for Europeans,
but first for Americans"