In his broadside Isnnelied at the for
eign policy of the present administra
tion he condemned the United States
attitude toward the present Mexican
situation as "immoral if not illegal."
In favoring the direct primary, Sen
ator Johnson said he deaired only that
the republicans of the country shall
nominate tbeir candidate for the presi
dency. "1 believe in direct primaries
and direct legislation.” he said. “Ob
viously, our opponents do not so be
lieve.”
He made a bitter attack on the ac
tion of the republican national com
mittee in increasing the convention
delegates of southern states a few ^lays
ago after the national convention of
1920 had ordered a just and equitable
basis of represeatation. Nine south
ern stales, be added, which polled 489,
000 votes for President Harding have
134 delegates, two and a half times os
many as Ohio, which polled two and a
half timps as many republican votes as
the southern states. Indiana, lie de
clared, polled more votes than the1
southern states and lias hut 33 dele
gates.
Southern Delegates.
The delegates in Ihe southern states,
he asserted, "are selected by commands
issued in the city of Washington to n
very few federal office holders in the
different states.”
The recent action of the republican
national committee was termed "a re
version to the abhorrent conditions
from which we thought we had
emerged.” * • -
It is. in (he lqst analysis, a test of
popular government, he said.
