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Show IJOISQN EXHORTS THE PROGRESSIVES Third Party Organizes in California, According to Programme. NO SURPRISES SPRUNG Fight Over the Senatorial Toga of Perkins Is Yet SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. O-From every congressional district of California Califor-nia the Progressiva of tho stato mot today in pnrty conference, repudiated tliclr ono-timo affiliation with the national na-tional Ropublican party, cheered their leader, Govornor Illram W. Johnson, l and enterod immediately . on tho bosi- K ness of a temporary organisation 1 So much was on tho cards and there was no surpriso about it. 60 far as tho politics of tho stato go, tho moot im- m portant dovelopmont of tho day was tho 1 governor's fuilnro to make any dec- c loration of his own intentions. t Earlier in tbo day thb word had gone 19 forth that an important announcement 3 was to bo expected at tho closo of the I governor's address. Tho naturo of it could not be forecast, but prosumably I it boro on tho senatorial situation, us I it afiocts tho next candidate of the 1 party for governor. J Fight Over Toga, i Francis J. Honey and Chester Rowoll I of Fresno aro both avowed jcandidatos j to euccood Senator Perkins, whoso terra expires next year, and who will not bo 1 a candidato for re-election. There has i boon a fooling that this rivalry ought j to bo composed bofore it went to tho j primaries, and many leaders who arguod ) IUb way, urged Governor Johnson as the strongest man to represent the 1 uarty nationally. I IB Opposed to this group was another, jfl which argnod that Johnson was needed ' in tho stato to hold his party" together and which was determined to run him for governor again, but when the governor's gov-ernor's sot speech at tho convention was finishod and ho loworod his voioo j to conversational tonos, and when j overy ear was pricked up to catch the S expectod announcement, there came I merely an exhortation to 1 all Progros-1 Progros-1 sives "to stand together and fight hard, j "So far as I know, and I believe it jj is tho truth," snid Moyor LlsBncr of 1 Los Arjgclos, formerly chairman of the a executive? committeo of tho lato Ro-II Ro-II publicnn state central coramittoe, "Gov-jj "Gov-jj era or Johnson has not indicatod to any ft llvine person his intentions whether II howill run for senator or governor, or :j Johnson's Oration. Tn delivering tho oration of the day, 5 Govornor Johnson ca&t aside his notes, j and though following closely tho argu- I mentation and exposition of his pre- I pared address, amplified, heightened I and in passages entirely altered the I phraseology. I There was a sharper edgo to the per- I eonal allusions, and a moro insistent 1 emphasis on tho gravity of tho present ! situation, which tho governor again j and again called a crisis. Ho quoted from Lowell 'a lines, beginning: "Then to stnnd with truth is noble," in the poem entitled "Tho Crisis," and in j the peroration of one passago he de clared: "God's new Messiah has come to scparnto tho fiheop from the goats in California." Repeatedly ho urged his hearers and followers to "fight, fight, fight." Ho spoko of giving and taking blows, of tho "fanatical desiro" sometimes noc- cssary to carry a cause through to tri- u umph. and tho poor rewards reserved I fr those whose part in the world's I affairs was that of cowardice. |