MINNESOTA ANSWERS: LA FOLLETTE AS AGAINST HARDING
Minnesota Answers: LaFollette As Against Harding Editorial From The Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, Wm. T. Evjue, Editor irjr AKlilJNU or l,a Foilette. H Tnat» sa*d the metropolitan newspapers...
...They made fan, of him because he didn't wear a collar at some of his meetings...
...Reactionaries, however, are always inept at judging mass psychology...
...Johnson, a man without the social graces of a Kellogg and without the perfumed polish of a Cabot Lodge, was lampooned and derided by Minneapolis, Chicago and New York newspapers...
...P * * *T< HE election in Minnesota will be diffi-* cult for the old guard forces to explain...
...H Tnat» sa*d the metropolitan newspapers during the campaign, was the issue represented in Minnesota in the fight between Gov...
...It had all the bitterness of campaigns that are waged between progress and reaction...
...Then Shipstead and "Johnson in Minnesota, Frazier and Ladd in North Dakota...
...The election in Minnesota lends further argument to the statement that the people of this country can obtain redress for their wrongs through the ballot...
...They were unable to see that the farmers were more , interested in having a man in the halls of the United States Senate who, though uncouth, would have the heart and desire to say "Yes" to roll calls in behalf of the peo^-pie...
...Minnesota has served notice on the old parties that she is through with them until such time as they will again serve the people rather than the interests of the few...
...Minnesota, found- < ing a party of its own, has found a way to political emancipation from the owned and controlled parties of old...
...T'HE campaign just closed in Miune-«¦ acta has been bitter...
...They were unable to see that this campaign of ridicule only helped Johnson with the Norwegian and German farmers of Minnesota...
...Bulldozed by the reactionary press with the statement that a victory for Johnson would be a victory for La Foilette and a repudiation of Harding, Minnesota proceeds to repudiate both Harding and the kept press...
...In Michigan there is Ferris...
...The result in Minnesota is but another significant herald of the new era of democracy that is in the offing...
...THE news that comes out of Minnesota should once more serve to bring encouragement, to those who are working and hoping for the day when government will again oe restored to the people and when the powers of predatory privilege will have relinquished its hold on the throats of the people...
...They ridiculed him and made fun vof him...
...The great granary state of the northwest has again told the nation that it prefers to stand with La Foilette and Johnson ?.nd progressive principles as against, Harding and Preus and reaction...
...WISCONSIN particularly should feel " gratified over the result...
...Will the old parties have the vision to ponder over' the election figures that are today coming out of the northwest...
...Lined up against Johnson, were the national administration and the immense power that it is able to wield, the reactionary newspapers and the powers of organized wealth...
...They laughed at his Scandinavian dialect and his inability to function faultlessly in the king's English...
...Minnesota is not afraid to send a real "dirt farmer" to the sacred portals of the United States Senate...
...Do you know that you can now start at Detroit and go to the Pacific coast without leaving territory represented in the Lmted States senate by one or more progressives...
...J. A. 0. Preus and Magnus Johnson in the senatorial election held July 16...
...We are steadily but surely emerging from the dark era of reaction in which we were plunged by the war...
...Minnesota believes that this country will fee better served by having a few farmers in the "senate and less of the cultured steel trust and railroad sena^prs...
...Isn't that a far flung front in which1 progress can meet the battalions of reaction...
...State after etate is being won to forward looking principles...
...Last fall, when state after state encompassed political revolutions and sent .half a dozen members of the old guard to political oblivion, it was said that the conditions which made these defeats possible would soon disappear...
...Minnesota again firmly places its stamp of approval on the Wisconsin idea...
...Minnesota,—old Wisconsin salutes you...
...Minnesota now tells the nation that it is more firmly opposed to the Harding policies than ever...
...Crossing.the border into Wisconsin there is La Foilette...
...The new progressive front in congress will stand as a greater challenge than ever to the continued advancement at reaction...
...Minnesota is not afraid to stand and be counted under the banner that has been kept aloft during these trying years by that sturdy champion of the people's rights, —Robert M. La Foilette...
...Minnesota has given its answer...
...Borah in Idaho^ Wheeler in Montana and Dill in Washington...
...The newspapers, those catspaws of the hands that feed them, conducted a vieious campaign against Johnson...
...Minnesota, rock ribbed republican state of old, stands today without old party representation in the United States Senate...
Vol. 15 • July 1923 • No. 7
