Abstract
PAOLO E. COLETTA'S Most Thankless Task, ' was most interesting, informative, and very pro-Bryan regarding Bryan's involvement with the California Alien Land issue of 1913. However, it would seem that a more adequate explanation of what really happened requires a different viewpoint than just federal involvement in state's right. The Alien Land Law of 1913, as Coletta has pointed out, to some extent was a personality issue. A major part of the issue seems to have been a political contest of the Democrats with Wilson, Bryan, Kent, and Caminetti intriguing from the position of federal control, while the Progressives with Roosevelt, Johnson, and Rowell seem to have taken the position that the Democrats were attempting to play politics by having Hiram Johnson veto the bill.2 That President Wilson had slighted Hiram Johnson can be verified in a superlative study by James B. Kessler, The Political Factors in California's Anti-Alien Land Legislation 1912-1913 (a doctoral dis-
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