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Show mora cars and attention In ' selecting select-ing his awn friends, b anight not I have to complain ao bitterly about bis socalled enemies." Lawrence tndicatad that ha would not make further answer to John-aon'a John-aon'a attack.' "It la never profitable to discus anvtblnay with a cornea, for the moat Intereatlnr feature ot tha lata senator1 e attack la that It la a man preaching1 hie own funeral oration.1 Lawrence wrote. . Albert E. Boynton. chairman f the California, Republican state central committee, was jubilant about the publication of tha letter Johnson wrote to hla supporter, Charles II. McClatchey of Sacramento, Sacra-mento, and Johneon'e reaction to Us publication here. "The letter wss stolen," Boynton declared. "But I'm mighty glad the Incident occurred. "We really owe Andrew Lawrence Law-rence a debt of gratitude, for now the political situation here Is clarified clari-fied and we know just where tha enemies of the people are and who they are. The letter la a declaration declara-tion of Independence, "Snator Johneon Is pessimistic. If we would believe the letter. But who has seen Johiteon anything else, even when the votes are In and he has the majority T" Editor replies to johnson challenge Attack Characterized at ' California Senator's . , Swan Song " BAN FRANCISCO. Aug. i (By V. P.) Tha attack, upon Andrew M. Lawrence, publisher of the Ban Francisco Journal, and other men calssed-se hla political enemlea by Hiram Johneon, Untied States senator sen-ator from -California, is charaeter-tertxed charaeter-tertxed as the senator's political kwan song. In an answer by Lawrence, Law-rence, published at the head of the Washington Dispatch, recounting recount-ing what Senator Johnson had to ay. . "Senator Johnson Is afraid that mors lettere may be published.1 the Lawrence edltorlsl states. "His attack was not launched because of the Importance of this particular letter Itself. The letter was not obtained by burglary nor k by bribery. , 1 "If 3nwt"r .Tnhnsnn eTercl.il |