New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-10-28
Republican Managers SGrutinize
Governor J0hnsOn's Acts
Without Success.
MAN OF NATIONAL REPUTATION
Name Of Minnesota Executive
a Synonym for Honesty
and Integrity.

i For four years John A. Johnson has
BEEN governor of Minnesota. For
three months campaign has been in
hse1ress In this state locking to the
blsotton Of ]. r. jacobson as his sue
cessor. During this time political feel
fnE has, in the nature of things, run
high. Mr.. Jacobson's managers, In JUS
Hce to their candidate, have closely
scrntinixed the governors omcial rec
ord. II that record has developed cul-
pability his committee has been clear
" within its rights in criticising it.
With only ten days Of the campaign
remaining absolutely no criticism OF
John A. Johnson as governor of Min
hesota has been made. Mr.. Jacob
sons newspaper organs, taking their
cue from the Republican state central
committee, have been unable to find
single flaw in the governors Official
record. They have, therefore, been
forced to deseend to campaign tactics
which assai1 the governor for q vote
on some obscure bill during his term
of Office as state senator, nearly ten
years ago. The governor stands on
his whole record, whether as senator
br governor, but it is reasonable to
suppose that, as he is candidate for
reelection to the Office of governor,
his record as governor, after four
years of service as the chief executive
of the state, should be the test of his
fitness for the office.
John A. Johnson is on the threshold
Of a career which will not confne his
Activities to the state of Minnesota
He is one of the best known men Of
The American nation. His name,
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, is a synonym for honesty of
purpose, wide sympathy with the
great mass of our population, keen
and incisive intellect that goes
straight to the heart of things, and
sound judgment that places him on
the right side of all the great ques-
tons agitating the public mind and
public conscience. In New York and
New England he is regarded as COM
Ing man in the political life of the
country; he is the idol of thousands
L Il
states; he is the pride and glory of
the people of his own nationality in
the Middle and Western states, and
he is certainly the favorite son of
Minnesota. To listen now to the APP
peals OF mere partisans, who would
curb his future and circumscribe his
| career, would be an error which the
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live to regret. He has brought more
lame to Minnesota than any man or
Set of men ever produced by the state,
and his triumphant reelection will be
regarded by the people of the country
rs justification of the claims made
for him by his friends throughout the
/ United States that his public career
has but just begun. Not only the peo-
pie of his own political falkland
they are all proud of him-but those
Minnesota citizens who differ from
him politically, have an equal pride
with Democrats in. his success this
year.
He has made his fight for re-elec
4 ton almost single-handed, and against
him have been pitted the great lead
ers of the opposition party in the ma
ton. Not only has Mr.. Taft come tt
Minnesota, out Governor Hughes, Sen
Rtor Beveridge, Governor Cummins
and Senator Dolliver have sounded
the tocsin and cried for party loyalty
that this solitary figure, looming large
In the North Star state, may be de
feated and his public career destroyed
All of these men have the greatest
admiration and respect for Governor
Johnson. and their coming to thi:
state is simply in Difference to party
discipline and the fear that, should
Johnson win in Minnesota in a pres
tdential year, he will become a grea
national possibility in another ma
tional campaign. It is up to the PEG
pie of Minnesota to do justice b,
John A. Johnson
The highest tax which a Repub
Nean state administration ever com