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Show JOHNSON EXPECTS TO WEARJIS TOGA Denies Story That He Will Resign Senatorship and Remain Governor. SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 10. Conjectural Con-jectural reports emanating from Sacramento Sacra-mento today that Hiram Johnson was planning to relinquish his United States senatorship-elect in favor of Chester H. Rowell of Fresno,, national Republican committeeman, and to retain his present post as governor, brought forth a shower of denials today. The governor personally issued a statement that the report was ' wholly and absolutely false. Bv midaftei-noou his secretary's desk was piled with telegrams from all parts of the country, demanding whether there was truth in" the rumor. One Washington Washing-ton dispatch indicated that the report bad been accepted as fact, and that history his-tory was being searched for precedents of a senator-elect preferring to remain governor. "One of the most remarkable political politi-cal canards that has ever been sprung on the American public," was the view expressed by his secretaries after an investigation in-vestigation personally authorized by the governor. The fact that Raymond Robins, national na-tional Progressive! leader; Meyer Liss-ner Liss-ner of Los Angeles and Mr. Rowell paid a call on the governor this morning was regarded by some as giving support to the retirement rumor. Discovering that nation-wide credence had been given the report, Governor Johnson gave out another statement through his secretaries late today repeating re-peating that it was ali a plot fabricated by his political enemies and claiming that proof of the plot had been found. It was repeated that no statement of Johnson 's future plans would be forthcoming forth-coming before Monday. |