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Show SEN. JOHNSON COMING TO OGDEN. Having had the President of the United States with us, we now are i to have Senator Hiram Johnson as a guest. The distinguished senator is to stop in Ogden on his trip through the west and deliver an address against the League of Nations. Senator Johnson is one of the big men of this nation, and he may be 'our president in 1921. Though not agreeing with his views on the I covenant of peace, we recognize in Senator Johnson a politician whose J record as governor of California is above reproach. He stood for I great reforms, and wiped out many abuses in his state. In some quarters quar-ters where men grovel to entrenched power, he might have been called ;a radical, which is a term of opprobium recklessly applied by those who, toadying to others and lacking argument, desire to inflici a stigma. Senator Johnson for years has been fighting the battles of the plain people. He has been standing for the right as he has seen it and the i wonder is that he escaped being marked as "dangerous.." You know, in the days when strong men were fighting rebates, that mcious practice which the railroads once employed, those who bent the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift might follow fawning, called the opponents of rebates anarchists. That was some 30 years ago. Today To-day the man who would attempt to defend that old practice would be ostracised by decent people. And so history repeats itself. Those who now are doing their utmost to correct grave abuses arc slurred by those who seek privilege and bounty. ' There was a time when Hiram Johnson was berated and vilified. He was denounced by papers of the standing of the San Francisco Chroni" cle as a menace to orderly government and, for want of better argu- i ment, he was branded as a Socialist. Today the Chronicle is foremost in advocating him as a candidate for president. We admire public men of the integrity and moral courage of Hiram Johnson, and we welcome the senattor to Ogden and bespeak for him a most respectful hearing. |