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Show JOHNSON WILL BE CANDIDATE FOR THE U. S. SENATE SAN FRANCISCO, July' 8. Governor Gover-nor Johnson announced here today his willingness to be a candidate for the United States senate. He was wildly cheered by Progressives assembled in a meeting at which the announcement was made. "A crisis is confronting us, " he said. "I don't know what my duty is. The United States senate has no attraction for me. It is nothing but trouble and discomfort. I don't want to be a candidate, can-didate, but if it is necessary, and my friends say it is, that I do this to keep alive the Progressive movement in this state, I am ready to go on with the fight. "There are reasons for my not doing it which I can only discuss within my household. The spectre of poverty may follow. But I will go on." A Progressive organization within the Republican and Democratic parties was advised by the governor as the reasonable reason-able rirocedure to bo followed by Progressives Pro-gressives in California. Without such organization, he said, the fruits of Progressive Pro-gressive activity in this state might be Johnson announced some time ago he would support Charles E. Hughes for president. |