The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-20
Special Privilege Gets Awful Bump In
 Minnesota Election
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nouncing adherence to the princi-
 ples for which the La Toilette group are banded together, has qualified this afhliation with the statement that he does not intend to accept dictation from any man" in congress. "1 am not quite ready to announce my plans," he said, but you can just bet when 1 want anything done or want to bring anything to the atten- tion of the senate, 1 can make my self heard" Making himself heard' might be accepted literally for the senator-elect has a strong voice, and has said that he can "out-bellow' about anyone who might care to en- ter into competition.
 The election of Johnson as farm |er-laborite makes more chaotic than ever the situation in the United States senate. On the eve of an unusual presidential election year it virtually throws the control of the upper branch of congress into the hands of the democrats and the independents.
 Since their unexpectedly hard knocks in the campaign of 1922 the republicans have lost three members of the, senate by death-Nicholson of Colorado; Nelson of Minnesota and
 
 .A1va Adams-has been appointed to succeed Nicholson; a farmer-labor n-Johnson-has been elected to succeed Nelson, making a complete loss of two votes to the republicans. There Is no question as to the suc- cessor of the late Senator Dilling- ham. He will be a republican of the old chool, for Vermont ever remains regular" even as when 1t and the state of Utah stood alone against the democratic and progressive sweep of 1912.
 A compilation made at the capitol classihes the senate Which meets the first Monday in December as follows: Republicans. so; Demo crats, 43; Farmer Laborites, 2; Re publican vacancy, I.
 On "the face of the returns" this would seem to give the republicans a fairly safe working majority of six votes when the republican successor 10 Senator Dillingham; shall have | been appointed.
 But this majority fades into thin air when 1t is analysed, for chased as are such senators as Brookhart of Iowa, LaFollette of and Frazier of North Da kota.
 Senator Smith w. Brookhart of Iowa, back from a 10 weeks survey | of agricultural conditions in Europe, | declared that the election of Johnson | was a warning to the republican bosses that something was about to happen in the political situation of the United States.
 Senator Brookhart, republican, who was elected with the support of the Farmer-Labor bloc to the seat previously held by Senator William s. Kenyon, touched upon the presiden- .ial situation. Asserting that he had read only three of the speeches which President Harding has delivered on his tour, MT. Brookhart said: I
 q should think that about three 1 more speeches like these would elect | Henry Ford by about 10000, ,ooo ma 1 ority, if the President is a candidate | It Is time the republican party was | ooking for a candidate who will fight | Or the common people. and against | Wall street"
 Elsewhere in his statement the | senator declared that the Russian So- 1iet government was second in sta oility only to that of the United States.
 Asked later about special measures bending led off by Russian recogni- ion, Senator Johnson said:
 Well, forget Russia. I don't want o go on record on Russia now.
 Prohibition? We'll have to see bout that.
 Soldiers bonus? Well, I am for hat and it should be raised by ex- ess profits.
 Supreme court? Well Pm agains, i've to four decisions. You know what that means.
 Tariff? We'll have to revise it. ont know how just yet"
 Then his powerful vocal organs 'oomed farewell with this sentence:
 "Yes, we have good hay crop" { The election result brought joy Ito Senator LaFollette and he will go fight into the presidential primaries lext year on the same general prin- iples. A year ago Samuel Gompers ormally indorsed him as labor's first hoice for President Six months ago when Attorney General Daugherty that Harding would be a candidate again, he regarded LaFol- cite as offering the only serious op position.