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HIRAM JOHNSON’S SOMBRERO IS ON EDGE OF RING ---- -—■—- ;« Seen as Foe of Coolidge for Office Will Be Led by Force of His Nature to Seek Presidency on Progressive Issue. Lasker to Support Him By MARK SULLIVAN. \ Senator Johnson of California has come to a point where his movements and utterances are watched by all re publican politicians with a concern which writs from benevolence to alarm. Senator Johnson personally Is In his home state. There he and his friends are making a fight to name the California delegation of 28 members to the coming national re publican nominating convention. Johnson says he merely wants a "pro gressive” delegation and adds the qualifying phrase that "this is with out regard to myself.” Practical politicians who survey this action are not necessarily cynical about Johnson's good faith, but they doubt whether the distinction implied In Senator Johnson’s words can be maintained. If he is engaged in try ing to name the California delegation sooner or later he must say whether or not it is the intention that this delegation shall be for Johnson for president. Senator Johnson may or may not seek this issue, but at some state of the fight the issue will be forced upon him. It is Inherent in the situation. If Johnson names the delegation it will necessarily bo a Johnson-for-pres ident delegation. It is Inevitable that the opposition faction of the, party will crystallize about some other can didate, presumably Coolidge, and Johnson will then bo pressed to an nounce himself as a candidate on the , Children Cry for \\V\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ vwwwwwwvvwvvwv wv^v w v wvvvvVv\\%r J • MOTHER Fletcher’s Castoria is especially prepared to re- : ' lieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Absolutely ITarmlecg—No Opiates. Physicians everywhere recommend it ______* A Congenial Friend A warm house is always an attractive one when the weather is cold or damp and rainy. It creates hospitality and congenial friends—just as the Nesbi Standard Furnace is doing is thousands of homes. 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This is so. even if his present intention should go no fur ther than merely to name the per sonnel of the California delegation and dominate it in the writing of the platform and throughout the conven tion generally. It is entirely possible that the pres ent qualification Johnson puts on his attitude is in good faith and that he has no present purpose further than to name the delegation. Hut Johnson belongs to that temperamental class of persons who are led unconsciously by the law of their natures and who Inevitably do /the thing that reflects a purpose tenaciously held, but us yet not avowed even to themselves. Johnson Wants Presidency. For that matter there need not he much doubt that Johnson wants to throw is hat into the ring, wants to get the republican nomination and wants to be president of the United States. Johnson himself has said this ■ n an intimate letter to a friend, which letter became public through the machinations of one who Is not a friend, much to Johnson's embarrass ment and Indignation. Johnson wants, and has long wanted, to be president. He had, however, so long^is the late President Harding was alive, definitely, though with cl nging regret, put aside that ambition for the present. He had put it aside largely because he be lieved it would be impossible for him under his particular circumstances to take the nomination away from Hard ing. Aside from general consideration, such as the difficulty of taking the nomination away from a president al ready In office and surrounded by a compact organization of personal appointees and persons otherwise loyal to him—aside from this general difficulty, Johnson had, in addition, to face the particular difficulty that some of his closest political friends, some of them men upon whom he must rely most heavily to fight for him, were also intimate friends of President Harding and would never turn a hand to get the nomination for Johnson so long as Harding was alive and wanted it. The most im portant one of Johnson's friends who comes under this description was and is Albert D. Lasker, who was John’ son’s principal backer in 1920, but who subsequently became one of Harding's closest political Intimates and the beneficiary of Harding's favor, officially as chairman of the shipping board and unofficially in a thousand ways. Derision Is Eventful. With the death of Harding the whole political map changed for Johnson. From having come com fortably to the inn of decision ns re spects the question of contesting with Harding, he was thrown again into the sea of doubts, hopes and specula tion. Lasker, who, while Harding lived, would not have helped Johnson, could now be counted on. Coolidgs might be easier t<f beat than Harding (and yet. again, he might not—much depends on Colldge’s future record). These and a score of f iber ele ments in the situation so rearranged the whole political map as to put the matter up again to Johnson for con sideration and decision. All this un doubtedly has been pulling and haul ing at Johnson's uneasy spirit ever since Harding died. As to the out come, decidedly the best guess is that the net result of the pull of John son's temp-rament and of all the other considerations tends to carry him with increasing momentum to ward the decision to throw his hat into the ring. Not all the changes wrought in the situation by Harding death's were fa vorable to Johnson. While many of the sudden shifts and realignments brought about by the emergence of Corlidge tended to make It easier for Johnson to run, some of them point ed the other way. Conspicuous among the latter was the defection of Sen atnr Mose/ 0f New Hampshire During the period while Harding was still alive it seemed to us here at Washington that among those who “Diamond Brand” Concrete Blocks Have Always Been Class “A” Quality We are holders of Certificate of Quality No. 42 issued by the National Concrete Products Association. , . OFFICIAL REPORT OF TESTS Made by the Omaha Testing Laboratories tq the Building Department, City of Omaha, and National Concrete Products Association. D. R. Donlen, Secretary, Mid West Concrete Products Association, Omaha, Neb.: Following is a report of tests made on three concrete building blocks selected by you at the Diamond Concrete Products Co. plant at Omaha. Simpl* Dimension* Are* Absorption Breaking Cwnpreiilo* per Sq. In. No. Inch** Sq. In. Percent Pound* Gro** Aroo Net Aro* A 15.75x7.88x7.75 124.1 3.27 174,000 1,400 lb*. 2,332 !b». B IS.75x7.75x7.75 122 3.38 173,000 1.417 lb*. 2.362 lb*. C IS.83x7.88x7.88 IZS.I 2.34 200,000 plu* 1.866 plu* 2.662 plu* AVERAGE COMPRESSION PER SQ. INCH 1.471 2.482 These blocks were of the three-hole type with 40 per cent air space. They were approxi mately 90 days old. Sample C could not he crushed with our machine as its capacity is just 200,000 pounds. Yours Respectfully, y THE OMAHA TESTING LABORATORIES By W. H. C'ampen. Some People Did Not Believe Our Statemen 1* on Ab*orption and Strength. Remember REAL WATERPROOF CONCRETE BLOCKS Are Only Manufactured by the Diamond Concrete Products Co. Tel. WA 6773, 42d and Parker Sta. FRANK WHIPPERMAN, Prea. at that time tried hard to overcome Johnson'* disinclination to contest with Harding, the New Hampshire senator was of the foremost. Moses was and is a most Irreconcilable op ponent of the league of nations, of the world court, and of all other things European. He was and Is the very incarnation of the spirit of Isolation. Moses per sonally had had a good deal of ex perience with Europe. Curing the administration of Taft he was our minister to Greece and as such had had a good deal of contact with the diplomacy of Europe as practiced In that remote southeastern corner of the continent. Apparently the ex perience left Senator Moses with dis illusionment and bitterness as the most constant companions of his spirit so far as regards Europe, European statesmen and European diplomacy. in any event, Senator Moses’ Im placable hostility to any association of the United States with Europe was of such intensity that It failed to find satisfaction, Jailed to feel sufficient assurance in the rather mlddle-of-the road policy that Harding had about Europe. Moses was among those who were most sensationally alarmed by Harding’s proposal that America should adhere to the world court. He came to feel that Harding was#as re gards the Issue closest to Moses’ heart, not wholly "safe,” Moses want ed In the White House an "irreconcil able" who should be as dependable In his irreconcilability as Moses him self. And so, as we all felt in Wash ington, Moses was among the prin cipal ones of those who clung closest to Johnson's reluctant hand and tried hardest to persuade Johnson to raise that hand to the hat of his presiden tial ambitions and throw it Into the ring. In addition to the motive of fellowship in irreconcilability. Moses also felt that Johnson, if he were the republican candidate, could stir up a hotter fight, make more com motion, give more "pep" to the cam palgn, and ultimately get more votes than Harding could. Moses for Coolldge. Then Harding died and there stepped into the White House a man from tho state that adjoins Moses own New Hampshire, a New Englander commanding the strong territorial loyalty of all the New England states, including Moses’ own. Within a few days Moses called at the White House and on leaving It announced he was going back to New Hampshire to line the state up for Coolldge in 1924. At the time this happened there was a good deal of gossip In Washington, much of It humorous about the emo tions that arose in Hiram Johnson's breast when he saw this public an nouncement of Moses’ loyalty to a new king. Johnson is a man who has rather simple idea* about this tort of thing. Subsequently, to make the horror deeper, Senator Moses went to John son’s own state of California In the course of some work on a senatorial committee and, while In Johnson's own front yard, so to speak, gav* out a public interview in which h* was quoted as saying some things which to Senator Johnson must have seemed pretty terrible. Senator Mosea re marks Included the following: ’’Hiram W. Johnson, United State* senator from California, regarded in Washington as a regular republican, should not In the interest of republi can sol darlty Inject himself into the 1924 national campaign as a contender for support that should be accorded President Coolldge. 'Principles, not personal ambitions, should take pre cedence. "Senator Johnson is playing be tween his conservative brethren and his radical brethren, it Is a deeper ate game of political tWti'-rope walk ing, but there Is nothing particular!} reprehensible about It and Senatoi Johnson does want to be presl dent. , . . "In these days of party dlslntegrn tlon there should be more agreement on party principles and less heckling from the sidelines hy those who In flate the Importance of a few Issues to gain an audience for political pref errnent." And so Senator Johnson was com pelled to add to the already compre hensive knowledge of the lntrlcac.es of human nature he has acquired in a long and tumultuous political career the fact that apparently the possession of a common love for New England Is a closer bond than the possession of a common hate for the world court. One feels that It would be Interest ing to be a spectator—at a safe dls tance—on the next occasion when Moses and Johnson com* face to face. I.a*ker Now Free Agent. This defection of Senator Moser, however, was but a minor one of the changes wrought by the emergence of Coolidge Into the political map as It affects Johnson.. Most of the other changes pointed In the direction of Increased encouragement to Johnson and renewed appeals to the spirit of hla ambition. Chief among the changes tending to urgo Johnson on la th* fact that Albert Lasker Is now free to haek him. Lasker Is very rich. Is stiperen ergetlc, has a strong and entirely ad mlrable ambition to have a hand In public affairs, has a superb knowl edge of publicity gained In 20 years as the owner and head of the largest advertising agency In the world, his powerful associates who nr* under obligations to him and In all respects ha* the equipment to he a most formidable person as the backer of a presidential aspirant. If Johnson runs Lasker will he he hind him, heart, aoul. purse and pet son. And you need only recall the AIH KKTISKMKNT. 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Omaha, Neb. furious and effective energy I-asker threw Into the reorganization of the government shipping business, the al most daily Reries of "stunts” with which he brought the Leviathan and the other government ships to .the at tention of the public, to get a hint of how the air will hum If Johnson should announce himself and so soon as Lasker gets under way to make him president. It Is In Lasker's own state of Illi nois th^t there exists one of the con ditions which impel not only Lasker hut many more seasoned republican politicians to bring pressure on John son to run. In Illinois the republican party is in the midst of one of the most savage feudal fights in Ameri can political bistory. The details arc too complex to be reproduced here and too local to be understood by the general public throughout the country. It Is sufficient to say that the two factions are In a fight to the death—one of those fights in which tens of thousands of the voters in both factions come to the point where they w’ould take far greater satisfac tion In seeing n democrat win than in letting any one in the other fac tion win. It is the sort of fight that arose between the Taft and Roosevelt fol lowers In 1912 and It threatens to end In the samo sort of schism, disas trous to the republican party. The ways in which this Illinois fight af fects Johnson ar# two: In the first place, one or the other of the fac tions is bound to have a candidate ■for the presidency other than Coolidge, If one faction gets behind Coolidge the other faction will get behind some body else, and it appears to be a fact that some of the leaders of both fac tions are eager to be first in con scripting Johnson on their side. In the second place, this factional fight is so bitter as to make It uncertain whether the republicans can carry the state for the governorship next year, and it is to add to the chances of the republicans carrying tlie state that some of the leaders would like to see Johnson as the presidential nominee, on the theory that in this particular state at least, where the anti-league of nations sentiment is especially strong. Johnson as the head of the ticket might win more voteB for the party than Coolidge. •(Incidentally. It is this same com plexity of the Illinois republican situa tion that creates a strong urge on ex Oov?rnor Lowden of that state to throw his hat also into the ring— but this is a different story.) Popular in Other States. In the allusion In the last few Fen fences will be found the determining factor as to whether Johnson shall or shall not be the next republican nom inee. That allusion about Illinois re publican leaders who think Johnson could stir up more Interest and get more vote* than Coolidge ajtplies not only to Illinois but also, to -ft less de pree, to some other state* and to some of the national republican leader gen erally. On just how deep this feeling is at the time the convention meet* In June will depend the answer whether the leaders will name Coolidge or Johnson. If they th.nk they can win with Coolidge they will give him the nomination most assuredly. Hut if on the day of the convention they are in doubt whether Coolidge can win, and if they also think at that time that Johnkon might be able to gpt more votes than Coolldge, they will tend to 'name Johnson. 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