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Well he recalled that Candidate Charles Evans Hughes's failure to shake Hiram Johnson's hand in 1916 had cost him California, and California had cost him the Presidency. The moment the candidate crossed the California State line he came out with a bellow for that "great, fighting, fearless liberal, Hiram Johnson"-isolationist Senator Johnson, who has opposed much that Candidate Willkie stands for, particularly aid to the Allies. To the Willkie overture Senator Johnson made no immediately audible reply...
...Republican pros grumbled that Willkie should have buttered up old Hiram weeks ago, should now have been able to announce dramatically that Johnson was a 100% Willkie man. "No organization," they humphed, and continued to let their candidate carry on alone...
...true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. With that motto as his back drop, Hiram Warren Johnson slicked his parted white hair and posed for photographers. Said he: "I am, as my grandmother used to say, as happy as a clam at high tide." The happy clam had just been triple-nominated for his fifth term...
Senate. He had been nominated by Republicans-who elected him twice as Governor of California, whose Vice-Presidential nomination he, unwisely, let Calvin Coolidge get in 1920. He had also been nominated by Democrats-whose leader he supported in 1932, whose same leader this year repudiated Hiram Johnson as no longer a liberal. He had likewise been nominated by the Progressives, last echo of the party under whose banner he and Roosevelt I tried to capture the U. S. in 1912. In California this November, only Communists and Prohibitionists will run candidates against Hiram Johnson...
...Martin said it was a rebuke to Franklin Roosevelt. Other Republicans found in it a happy portent for Republicanism in general, tried to get Hiram Johnson to endorse Wendell Willkie. Hiram Johnson himself said: "Of course, if they hadn't agreed with my views, they wouldn't have voted for me." All explainers ignored the fact that when a State once acquires a solid admiration for the gnarled-hickory character of an elder statesman it often continues to vote for him regardless of issues -as Idaho did for Borah, as Virginia has done for Glass...