Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-08-24
MAGNUS JOHNSON
What Ills Election Means
to the Country and
the Workers
(By Alice Louise Nealeans)

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by the wide awake people of Mime
sofa, editors of daily papers, espe-
cially, have tried hard to tell the pub
lie that a terrible calamity has fallen
on that Republican State, by ridicul-
ing this man of and for the workers.
Unable to find out anything against
his public career or private life, these
writer's strive to picture him as an
Ignorant" rough and loud voiced
farmer, who will disgrace the dignity
Of the Senate! What did Newberry
add to it?
Note these points Of true informa-
tion. He was born in Sweden in 1871
was bottle blower and connected
with the trade union movement there.
He came to America when 21, work.
ed in lumber camps in Wisconsin and
Minnesota, and 20 years ago settled
on farm neear Kimball, Minnesota.
He earned the good will of the people
and served in the House of represen-
tatives in 1915 and 1917-and in the
Senate in 1919 and 1921. Among
farmers and industrial workers he is
valued 100 per cent true blue. For
more than 25 years he has been
leader in the cooperative movement
among the farmers of this great
State.
His election tells the country that
Minnesota knows what is the matter
with the National Government, and
has done her best to help give farm
ers and workers a fair chance for
square deal and security. He is call
ed Ignorant" while on the contrary
he received an excellent common
school education in his own land and
since coming here he has studied hard
and learned we'll the lessons in the
big school of life. He is truly great
man.
Why are bankers and politicians
afraid of him? He knows the prob
lens of the farmers and the indus
trial workers from A to z. He is also
a practical, successful business man.
With all this to his credit what have
his opponents to say? Let the truth
put them to shame. Magnus Johnson
does not bring to the Senate any taint
of political intrigues, but is man tit
for the trust bestowed upon him by
the State of his adoption. His Ielec-
ton is tribute to the intelligence of
the voters who selected man so we'll
prepared for the work before him.
He was elected because the voters
had the common sense to forget party
ties and vote for worker, rather
than for a politician of Preus's kind
who is owned by the Especial inter-
ests." A majority of $4,000 votes
tells a fine story. johnson is not OF
either party, but an Independent sup
ported by the Farmer-Labor Party,
and all other great hearted thinking
voters who knew they were right in
approving of this man of free
thought, action and speech. He is a
fine campaigner and his speeches are
like himself-honest, unafraid and
true. He may prove to be a second
Lincoln.
Minnesota has added a second man
of the people to stand with their
other Senator, DR.. Shipstead previ-
ously elected. These men will set the
State before the eyes of the country
in the next Congress-where in the
Senate will be fought a Battle Royal
showing how the wind blows as to
the next administration. With all of
Johnson's practical knowledge on the
situation of farmers, and with his
understanding of the workers prob
lens, the special interest legislators
will find an opponent worthy of the
tilt.
The sad complaint about Johnson's
ignorance" is actually amusing. We
have had all sorts Of educated brains
including an over abundance of Law
yer's brains in Congress for years
and the condition of our country is
therefore the result of such brains
of education-which plainly speak
ing-is nothing to their creditor
legislation has not been for the people
but for the special interests.
Just such men as Johnson, with his
practical experience-are needed in
the Senate and House to fight for the
good of the country now under In
junction Rule and Supreme Court
Over-Rule Mr. Johnson knows life as
a worker. His voice may be strong,
but it will, fearlessly tell labor's
enemies what is coming into the Con-
gress now ruled by money and its
power.
Johnson's election calls to every
State in the Union to come out with
candidates we'll tried in labor's cause
men and women who have stood for
toilers either in the ranks of labor or
as Conscientious intellectual workers
in their respective professions? For
get your party and vote for man or
woman who has a clean record to his
or her credit, and stands against in
junction rule and all that oppresses
humanity.
Magnus Johnson's election has set
the people to thinking and that think
ing will result in doing and that do
ing will undo some of the wrongs in
flicted upon labor by the courts and
legislators who are merely tools IN
the hands of big business. Voters
are now valuing their vote and Will
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