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Show jom to : FOR PRESIDENCY California Republican to Make Direct Appeal in Each State. "WASHINGTON, Dee. 13. Senator Hiram Hi-ram W. Johnson of California announced formally tonight that lie would be a candidate can-didate for the Republican nomination for the presidency. The senator said he would make a personal .campaign in every state, explaining that he did not Intend to have his candidacy determined by "politicians In convention." Plans of Senator Johnson, who formerly was governor of California, who ran as the vice presidential candidate with Theodore Roosevelt on the Progressive ticket In 1912, he stated. Include a direct appeal to the electorate in each state, whether their choice of a candidate is made by convention or primary. "I have been laid up tho past week and I am leaving Sunday night for California," Califor-nia," Senator Johnson's statement said. "I hope to get myself In shape In a couple of weeks there and on my return to enter Into the presidential campaign. "T fully realize the handicaps under which I labor and the obstacles which I must overcome, but I am exercising what Is every American's birthright. Of course, any success for mo must come from the people themselves, not from a certain well-known class of politicians or from those whose interests make such politicians. politi-cians. Wherever it is possible, I am going direct to the people. Upon my return I shall announce a definite and specific program." |