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Hiram W. Johnson. The Senator from California last week watched the rapid and vigorous expansion of his boom under the direction of his able and active manager, Frank H. Hitchcock. Johnson has not the organization backing of Coolidge, and he has alienated some Progressives who formerly supported him, such as Borah and Norris, by being "conveniently absent" from the Senate when the attempt was made to oust Newberry, and by voting for the Fordney-McCumber tariff. Nevertheless his campaign is professional, well-financed, well-organized -and to be reckoned with...
Meanwhile, like young Lochinvar, Senator Hiram Johnson, namesake but not relative of Magnavox, has ridden out from the West. As his steed he has chosen Frank H. Hitchcock--"astute broker of delegates" and conductor for Taft in 1908, for Hughes in 1916, and for Leonard Wood in 1920. Mr. Hitchcock's greatest strength lies, so it is whispered, in his control over southern delegates. But in the unusual task of pledging these "rotten horough" representatives to Johnson, the progressive candidate, Mr. Hitchcock will meet the redoubtable Mr. C. Bascem Slemp, who, although he has not been appointed campaign manager, presumably...
Senator Johnson's campaign pronouncements have been noticeably mild and have had more the ring of astute politics than of reforming zeal. It is significant, perhaps, that Mr. Hitchcock has replaced Senator Borah and that the latter is almost partial to Coolidge. Certainly there is nothing very inspiring in more denunciation of the League of Nations and a lukewarm domestic policy...
...Johnson's choice of a campaign manager was not unexpectedly mild. He chose Frank H. Hitchcock, who belongs to the tooth-and-nail school of campaign management. He conducted Taft in 1908 (and was Postmaster General in Taft's Cabinet) ; he conducted Hughes in 1916; and he conducted Leonard Wood on an expensive trip to the Convention in 1920. He is known as a specialist in Southern delegates, and there should be a keen duel between him and C. Bascom Slemp for the delegations from the South? although there will not be so much to quarrel over since the Southern...
...other candidates have wealthy friends or relatives and several are themselves very wealthy? Underwood, McAdoo, Pinchot, for example. But with Mr. Hitchcock in command Mr. Johnson's campaign should be notable for the flying of fur and money, wherever it can advantageously and quietly be spent...