Show H JO JOHNSON N NTO EXPOSES TRICK TO BLIND BlIN VOTE Declares Coolidge dge Has Hai Done Nothing in Three Months of Congress t to Demonstrate Leadership CHICAGO March 7 Charging attempt was being deliberate that a being made by tho the Coolidge managers t to prevent a free expression of th the sentiment of the electorate in th the primary states Senator Hiram California declared to today today today to- to Johnson of day he would continue to expose the humorous tricks of the campaign campaign campaign cam cam- wherever they are found statement Issued a ai at athis t In a public his national headquarters today Senator Johnson referred to th the humorous attempt of the Coolidge managers in Michigan to enter a a i dead man In the state presidential presidents primary to confuse the voters and such said he had encountered Just little jokes In four tour primary states It is a a. curious thing to find so soman man many Jocular Coolidge managers managers- and all of them In primary states the California senator said lie He explained that a personal investigation Investigation investigation gation of the attempt to enter one e Hiram Johnston as a a. presidential candidate in n Michigan had resulted in an explanation through the press pres press i that t the e filing was as just a bit o ol of humor The storm of Indignation which swept the state as a result of the attempt to confuse the voters and thus to defeat the purposes of of the primary overwhelmed the perpetrators perpetrators perpetrators and caused them to withdraw withdraw withdraw with with- draw the fictitious and candidate candidate and and fictitious he was in every sense of ol I Ithe the word for the Hiram Johnston I entered had been dead for more mOle than a year METHOD DENOUNCED Similar demonstrations of the jovial temperament of the Coolidge managers were found In the Dakotas Dakotas Dakotas Da- Da kotas and Alabama In South Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- kota they were so full fun of humor It took two decisions of the state su supreme suI supreme su- su preme court to get my name on onI I the primary ballot In North Korth Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- I kota attorneys In my employ still are fighting to have the name of Senator La Follette Fonette removed from the ballot Senator La Follette has emphatically stated that he Is not nota a candidate In fn North Dakota and yet there is an Issue as to whether his name shall shan go on the ballot It ItIs Itis Itis Is clearly and deliberately an at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to frustrate the expression of the electorate In Alabama we find the humor humor of the situation reaching almost the point of sublimity There despite the tho fact that a primary law Is on the statute books the Republican state committee has ruled tha the delegates to the national convention convention conven en tion will be selected by the committee committee com com- Challenging the leadership of President Coolidge Senator Johnson declared nothing has been done during the three months congress has been In session to demonstrate his leadership either of the party or the people First he resigned to the poli poli- politicians politicians the most important position In Washington the secretary to the president and appointed C C. Bascom Slemp CRITICIZES COOLIDGE He lie threw his his his' support to the Mellon tax plan That plan is now burled buried so deep it Is beyond resurrection resurrection Mr Mellon persuaded the president president president pres pres- ident to oppose the bonus The bonus bOlus is going to be passed Secretary Hughes Hugues persuaded the president to advocate the cause of the world court today the world court slumbers in the foreign relations relations relations rela rela- committee And when the greatest public scandal jn n American history began to the air of the national capital not the president but the senate led Jed the way The senate asked for tor the re resignation of Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary tary Denby and the president opPosed op- op Posed the action The senate is asking for the resignation of Attorney Attorney Attorney ney General Daugherty Senator Johnson left left for tor a two- two day lay speaking tour in northern Illi- Illi noIs |