| Show j jj j Johnson or c Seeking Presidency r. r I IRes IRe's es Here ere to Fight Covenant if F Hope ope s Ti Tied d to Tr Treaty aty Fight I y ERE he is in action H HERE 1 Sena Senator Senator t r Hiram W. W y Y Johnson 0 of California who is IS here to speak agan against nation nabon league covenant Y f P x T h i r I Ani Am Against Covenant as It Stands and Have No Hesitation ti ri in Saying So California Califon ia S Senator Says on Arrival By F. F E. E Becker Becher v I I Hiram W W. Johnson I is 3 I S SENATOR in Utah today He has come to tol l talk against the league of nations na na- na- na covenant co and he ho is carryIng carrying carry- carry Ing ng a wallop in either ither mittI mitt I have brought no particular message message mes mes- sage to Utah where I understand the league covenant co has been hotly de- de hated I- I Iam am simply talking t to the American people not to any particular I patty party or creed I am against the league of nations as far Car as the draft of the proposed covenant is concerned land and I 1 have no hesitation in saying sayings s 0 I Such were the tho words of the tho fighting i senator from California as aI he stepped f from oni the tho train at Ogden this morning spEAKS SPEAKS IN OGDEN I He spoke this afternoon at the Junction City Tonight within the very walls that so recently echoed to toI II the earnest appeal of the nations nation's i I chief executive Senator Johnson will willI i j i attack President VII Wilsons Wilson's sons son's speech j I heard by persons in the Tab Tab- Because o of his fiery attacks as he has swung around the great circle his remarks against the league I have attracted general attention It Itis is almost a certainty that another oth r i I great reat crowd will surge through the I Temple grounds gates to hear him j I PARTY WITH HIM Senator Johnson travels with an imposing array of personal advisers I and newspaper men His party takes tales j on the dignity of ot national importance His words are art flashed all over the I world as he seeks to exp expound 11 his i version of oC the great struggle now now going forward in the halls of congress There is no secret about It Senator Johnson hopes to be the next president president dent of ot the United States He is now campaigning the country in that hope He has tied his strings to the world league covenant Should he and his part party emerge with a remodeled covenant covenant cove cove- nant it will be a great party part ictor victory I For Senator Johnson It will be a personal personal personal per per- victory because he believes believe with his entire soul that the present draft I of ot the covenant cO will be a dire national calamity He is shouting this belief belle from every platform lIe He is thinking and talking o of nothing else BREACH OF FAITH It is the first time in the history of ot the United States that this country I has been a party part to a breach of ot faith or has ever despoiled a friend he exclaimed ex exclaimed ex- ex claimed hotly today when asked what I he would sa say on the Shantung contro- contro versy I r would not have hae my country a party to a fraud or a moral wrong It is wholly apart from the question to insist that China has been robbed in the past That may be so but we have never been a a. pa pasty ty to It When Japan insisted on having Shantung and we yielded to that demand we became a party to a great wrong and the tho peace treaty tr aty would perpetuate that wrong WILL ANSWER WILSON It is almost a certainty that thai the senator senator sen- sen ator will take up the presidents president's Salt Lake address from the very same platform platform plat- plat form and seek seel to rend it paragraph I from paragraph and word from word I I I A And nd he minces no language Here is isI isa I I a part rt of hat he said this morning morning- I The president in his spee speeches in Salt Lake and antI elsewhere has made It plain that neither amendment nor reservation reservation reservation res- res must be made to the league of nations At Salt Lake in his resentment resentment resentment resent resent- ment and ire Irp he exclaimed as he read it that a mild reservation which provided provided provided pro pro- vided that our armed forces forcE's should not noti I i I be employed without the consent of congress would cut the heart out o of the the I covenant and that its adoption he ho i would consider a rejection of the i treaty Isis His construction of article ten i t the far tar reaching consequence of ot which I cannot now be estimated or foreseen has differed apparently with his en enI environment environment en- en but fortunately Is now I clear At Spokane he said It does not guarantee against invasion but It does guarantee against an any permanent permanent permanent perma perma- nent occupation of invaded soil soli a aluminous aluminous luminous exposition which will enable I the most obtuse at once to tu comprehend comprehend compre compre- I hend bend Its meaning Ii i ARGUMENTS ATTACKED I I At Indianapolis he explained there is In that covenant not only not a I surrender of oC the independent judgment judgment judg- judg judgment ment of oC the United States but an I expression of it ft because that Independent independent independent inde Inde- pendent judgment would have to Join with the Judgment of ot the rest and b by these lucid words pierced the at atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere at- at of doubt and ambiguity At At Salt Lake reserving under the constitution the right o of congress to act as a rejection of ot the covenant covenant- I Iah ah absolute refusal to carry any part of the same sam responsibility that the j i Continued on page 3 I j I JOHNSON SEEKING Continued from page pago 1 other members of r the league as as- as sume Thus to an anxious and expectant I nation in words that cannot be mistaken mistaken mistaken mis mis- taken misconstrued or misunderstood with his usual precision and clarity of expression he has hal demonstrated that under the league of nations our country preserves Its Independence of action but does not preserve it the heart is cut out of the covenant and the treaty Is rejected The demonstration demonstration demonstration demon demon- rivals the mental gymnastics and the mathematical paradox by which one American vote has been proven to equal six British votes TWO-FISTED TWO TALKER There was a whole lot more along the same lines and the people will hear it tonight lie Is a two-fisted two talker and he rams his facts home His hearers will know more about the league of nations after they have heard him than they do now I I i When the senator arrived at Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den this morning he was met by a considerable delegation which was Ikea kept waiting for two hours through delays of his train They were allgood all allgood allgood good staunch Republicans who greeted him with now and then a Democrat but it was too early in inthe inthe inthe the morning for tor marked tion lion WHAT CLARK SAYS As the senators senator's train pulled In another train pulled out tatting taking the private car of former Senator Clark of Montana I caught Senator Clark Just before he left and told him that Hiram Johnson was coming In Yes I know Inow It and I have been following his speeches and all I want to say Is ismore J more power to himAs him As the California s senator stepped from the car hu was followed closely I by Alexander McCabe state insurance commissioner of California who acted as his private ate secretary when Johnson Johnsoni I was governor of California McCabe isnow Isnow is isnow now Lis closest adviser and might w wll li be termed his campaign manager W. W Russell Cole a prominent insurance broker of San an Francisco Francesco is also with withas I him as adviser Among the newspaper men who are with him are Carlos V V. V of or the Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- Sac Sac- Bee Dee II W. W Thompson of the Associated Press W W. H. H Jordan of the Universal service and Elford Eddy of the San Francisco Call GREETED BY REPUBLICANS First to greet the party was Henry Welsh of Park City chairman of the I Republican state committee and Judge Everard BIerer of Salt Lake In the I Ogden committee which received him Ii were W W. H. H Wattis J J. J U U. Eldredge Jr John C. C Davis Arthur Woolley F F. F J. J Hendershot Charles R. R Hollingsworth A. A P P. Bigelow J. J W. W Abbott Judge Judge N J. J Harris Don C. C McGuIre l Charles II H. Barton and I Frank rank M M. Driggs Expressing themselves as being hungry the new arrivals were whisked away to the Reed hotel where they breakfasted after which they were I f kY l taken for tor a drive about the city i Senator Johnson spoke at the Alhambra Alhambra j bra theatre In Ogden and will appear I in Salt Lake at 8 3 at the Tabernacle o'clock tonight No scats w will 1 be re reserved reserved re- re Is In- In served and the general public I must hurry back to Washington said the senator because the vote on reservations Is coming comIng coming com com- some important ing up This will be my last speech I before going to the capital Mrs Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son will join me tomorrow coming and Wf we will go on toMy to I through Ogden ss y My friends the W Washington newspaper men will will d disband band and go to I their several homes |
