Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — Hiram Johnson Elected To Senate By Big Lead. [ARTICLE]

Hiram Johnson Elected To Senate By Big Lead.

What is the matter with California? Bad management; that is plain. Governor Johnson, running on the same republican ticket with Charles E. Hughes, was elected to the United States senate by a plurality estimated to be between 275,000 and 290,000. Hughes lost the state apparently by a small plurality. It is charged that when Hughes made his famous campaign trip to California several months ago he ignored Johnson, who was the progressive governor and the candidate of that party for vice president four years ago.~lt4s- said that everywhere. Hughes went he was attended by opponents of Governor Johnson for the senatorial nomination. Johnson won a sweeping victory at the primaries. The state committee was reorganized and Johnson ment placed in‘control. Johnson steadfastly urged the election of .Hughes but his advocacy faded to swing the voters and evidently the national committee failed in an important need in management. The same is true in Ohio and doubtless m other states and republican defeat seems to to chiefly due to poor direction. , It is said that Hughes was kidnapped by anti-Johnson men in California and that he was an unwilling victim of their scheming. The vote against Hughes in th at state, how - ever, seems to have been a final slain at those who opposed Johnson and this and other instances show that the election of President Wilson was not altogether an approval of his administration nor an expression of confidence in him but was the result of the differences of two and four years ago and some mighty popr politics that did not take measures to cement the shattered fragments of previous for the country’s welfare in the future.