Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-09-30


cere to Doth sides that the strike very
soon ended in peaceable manner
without the interference of state
troops and he thereby avoided much
OF the trouble that has arisen from
industrial disturbances in other states
where the militia has been called out.
Governor Johnson's conduct of his
office during his two terms was such
that campaign funds were Unnecessary
after the first election and the cam
patgn literature consisted of a post
card carrying his picture and the le-
gend, Zone Good Term Deserves An
other" ..5 ..-... rs-.-. 1885,. T.
.... Campaign Of 1908. sg
The third campaign was merely a
repetition of the same story, although
his plurality was reduced somewhat.
The republican leaders decided that
Johnson's nationality was the balanc-
ing point that made his reelection in
evitable and decided to put up
Swede against him, and so nominated
Jacob Jacobson. Their choice was
undoubtedly wise, as Mr.. Jacobson
polled much larger vote than Cole
was able to get and cut down John
sons plurality to 2S,139, while Taft
carried the state by 86,442 and Eber-
hart for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, who had
encouraged Johnson to make the first
race for governor, was elected by 55,-
874 on the republican ticket. Gov
Johnson's third administration was
repetition of the other two in the wise
attitude he assumed on all questions
that came up, most of which are re-
cent history.
Presidential Possibilities.
Governor Johnson's first election in
ously by the democratic party at
large, as he was an unknown man and
it was thought that his election was
merely an accident. When he was
reelected the second term by such an
abnormal majority, it was just at the
time when the national party was
thrown into CONSERVATION by the over
the party leaders were looking for a
new man who could harmonic the
warning interests of the Bryan, or sill
YER, and the Cleveland, or gold, wings
of the party.
In such crisis the name of John
son spread through the land and it
was not long until a good fight was
started for the presidential nomina-
ton in 1908. He was handicapped,
however, by the fact that he was still
an unknown man outside of the north
| west He became convinced himself
after the urging of his political man
ager that he might become a Eres.
dental possibility. He set out to ac-
complish this by the same old meth
DDS that made Johnnie Johnson lead
or among the young men of st. Peter
and made editor Johnson a leader
among the older people, a few years
later. He began travelling through
out the country on the Chautauqua
circuit making his strongest appeal
through the south, which section was
more or less dissatisfied with both
elements in the party. He went
among the people as John Johnson the
governor and not as John Johnson, q
political aspirant.
He talked to them Of his policies
along lines that the people at large
were pleased with and on topics en-.
tirely foreign to political matters.
The result was the same as it had
been in his earlier years at home.
Everyone who heard him became his
friend and spoke of him AZ a friend
and acquaintance and felt that they
knew him and sympathizsd with him.
Mr.. Johnson's friends and managers
began to organize his boom In a most
tangible shape during the summer of
1908, but the governor was wise, as
he had been once before when he re-
Foresaw Bryan's Reformation.
He saw, when Mr.. Bryan returned
from his trip around the world, that
his denomination was inevitable, and
he realized that to oppose him was to
only hurt his own chances for a fu'
ture nomination by alternating the
Bryan supporters. For this reason he
permitted merely nominal demon.
stration and received at the Denver
convention small, although enthus.
lastic, support. He accepted the third
nomination for governor and went on
making the strongest campaign he
could for Mr.. Bryan, as well as for
himself, and the result was shown
when it was seen that Mr.. Taft was
able to carry the state by only $4,000,
or barely one.half of Roosevelt's ma.
jority of two years previous.
Since the election Governor Johnson
has made several chautauqua tours
through the central west, In which he
was as enthusiastically received as
before. His career began TO attract
the attention of magazine editors,
after his second election, and the arti-
cles that have been published about
him have tended materially to in.
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