The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-25
JOHNSON LOSING
IN MINNESOTA
Republican GubernatoriaI Can
didate, Jacobson, Thought
To Be a Winner.
BOTH CANDIDATES POPULAR
JOHNSON is LIKED FOR WHAT HE
is WHILE JACOBSON is WELL
THOUGHT OF BY MASSES FOR
WHAT HE HAS DONE.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 24.-Minnesota
republican leaders profess to see in all
parts of the state decided trend away
| from John A. johnson, present dem
| ocratic governor and candidate for a
third term, and toward Jacob F. ia
cobson, the republican nominee. Both
| candidates are making campaign tours
| covering the territory thoroughly by
| means of automobile trips from town
| to village and from village to hamlet.
Both candidates are popular-Johnson
for what he is and Jacobson for what
| he has done.
Mr.. Jacobson has the advantage Of
having been before the public for a de-
cade and never in any but a favorable
| light, while Governor Johnson has as
an asset his collapsed presidential
candidacy and the theory that if he
suffers no humiliation such as a failure
of reelection that candidacy will be
stronger and more formidable four
years hence.
1t is a peculiar fact that while other
issues" have been brought forward,
| the personalities of the two men occu-
Ply the center of the political stage.
Neither of the candidates accuses his
opponent of being other than man
of honor and integrity. There is no
obvious mudslinging in the contest.
But it is necessarily dinned into the
| -.
| that Governor Johnson is "a pretty
smooth article" that under any cir
cumstances he can acquit himself with
credit to himself and reflect credit on
the state of which he is chief execu-
tive. Suave, self-possessed, and of
pleasing and never failing good humor,
he is contrasted with Mr.. Jacobson,
who is described by republicans who
know him well as man too forceful to
| be a stickler for forms, too frank to
pretend an intimate acquaintance with
the veneer of metropolitan life, but
whose home in Madison virtually is
the center of social life in that country
| town.
| Johnsonites Appeal to "CIass."
| When Jacobson was nominated
word went out from democratic head
quarters in the capital that it was con-
ceded Johnson would not poll as large
a Scandinavian vote this year as he
has in the past, but it was asserted that
he expected an accession Of strength
from the republican ranks among
what was described as the silk stock
| ing element" 1t was asserted that
Jacobson could not attract these votes.
This conclusion frankly was based on
the proposition that a crude farmer
could not please republicans of this
class. Democratic papers of the state
have persistently and consistently
striven to drive home to the voters the
democratic estimate of Mr.. Jacobson
as a man untitled for the governorship
because of his alleged non-observance
of some of the niceties of society.
Among republican politicians of prom
inence a topic of unfailing interest was
presented by the query: will Frank
Eddy's nominating speech about eat
ing pie with knife hurt Jake's
chances?"
Mr. Jacobson is an implement dealer
and farmer. Mr.. Johnson served two
terms in the legislature as senator
His Legislative record is not being
urged upon the attention of the vot.
ers by the democratic spell binders
Mr.. Jacobson was in the legislature fol
many years and he has served on the
board of railroad and warehouse com
missioners. His record as legislator
and administrative officer is being per
persistenly called to the attention Of
the voters. and at republican state
headquarters Jacobson's election is de
clared to be assured.
Widely Divergent Claims.
Chairman Frank A. Day of the demo
cratic state committee declares thai
Governor Johnson will be reelected
, by majority close to 10000. Chair
man A. d. Brown of the republican
, committee is convinced that Jacobson
: will have comfortable majority. HI
is not a claimer his associates at the
headquarters explain. Jacobson's pros
pective majority, as generally esti
mated by republican leaders Will D'
between 10000 and 10000. Some O
: the more optimistic ''figger" experts
) who have been on tour with Mr.. ia
cobson say that he will have mucl
larger majority.
, Given an added impetus by the visi
of Governor C. E. Hughes. the Mime
: sofa campaign along both state ant
: national lines has entered upon an in
terestig phase. Minnesota withou
/ question is for Taft by a large major
ity, and the visit to the state of sucl
a distinguished and generally admire,
: public man as Governor Hughes ha!
: aroused widespread interest in tn
, progress of the campaign on the par
of republicans who have hitherto ap
parently been content to watch from
seats in the grand stand while thu
state committeeman and other trained
workers bucked the line of the John
son democratic huskies.
Judge Taft's recent visit to the Twill
Cities and his tour across the state di