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Show I j MEN AND AFFAIRS AT KS1NGT0N I By R. T. S. Copyright. 1922, by The Standard Examiner, WASHINGTON' Aug 5.-His col leagues in the senate axe watching with keen interest the battle belne j waged bv Hiram Johnson for rrnonii nation in California. Senator John son has been perfectly sanguine of the result of the primaries, but nev ertheless and notwithstanding hj thought it just as well to go home and BOS that everything was all right. . "They tell you to stick here in Washington and the folks back home Will look after you," said the senator' to some of his close friends before ho' departed for the west. "Several sena tors already have been "looked after. I believe the Lord helps those who, help tbeni6elve6." Senator Johnson loves a battle too well to remain idle here In Washington Washing-ton while his lriends were looking out for his interest in the old bear state If there is a head to crack, Senator' Hiram wants to be the first one there to give It a wallop. About the only attack being made upon Senator Johnson by his oppon-j ent, C. C Moore, of San Francisco, who was head of the Pan-Pacific ex-! position in 1915, is that his mind does not run along with President Hard-, ing's. The anti Johnson people are trying to make the Issue an adminis- tration and anti-administration fight,' claiming that the friends of President 1 Harding would like to see Senator! Johnson beaten. The have attempt-j ed to make the relationship between j Senator Johnson and the president "the issue" in tho primary fight Copies of a statement issued by W. B. Mathews one of the Johnson trad ! ers In southern California, denounc- i ing this issues, have been received in ! Washington The statement is in the form of a letter addressed to Senator I T Johnson's opponent, and among other things it says: "You must know as I do, that the relations between the president and Senator Johnson are most cordial, thai ihr president consults the Bens tor on nearly every important national question and that he has olnntarlly exprrssed his respect for Senator! Johnson's sincerity In those instances i when they have not been in agreement In matters ol" public policy. "You undoubtedly know also, a? anyone at all acquainted with officla W ashington must know, that the brll Hani successes achieved by Senatoi Johns. OH is obtaining the higest protec I live tariff sever placed upon Calllor nia's principal product can only mean that he enjoys to fullest degree tho co operation and support of the Republican Repub-lican leaders of the senate for they are the men whose votes and influences influ-ences enabled him to carry his phenomenal phe-nomenal tariff program through " Senator Johnson, by the way, has never forgotten his fealty to the Prog resaive party of 1912 In all the 0fn Clal senate documents he calls himself Republican and Progressive. Speaking of politics Washington has bad another thrill this week It cAmo with the announcement that Will am : Jennings Bryan Is to campaign In, Ne- braska this fall In the interest of the candidacy of his brother, Charles Bfy an, for governor and to advocate the re-election of Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock The healing of Hitchcock-Bryan Hitchcock-Bryan differences in Nebraska is one of the outstanding political Incident-: of this very unusual political year. A notable figure, of the war passed Into the background the past week with the retirement of General Harry L. Rogers as quartermaster of the army General Rogers had served in that capacity during a large part of the war, being recalled from France in 1918 to assume the heavy duties and responsibilities of the great supply i I post. His friends inside and outside 1 of the army made a strong but un successful light for his reappointment It has been said ol General Rogers that with the exception of General I Pershing himself there is no army of-j I ficer bettor known among the men i 1 who served in France His feeding I and clothing of the vast overseas I army, three thousand miles from its ; base, was a feat such as the world had i never known before. General Rogers I was picked by General Pershing from among the younger officers of the army to go to France on his merit and j record in the way that Pershing pick ' ed all of his generals, regardless of age. positfon or political influence. When he returned from France to 1 become quartermaster general. Gen-era Gen-era Rogers brought with him the Intlr I j mate knowledge of the man direct I from the field of battle. He made to the then secretary of war, Mr Baker, 121 recommendations for lmpro ements and economies In administration. Secretary Sec-retary Baker opposed them at first, : but afterwards adopted 19 of the 21 i suggestions and within tht next seven months It Is said $60,000,000 was saved to the nation General Rogers was decorated by noarly every foreign government for his service in France, and also hon ored by the Washington government Frank P. O'Donnell, of Philadelphia, master printer bon vivlant, a visitor in Washington the past week is not ordinarily a believer in spooks, nor Is he at all superstitious. But nevertheless neverthe-less he possesses a flashlight picture of a small dinner party given In Philadelphia Phila-delphia a year ago which causes him to paifse and wonder. When the pic ture was finished it was noticed that the faces of two of the diners wero cast in a shade which made them .scarcely recognizable. Their faces I beemed to have faded out despite the penetrating glare of the flashlight i The fact was commented upon at tho ' time but no particular significance was attached to It , However, within six months after I the picture was taken both of the men were deatL |