Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — HI JOHNSON’S SUPPORTERS [ARTICLE]

HI JOHNSON’S SUPPORTERS

In speaking of the Hi Johnson victory in the g. o. p. presidential race in Nebraska, a Washington dispatch says, among other things: The campaign made in Nebraska, by Hiram Johnson for the Republican presidential nomination was a fortunate thing for Bryan. The German vote, which naturally would have been friendly to Hitchcock in his contest with Bryan, cast their influencd in the Republican primary in order to bring about the nomination of Johnson and thus express their hatred of the league of nations. According to dispatches from Nebraska Johnson carried some German precincts unanimously. It was thus largely the candidacy of Johm son that enables Bryan to go to the Democratic convention and make a fight against a “wet”plank, which plank t is a thing greatly desired by the very influences that deserted Hitchcock for Johnson. Along the same line w the Chicago Tribune said: Reports from Nebraska say that Mr. Bryan, elected against great opposition to the Democratic nations,! convention as delegate-at-large, owes his success to the decision of the German-American voters. They are “wet,” but they are anti-treaty. They wanted to vote agaipst Bryan because he does not like beer, but they had to vote for Johnson because he does not like the treaty. They let the “dry” into the convention by turning from the Democratic contest to vote for Johnson in the Republican.