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Show JOHNSON WINS IN PRIMARIES. In California Hiram Johnson has been nominated over a standpatter for U. S. senator. The fight has been a bitter one and has tended to keep the party split betwen the Progressives Progres-sives and Stalwarts. The machinery of the party was entirely in the hands of the opponents of Governor Johnson, but the governor's strong personality won out - On the evening of the primary election, elec-tion, Governor Johnson, speaking ia Oakland, said: "I don't care a snap of my finger about the result of the primary tomorrow. tomor-row. 'We'll whip the enemy in November No-vember in any event. The reason for my confidence Is the rlghteousnes of our cause, and the importance of the issue we are presenting to the people. peo-ple. This is the old, old struggle between be-tween property and humanity, between be-tween the counting house theory of government represented by M. H. de Young and his associates and the interest in-terest of the common people. I stand today just where I have stood for the past six years, for exactly the same things, and if I am sent into the wider arena of national government I shall stand here for the same identical things. Here in California we have written into the statutes the hopes and aspirations, the hearts and the prayers of the common people. This is the glorious story of our State and it is my ambition to write It into the laws of the United States of America." "Does It He In the mouth of little Frankie Keesling, or Will Crocker, to say that there are differences which make co-operation Impossible in California?" Cali-fornia?" inquired the governor. |
