Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 12 | Johnson Raps Democrat Rule

beiBk Administration Does Nothing With High Cost of Living Problem, He Says LINCOLN, Neb., April 13. Speaking Speak-ing In connection wll,h his campaign for endorsement by Nebraska voters as a Republican presidential candidate. candi-date. United Slates Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, charged in an address here today that the Democratic Demo-cratic administration "has failed here and trifled there and has done nothing noth-ing nt all," with tho high cost of living liv-ing problem. ' The speaker declared he knew of no panacea for the problem btit that "with the very sufficient power that. It is In Ihe administration it is possible pos-sible systematically and scientifically to begin at both ends of the great chain between th ultimate consumer and original producer until we find , out the weak links find somewhere; between tbo?e two points somethln to remedy and then the remedy can be applied." I Senator Johnson also. attacked what ho declared was a "caluralia of expense ex-pense In the past four years at Wash- Ington" and declared himself in favor of a national budget system to prevent appropriations from bVting mad "in a- log-rolling fashion." "This saturnalia of extravagance that has been extant and rampant at Washington ought to cease." he asserted. as-serted. "It can be made to cease and I trust within a very few months it will be required to cease." Senator Johnson vJho will continue 1 bis- present campaign with an addvess at Seward tonight, also declared that congress will save the people "hundreds "hun-dreds of millions" but cutting down on-the on-the administration's military program." pro-gram." oo