Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-11-11 | Page 6 | Johnson Accuses the Newspapers

JOHNSON ACCUSES THE NEWSPAPERS San Francisco, Nov. 11. Governor Hiram W. Johnson, successful candidate candi-date for the United States senatorship on the Republican and Progressive tickets, issued a statement today charging that "a few petty politicians" acting in conjunction with certain newspapers "so missused Mr. Hughes and his visit to California that the injury in-jury they did we were unable to undo." To this the statement ascribes the Wilson plurality in the state. William H. Crocker, Republican national na-tional committeeman, and Francis V. Keesling, former chalrmaa of the Republican Re-publican state central committee, are named as having' "made it appear that Mr. Hughes was entirely reactionary, and that he was neither in accord with, nor in sympathy with California's Califor-nia's progress and achievements." Mr. Crocker, after reading a portion of the statement, said, "I will say nothing noth-ing on this." rn