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Show mm mem is sot oomsi SACRAMENTO. Cal., June 23. Speaking publicly for the first time since the Republican convention In- Chicago, United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson told a few hundred of his homo town people, who greeted him at tho Southern Pacific depot, that he was not downcast over the result. Senator Johnson passed through i Sacramento en route to his home in I San Francisco. i I Overcome by the warmth of the re-' ception and the cries of "speech," Johnson stepped onto the platform of his Pullman and told the crowd how glad he was that California, and particularly par-ticularly his home city, gavo him such a tremendous vote at the presidential, primary election. "Don't Imagine I'm cast down by tho result of the convention," said Senator Johnson. "I'm happier than ever before. I started the campaign on n shnpfrlntr nrrl whan r r.t- through I had the people of the United Uni-ted States with mo, even though I could not win the majority or the delogates. I "1 went into the fight in one fash-' Ion and came down in tho same fash-1 ion. I made no compromises, but fought to my laat ditch. "It doesn't make any difference if a' few politicians sitting in the Black-stone Black-stone hotel in Chicago said 'The people bo damned,' for the time is coming when the people will come into their own. j "The future will find me as good-! natured and ns full of fight as over, ' and determined that in time to come the people shall rule Instead of a few! men and International bankers sitting' in New York. I "Politics Is behind mc for the tlmo being. I won't discuss or deal wlthi them until I havo had a little onjoy-mcnt onjoy-mcnt In dear old California." Grove L, Johnson, the sonator's aged father, was tho first to greet him when he stepped from the train. |