Show THIRD PARTY AND JOHNSON Explaining why men engage in inthe the Ithe pastime of selecting presidents Q a special writer says The promoters of Wednesday sights nights banquet to Johnson appear to be some of those figures ho as every presidential year ap ap- approaches ap- ap approaches approaches feel the urge to take a hand In the game pick an ent tent ent possibility and get behind hum him n it Is 15 a fascinating and wholly legit legit- legit legit- legitimate legitimate game You dont don't often win If It you do you YO win big Qualify yourself to be an ambassador or a cabinet t member or a what not The promoters of this particular plunge on the red will need to be extreme extreme- extremely extremely ly 1 plausible and If it they persuade as experienced a person personas personas as Johnson to run ran as their horse home The motive as disclosed quite often is purely elfish selfish Men of m in fluence and wealth take that means of advancing themselves The same writer dealing with the of Hiram Johnsons Johnson's can candidacy forecasts a refusal on the part ot of the Californian to lead an independent cause or attempt to I displace Harding and ann his his- vie s are in line with what The Standard Examiner has said For one thing declares declares the writer Johnson knows that it is almost Impossible to prevent the of a president in of office flee fice who is standing for a second term For another reason Johnson Johnson knows that the very process of making a fight on President Hard Hard- Hard Ing log Ing would entail discrediting the whole Republican and Republican party would pro pre provide vide vale the public with good reasons for turning away from from all jeans whatever and would greatly Increase the chances of a Demo Demo- Democrat Democrat crat winning the subsequent elec clec Lion The prospects of at a a third party winning are tested in the light of at atthe the events of at 1912 with this con elusion As 1 for tor leading a third party Johnson has been through that once and has no illusions about either etler us its pleasures or its proba proba- probabilities probabilities of ot sn success s And It is al al meet an axiom with the politician that n it ita a third party couldn't suc sue succeed succeed teed in 1912 1312 when it h had d the strongest candidate In the country most appealing kind of pf f platform and financial resources without then it Is ia hopeless to expect any allY third party to succeed Those who are familiar with the campaign know Theodore Roose- Roose Roose elt at it the tha Ume time was wail at the th zenith of ot his popularity and voiced ana a na na- nationwide nationwide wide tion-wide protest against the re and machine politicians within his own party His Ills platform was more democratic than that of othe the Democrats It is disclosed In Inthe inthe inthe the foregoing that ho he had ample U fI resources With those facts before him Johnson who was Roosevelt's associate will wll be slow BlowIn In listening to the call of the siren There also Is food for tor thought In the analysis for the Farmer La bor third party advocat advocates s who are building big hopes on the Minne Minue- Minnesota Minnesota sota sots victory victor of or Magnus Johnson and the unrest in jn other states slates where the farmers have failed to obtain their share of ot the the u n try's prosperity |