| Show 44 HS fi aa I 1 EDITORIAL i i K iii X si si MS M S sill HIRAM JOHNSON MR HIRAM JOHNSON was lately hoard heard from in various parts ot of the country says dearborn independent but there was nowhere hoard board an echo 0 of him after he left the personally selected presidential bial candidate candit ot of albert alber t D lasker is doing his best to live up to the advertising agents notion ot of what a live political pIli tour should be but is palpably tailing failing in impressiveness even it mr lasker lasher should rally the whole power ot of the american jewish committee to mr johnson or that part of it which mr baruch banich tails fails borally to tally rally to mr mcadoo there would still be something lacking in appeal to the american mind As a poor man as mr johnson delights to describe himself he Is in mighty poor company poor men should avoid as they would avoid a pestilence the favors ot of wealthy men who seldom invest without expectation 0 of return the lack of frankness in mr johnson was nowhere hee more apparent than in his michigan address michigan is the home ot of mr newberry whose election to the united states senate was contested conte sted senator johnson was not present when the vote tote was taken and was c charged arged h i the length and breadth of 0 the country with committing a deliberate act of evasion he came to michigan with that handicap and in his speech referred to the newberry matter numerous times always linking it with the regret that he had missed the train but he was not frank enough to say how he would have voted had the train arrived and he with it after that of course michigan pro promptly matiy returned mr johnson to the limbo from which his appearance had momentarily lifted him I 1 As the opposition mr johnson is pitiably ineffectual merely being agin the government is not a certificate of wisdom in american eyes and merely being tor for something that will win votes by given people money out of the treasury is not accepted as vision this is as tar far as mr johnson goes if IE mr johnson would take the train rain to washington and get on the job iob to which the people of 0 his state elected sheeted him he would do all that is required equi red of him now |
