Show PLAYS HEAVY ROLE IN RECENT I ELECTION Graft Prosecutor Lays Aside Personal Feeling to Fight for Wilson IGNORES GOV JOHNSON California's California 5 Senator-Elect Senator Regarded as as a Slicker Tough Sledding Ahead By BURL ARMSTRONG Magazines and Eastern p pen peri periodicals n- n with are now appearing wIth all sorts of excuses excuses- explanations analyses and diagnoses s of the recent election But ut In n all of or the autopsies I have seen no mention has been made o of the Important part played by Francis J. J H Heney S who started Democrats Demo Demo- Hiram m Johnson who Pem cats all over the nation singing X I I ve You California needed Heney II I his deal to throw the state for Wit Wit- Ii n and thus insure the defeat of ot I Hughes jf AXI Heney was willing to trade bec be because be- be c cause U use the submergence of his his own p feelings s meant the election of ofa a president of ot the United States as asS ass s subsequent events proved Heney's part In the recent campaign 1 U additional proof proof proof-if if additional proof b bf needed needed or of Johnsons Johnson's treachery to toI toJ J I Hughes And the returns were not all an anit it 11 when reports were printed acro across s the C c. c country th that t Francis J. J was to to have a slat seat In tho the new Wilson cabinet Heney and Johnson have hated each eacho o other her since that day in the San Franc Francisco Francsco Fran Fran- c cisco graft Investigations that Johnson Johnsont t tIed led to cop the glory already won by Heney who was pro prosecuting There sprang sprang up then a bitt bitter r feud that rankles rankles ran ran- kles kies to this day I From the birth of or the Progressive movement movement in California to 1914 Johnsn Johnson John John- s son sn n and Heney were at war over control con con- tol of the new part party Johnson was governor and controlled the state patronage Heney was frozen out In 1914 Heney ran fo for United States sen sen- ator Johnsons Johnson's favorite for the Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- nomination was Chester H. H P owell of Fresno I Heney tene beat Rowell Rowen so badly at the primary no one consi considered ered him In the race In the campaign that followed Johnson running for re-election re as governor gm never mentioned Heney's name In a speech although both were ere ereon on on the Progressive ticket He refused to allow Heney to appear on any platfOrm platform platform plat plat- form with him until in the windup he consented to an allow ow Heney to sneak Into the Shrine auditorium at Los Log Angeles and sit on the platform Running against Heney Hene were James D. D Phelan Democrat and Joseph R. R V V Knowland Republican Running a against Johnson was John D. D Freder icks Republican To insure the defeat of ot Fredericks Johnson made a deal with ith the Democrats who agreed to tos s support him and anti in return Johnsons Johnson's machine supported Phelan to defeat Heney Hemy Thus was Heney trimmed for fornator senator while Johnson received a plurality over oer Fredericks of You Tou ma may ask aal what this has to do with 1916 and with the result of the Presidential residential election Well ell in 1916 Heney had moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to run again gain for sen sen- ator But Johnson decided to run and Heney of course course saw no chance Still Stin nursing the bruises he received from Johnson two years ago Heney promised to take tale the stump and tear the wadding out of ot Hiram Johnson Mrs Irs Heney herself a clever politician joined the women's organization in the V. V light fight against Johnson She signed up as a member of the Women's omens Booth for foi ol Senator club When Johnson won the Republican RE nomination Heney went on the stump for Wilson lson and instead of le keeping ping his V promise to flay flar Johnson he never mentioned men nien- that gentleman n In an any of of his speeches Neither did he urge an anyone olle to vote for George S. S Patton the Democratic Demo Demo- cratic nominee Heney laid of off Johnson and supported supported sup sup- ported W Wilson lson Johnson in return laid off Hughes and supported himself Of or course politics is a selfish game and the tI-me fellow who doesn't look out for himself will not be he looked out for None of the pu publications I have seen V t at explain California swinging the r result sult lt In tn th the nation mentioned this i H He Heney el ey eY deal And the papers outside California have a great deal to sa say a about out Hughes snubbing Governor Johnson when he was campaigning last August gust in California Jin Un California California this incident is not re- re as having havin any bearing the I n national tiona election Here in Utah I have hard it said that it serves Hughes right to lose Jose California because of the way he lie ignored J Johnson I. I The truth is ls Johnson and hi his hiI friends j J. J med ined the in an effort to tep Hughes rushes out u of California during the primaries and nd nd failing to to accomplish Mils IS both Progressives I an and 1 t irs rs mutually agreed that Johnson and Broth Progressive r and Republican respectively for United V gates senator would remain as far avay l t tie Je e Hughes activities P af V as 5 Booth avoided ded Hughes and ancl the time Johns Johnn John- John s I n im managers mana carrying out their end o oj t the tho agreement nt kept the governor avay ara the presidential candidate was Hughes treated in quite the same manner as Heney was treated two V 2 r ars ago Then Johnson 1 received votes to tI the e good in his race I 1 for governor while Heney on the same tic ticket et was defeated by a small margin T This Tiis lS year ear Johnson slid slid V through with something better than majority a arid d Hughes on the same ticket t. t was beaten D eaten V The national atonal leaders of both parties f regard gad Johnson as a slicker and it Is ph Predicted that his career in fn the United Sates senate will be even more turbulent turbulent tur tur- bulent than that of Senator Lafollette |