Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Taiegraphlc Reports From Many Paris of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. FLAYS HI JOHNSON DESERTERS Nebraskan Makes Public Senator’s Note Branding Faith-Breakers. Lincoln, Neb., June 24. —F. A. Harrison of Lincoln, manager for Senator Hiram Johnson’s Nebraska preference campaign, who recently declared that “the treachery and desertion of the delegates from instructed states broke the heart of the Johnson movement,” has-made public a personal note from the senator, in which the latter said he desired to take steps to “hold up to deserved public obloquy and scorn’* those who, he said, “broke faith” at Chicago. Senator Johnson said he planned to make this' move in every state where “the crime was done so that the people may be protected in the future when they express their choice for president” * He added: “To be frank with you, I never doubted what the Nebraska delegation would do, but I knew you were exerting yourself to the utmost to prevent the betrayal. Let’s make it Impossible by branding these scoundrels and prevent a recurrence of such treachery." In bls recent accusations against delegates from instructed states, Harrison declared that “just two men on the Nebraska delegation at all times tried .to obey the instructions of Nebraska.”