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Show !i 1 THE STANDARD LEADS. I I The Standard prides itself on having been the first paper in : k I the United States to advocate Roosevelt and Johnson as the Repub-' Repub-' I ' lican standard bearers in the present national campaign. Since the J It I ' Standard's first announcement of its ticket, many other papers : ST I have placed the two men at their mastheads and have followed the I' I leadership of this paper. J 1 v I Both Roosevelt and Johnson are a source of deep enmity on I the part of the reactionaries and dailjr are the object of attack, but 1 ', I the desperate, bitter opposition has helped, rather than injured, . I their cause. Roosevelt has been berated as a scrub, and a fool, and ' J I now the Standpat press is referring to Johnson in the same uncom- , I plimentary terms and his popularity in California is represented , 1 as havjng been destroyed by his demagogic conduct as governor. I These false charges might deceive the people did they not kow that I Gov. Johnson headed the campaign for the Roosevelt delegates in W California during the popular primaries in that state in May, bore M the blunt of the attacks of the reactionaries and came out of the fl contest with the greatest majority ever recorded for any cause in - the state of California. Ei |