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Show GOVERNOR C01 E MR FOB HIRJIM JOHNSON Californian Declared to Stand Out Because of His Progressive Pro-gressive Tendencies REACTION SCORED IN SACRAMENTO ADDRESS Nominee Likens 1920 G. 0. P. Convention to One Bitteriy Assailed By Roosevelt SACRAMENTO, Cal . Sept. IT. In I an address here today opening his California campaign. Governor Cox of I Ohio. Democratic presidential candidate, candi-date, praised Senator Hiram Johnson. I Republican, who reside? here as an ex. penent of progreaslviaia and again flayed "big business." and Republican leaders supporting Senator Hardlnn. Although they differ fundamentally 'on the league of nations. Governor Cox said, he admired Senator Johnson, for frankness and lack of ambiqulty or liyprocracy "He and I do not agree on Inter-; ! national policlep." said Governor Cox to a l.irirc outdoor audience at a noon meeting "but I respect the man for hlG enndvr. I'RAISE FOR JOHNSON "1 have looked with admiration on the fight Which he made throughout the ears against reaction. He fouglu It with Roosevelt and he continued consistently the contest which began In 191 J, through the primaries and the convention of 1920, just as Rooaevelt would have done. "As an Uhloan. 1 give to you the assurance as-surance that the observation made by a distinguished citizen of our state toi the effect that Hiram Johnson was a blackguard and unfit to associate with decent men Is not the view of our people. peo-ple. If Hiram Johnson had been a candidate before the Republican prim-' arks In Ohio this year ho would have' carried them. ILL QUOT PROGRESSI ES 'If the reactionary senatorial oligarchy oli-garchy gains control of the government govern-ment In this campaign. It will manipulate' manipu-late' the power of patronage thai the progressive Republicans will either be compelled to Join another party or to form one of their own. Ret me recall a parallel between the campaigns of 1912 and 1920. Eight years ago Colonel Roosevelt charged that the nomination was made by reactionary re-actionary forces In defiance of the rank and file as expressed at the primaries. In 1920. precisely the same! thing was done and Senator Johnson' was humiliated the- same as Colonel! Roosevelt. To his neighbors when h returned home from the Chicago con-j ventlon this year, he expressed no hit-j tern ess and said plainly that he would rather come back to his home state defeated than to have bet n nominated In the room of a Chicago hotel by representatives rep-resentatives of big business Ills fui -ther observations was "A few men! have set at naught for the time being the American primary system." It Is true, and It would be futile to deny It.j that there are many Cranes, Smoots and representatives of .Morgan and! company, who arrogate to themselves' the ritrbt of selection of candidates, not' withstanding what may have been de-l used b t he peopli them elv n, il. im i i.u ii --. ij uHiiua i on "I am unable to see by what pro-! cess of reasoning the political party j which has glei) to P.oss Harm of New York a distinct status of leadership leader-ship In this campaign can expect the' progressive friends of Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt anil Hiram Johnson to give it support sup-port Barnes was the captain Of the I n lie hip In the DnguaKe of Koose-velt Koose-velt he was the connecting llnl: between be-tween crooked business and crooked politl' s. Doubtless the return to Rarnes is another evidence of golnK' back to normalcy. "Never were so many obligations to' designing interests being assumed byl the party of reaction as in this cam-' palgn. I'ndcr.the belief that disturbed conditions following the war make political po-litical victory certain, methods are followed fol-lowed unhlushlugly und will ! concealment. con-cealment. YT RESENTFUL ' In the great western country, where 1 have been now for two weeks, I find many evidences of resentment i i am convinced that the currents "f independence and progressiva thought will be running so high by Novombi r that unholy enterprises will have been completely engulfed " ' Governor Cox's Culfornia campaign' was In an effort to secure the elector-la elector-la vote which four enrs iko i llncht di the reelection of President Wilson SPEAKS IN AUDITORIUM Leaving Sacramento at 1:35 p. m., the governor was anticipating keenly his address lonlghJ. In the Sap Francisco Fran-cisco auditorium where he waa nominated nomi-nated In the early morning of July B last. He expected, in that setting to contrast sharply the clrcumstunces of his nomination with that oi S-n.iioi Harding, his Republican opponent at Chicago. The governor was due to (Continued on Pago Two.) Governor Cox Has Praise For Hiram Johnson (Continued from Page One.) reach San Francisco at 3 10 o'clock and speak at eight p m. Saturday also will be spent by Gov- j ernor c ox In San Pranclsco except for an evening address at iakland Traveling along the cousi on Sundavl Ban L'irg,, and Los Angeles vvin be visited Monday and Tuesday |