Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-17
Johnson PILES UP
$1,000 LEAD TO BEAT
PREUSFOR SENATE
Election Turns Minnesota's
Representation Over to
Farm-Labor Party.
"WON'T TAKE DICTATl0N
OF ANY ONE IN CONGRESS"
Bushes Out to Finish His "Haying
After News-For Recognition
of Russia Now.
Nv tho Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 17.-Minne-
sofas representation in the united
States Senate has been turned over
20 the farmer-labor party as the re-
suit of another political transitlon
the state went through in the speclai
senatorial election yesterday;
Magnus Johnson of kimba!i, MILL
q real dirt" farmer, gained the cover
ed post vacated by the recent uealii
of Senator Knute Nelson
when oo43 of the states $500 pre-
cincts had reported. including incom-
nlete returns from every county IN
the state. Johnson's total had mounted
to 217.427. a lead of 53176 over Gov
Preus. The count in those prestH o.,
was: johnson. 2l1,42 freus' io''-
and Carley, 15,99S.
VIII Sit With Shipstend.
Senator-eiect Johnson Will SIT ~ ted
Henrik Shipstead. who was elec.eu
last fall over Frank r. Kellogg. re-
publican. Both Johnson ana snip,
stead are farmer laborites ann nay {
announced their intention to animate
with the followers OF Robert NJ. La
Toilette" in Congress.
Though jubilant over his victory
the real dirt" senator was more con
TO-DAY =,
ing done" than things political. and
he sought 70 postpone staten ems
incident to his election. but did let
drop few remarks.
"wcII. Boys, Put 1t Over"
We'll. boys" he said. IT put 1t
over: ! beat Jake Preus, as SAID
would. Now 1 can go home ana
After that I can do some more or
ganizing before l go to wash
ington."
He wanted to ignore statements as
to his political pian sd fe, aay, bs
hind during the strenuous campaign
he had waged-but now the election
job is out of the way and he can
turn TO the job back home. ,,
zaticn plans he repeated an excerpt
from his campaign keynote speech:
'I will do this because I believe the
inasa men can by united action bet
ter their conditions" r
Wants Russia Recognised. %"
For the present. he preferred not to
discuss recognition Of Russia, though
"between YOU and me am for recog-
milton right away" Prohibition, he
passed over.
Charles r. Adams. chairman of the
republican state central committee, at
trihuted the defeat of Gov. Preus to the
fact that 1.-The best efforts of republican
workers were unable to overcome the
evident feeling of unrest and dissatis-
faction with economic conditions which
found its vent in a protest vote against
the party in power"
Gov. Preus who had announced his
support of the policies of the Harding
administration which had lent Hard
ing versus Lo Toilette favor to the cleo
ton" had nothing to add today to his
brief statement thanking his supporters
for their votes.
May BE Candidate Again.
He will continue as governor until the
expiration of his term, January ], 1925.
He has not indicated whether he will
try for the lone-term senatorial cleo
ton in 1924. for yesterdays election
simply was for the unexpired term of
the late Senator knute Nelson, or until
March. 1925.
Johnson expects to be a candidate for
the long term. friends said.
Senator-elect Johnson, while announc-
Ing adherences to the principles for
which the La Toilette group are banded
together, has qualified this afflliation
with the statement that he does not in
tend to accept dictation from any man"
in Congress.
II am not quite ready to announce
my plans" he said today, "but you
can just bet when I want anything
done or want to bring anything to the
attention of the Senate 1 can make
myself heard"
Can "Out-bellow" Any One.
Making himself heard" might be
accepted literally, for the senator
elect has a strong voice and has said
that he can "out-bellow" about any
one who might care to enter into
competition.
Some of this ability to make him
self heard he ascribes to the lung de-
Valnnmant SNhiactpd
learning the blowing trade in
Sweden when he was in his teens.
lie was born in Varmland, Sweden, in
1871, and came to the United States
and Minnesota when he was 20 years
old.
Johnson's father was a shipowner
iu Sweden, and for some time before
emigrating to America young John
son sailed before the mast. In this
country his first experience included
work as a millhand and lumberjack.
For twenty -four years he has been
farmer at kimball.
Just a Farmer.
The senator-elect insists he lis
nothing but plain farmer" not
worried whether his pants are
90 fa aT S Whe
ing in the Minnesota legislature he
followed the practice of scrutinizing
every bit of legislation before voting
on it. In the Minnesota house and
senate-two terms in the former and
one in the latter-Johnson excited
considerable comment by his oratori-
cal efforts. There never was a COM
plant that some members could not
hear him. he said. and he promises to
hold to this reputation in Washing
Ton"
AS a matter of fact. there is little
of the dialect in Johnson's English.
although he admits difficulty with an
occasional word, but not to an extent
that understanding Is DIFFICULT.
No Novice In Politics.
Mr. Johnson is no novice in Mime
sofa politics. He has been well
known to the farmers of the state for
ten years He was born in Varmland,
Sweden, fifty-two years ago. and at
the age of fourteen was apprenticed
as glass blower. He emigrated to
the United States when twenty years
old and settled in Meeker county,
Minnesota.
From his savings in Sweden and in