Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-27
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer
Magnus Johnson's election as
Farmer-Labor senator from Minne-
sofa was 1925 big political event
to date.
1t was a stiff Republican jolt be-
cause it meant defeat of the adj
ministration's choice. Governor
Preus. Democrats register joy on
account of this, but their own cam
didate was beaten worse than Preus.
Really it was a Third Party vic
tory-a wallop foN Republicans and
Democrats alike
1t may not mean a Third Party
presidential nomination next year,
but it increases the chances of me-.
| With three candidates in the field
it wouldn't be surprising if election
failed to settle the 1924 fight, leav-
ing the House of Representatives
to choose the next president.
Balance of Power
In a way, Johnson's election is
worse for the Republicans than
for the Democrats.
The Republican administration
has policies. 1t can't make them
effective without House and senate
majorities. It hasn't got them. In
both congressional branches the in
| dependents, of various sorts, hold
the balance of power. Johnson will
be a recruit for this group.
True, the Independents may not
help the Democrats to accomplish
anything constructive. The admin
~istration could block that anyway.
But constructive accomplishment
! isn't the Democrats present aim.
With a Republican administration in
office. their games to gum the cards.
Its likely they WILL be able to
make the Independents help them
do this.
AS to the Tariff
Naturally the Democrats will
howl all they're worth about the low
price of agricultural products =
with wheat costing more to grow
than the farmers car sell it for.
The Republicans, when they went
into power, put the tariff away up,
saying the farmers would benefit by
plenty of protection. Prices of ev-
erything the farmers have to BUY
have stayed high. but prices of the
things they have to SELL have
slumped.
The Republicans claim it would
have been worse yet, but for the
tariff in so far as agriculture was
farmers, judging by the Minnesota
senatorial election result.
The farm bloc leaders dictated the
tarig in so far as agriculture was
concerned, so they can't arraign the
Republicans with a very good grace,
but the Democrats can. They said
all along that the tariff increases
were a bad thing.
Alaska All Excited
President Harding, who went to
Alaska to get away from politics, has
run into a political hornets nest
there.
Certain Alaskans claim a few lines
of big business are trying TO gobble
the territory's for them
selves. They charge official corrup-
ton, too.
And they seized the opportunity
when the president was in their
midst to air their grievances.
Dry League Methods
An overhauling of Anti-Saloon
League methods is promised in New
York as a sequel to the Indictment
of State Superintendent w. H. An
derson of the league on charges of
grand larceny and Forgery.
The grand jury recommended a
general investigation by the legis-
lature.
England and France
Premier Poincare of France in a
speech, has definitely turned down
the suggestions of Premier Baldwin
of England for a Ruhr settlement.
Only very unsophisticated folk are
swallowing the story that England
and Nrance really want the same
thing and only differ as to the best
way of accomplishing it.
The truth is that France is trying
to establish herself securely as DOM
inant continental European power
and England's trying to prevent this,
her traditional policy being to keep