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Show uu THE GOVERNOR WHO MADE GOOD The Standard has a high opinion of Hiram W. Johnson, who, in resigning, has ended six years of excellent labor as governor of California. The Sacramento Sac-ramento man entered the office as a protest against machine politics in his slate, and he has made good by being true to his platform pledges. Johnson Is the type of man destined to hold sway in this country. The old politician, who came up from the ward- heeler, Ik passing and with him ia go-inp go-inp much that has heen reprehensible in public service. The Sacramento Bee, at one time one of the most influential party papers pa-pers in California, but now a supporter support-er of independent, progressive Republicanism, Re-publicanism, pays Governor Johnson this trlbue: "The gubernatorial term of Hiram W. Johnson has been one of the most remarkable in the history of this nation. If not absolutely the most remarkable. Certainly in the way of human advancement and humanitarian hu-manitarian progress; of accomplishments accomplish-ments for the benefit of manhood and womanhood, of girlhood and boyhood; for the righting of wrongs; for the amelioration of suffering; for the repression re-pression of injustice; and for the throttling of exploitation of The People Peo-ple by rr edy corporations, no six-years six-years in tl)i- history of any State have equaled the last six in the annals of 1 California Hiram W. Johnson went into of fice as executive of a state in the hands of the Southern Pacific company; com-pany; a state whose legislation I peeked with corruption whose courts even followed only too often the whistle of the locomotive; a :jtate m which vest t'd wrongs held power, and the rights of The People were subservient. sub-servient. Today he leaves a state unshackled; un-shackled; a state in which The People Peo-ple regulate the railroads, and the railroads do not dominate The People, Peo-ple, a great commonwealth whose Ship of State is manned by careful and experienced hands, prudently. Wisely, thriftily, honestly, but not st Ingily. He leaves a state with the most magnificent .system of public hl?h ways of any in the Union highways whose mileage Is to be almost doubled dou-bled within the next year or so. He l'.is a state which he found practically prac-tically bankrupt, not only In honor but in purse, with an overflowing treasury treas-ury and an unstained conscience. What more need be said7 What more is there to say? Suffice It that he has k pt every promise, fulfilled every pledge, redeemed every obligation to The People. 00 |