The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-10-20
WHAT J0ANS0N'S ELECTION WOULD mean,
of the Reasons Why Republicans Should Not
Vote for John A. johnson.
what JoglnSon'S Election Would Mean.

What Jonnsons Election Would Mean.
What reason can be given why any
intelligent Republican should give
his vote to the Democratic candidate
for governor instead Of to the Repub-
lican nominee-to Johnson instead of
to Dunn? On the score of ability and
character Of experience and training
in the business of the State, Dunn has
immensely the advantage OF Johnson.
The latter has absolutely no record
of honorable or efficient public SER
vice. Dunn's official history has been
so fruitful of achievement for the pub
lie good that the State platforms OF
the Republican party for years have
been the recital of his successes.
Johnson's only experience in public
life has been as a State senator and
in that capacity he has left no i'm
press upon the legislation of the State
except as a marplot and a mischief
maker. Dunn has been the originator
of some of the most benefcent laws
upon the statute book. No one has
ever yet been able to give a solitary
reason why any Republican should
not vote for Dunn. Still less why he
should 60 over to the enemy and vote
for the negative quantity at the head
of the State Democratic ticket.
But suppose the Democratic asump-
ton were true, or, in other words,
suppose the stories are true which
credit certain influential men in the
Republican party with desire to de-
feat Dunn in order to further the OBJ
jects of their own political ambition
or to satisfy their own political VEN
geance. and that they were able
through a propaganda of malice and
faleshood to get enough Republicans
to vote for Johnson to elect him
what then? This thing could not be
done in a corner. Loyal Republicans
would know and remember the secret
conspirators who had thus betrayed
the party with a kiss. The seeds of
factious animosities would be sown
which would disorganize the party for
years to come. Partly as the result
of their animosities, if Johnson is
elected in 1904 in spite of the strong
Republican tide of the presidential
year, he would almost certainly be
reelected in the off year 1906. He
would have the patronage Of the State
within half that time he would have
turned out every Republican holding
an appointive Office and filed his
place with Democrat. He may not
be very smart himself, but he would
have behind him as his councillors
some of the shreWdest Democratic
politicians in the west. And they
would play their cards for the highest
stakes. The Republican conspirators
for the defeat of Dunn would be hand
in hand with these cunning Democratic
gamesters. The first object of the
combination would be, if possible, to
defeat Clapp for the United States
senate with another Republican at the
next session of the legislature-and
their next to defeat Nelson two years
from now. Why is John Lind, who
has always hated johnson for his op-
position as senator to his pet meas
ures when governor, now SO anxious
for his election? Because John Lind
sees in the election of johnson the
probable means to beat Nelson for
the senate in 1907. A recent editorial
in the Svenska Folkets Tidning-a
Swedish Republican paper-recently
quoted by the Pioneer Press makes it
plain that the influences which have
brought that paper to the support of
Johnson are seeking the defeat of Mel
son, against whom it openly avows it's
hostility.
The election of johnson would there
fore mean not only the disorganiza-
tion of the Republican party, but it
would greatly endanger the reelection
of Senator Clapp next winter and
would be serious menace to the cleo
tion of Nelson or of any other Repub-
lican senator in 1907. The Republi-
can voters of Minnesota are not likely
to lend themselves to this artful game
of the cunning combination of Repub-
lican conspirators and their Demo-
cratic allies.-Pioneer Press.
What Would be Accomplished?
If it were possible to elect Demo-
cratic governor what would be &C
complished? It is a computation of
loss rather than of profit. In Robert