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Show G. Q. P. ELECTOR WILL VOTE FOR WILSON H LINCOLN. Nfb.. July I?.-Amiil all th H Jun-blcd condition;) of politics this year, M nothing else Is rpiltf so novel as the at- tltudo taken by Allen Johnson of Fro- mont, one of the dpht Republican nomi-1 nomi-1 necs for presidential elector. In a state-H state-H Tnent made over the Ion? distance tele-1 tele-1 phone Mr. Johnson declarer! that he In- tend to cost hl vote nt the November H election for Woodrow Wilson. "As tin Individual wrio favors the pro-j pro-j prc.BHlve cause. I'm going to vote for j Wilson," he paid. "L do not favor the H third party movement. But as a candl-H candl-H date for elector I am willing to curry H out Hyp wishes of the majority and sup- I port the presidential candidate whom the people of this state want." "The people do not vote dlrectlv for president." was suggested to Mr. Johnson, John-son, "and the only way they can express their preference is by voting for electors." elec-tors." "Well. I'm on the Republican ticket, and if the Republicans elect me. I'll vote for Taft in my capacity as an elector," he responded. "Then you do not expect to cast your electoral vote for Roosevelt?" "No. because he Is not tho Republican candidate for president." Mr Johnson's statement that he will vote for Taft. If chosen as an elector gives tho president three of the elpht Republican Republi-can nominees for that office In Nebraska. One of the others says he will voto for Roosevelt. The remalndlnjj four were nominated aE Roosevelt men. but at the present time refuse to say what they will do. They are George S. Flory. A. R. Davis, A, V. Pease and TV. E. Thome. For anyone runnlnpr as an electoral candidate on onp. ticket to announce that he will give his citizen's vote to the candidate of an opposing party for president presi-dent Is believed to be without parallel In American hlstoryl The only way Johnson John-son can vote for Wilson for president Is bv voting for the Democratic electors, and If he should do this, he will have 'to vote ngnlnst himself The Fremont man Is nn attorney and made his canvass as a candidate for elec-tor-at-large without the help of either the Tnft or the Roosevelt campaign bureau. bu-reau. He Is the only man not on the slate of one or the other faction who won a nomination. |