Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-15
Campaign Between Preus and
Johnson Ends Today With
Result Doubtful.
RAIL UNIONS SUPPORT
FARM-LABOR CANDIDATE
Leader of Electrical Workers Issues
Counter Statement Favoring
Governors Policies.
BY n. o. MESSENGER,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 1.-THE Min
nesota senatorial campaign will for
mally come to a close tomorrow night
with an address to a farmers picnic
by Gov. Preus, republican candidate.
and then one of the most important
United States senatorship elections in
many years, in view of the effect the
result may have upon the reorganiza-
ton of the Senate and the party divi-
sions in that body in the next Con-
gress. will be placed in the hands of
the voters Monday.
The voting commences early Mon
day morning and closes at 8 at night,
the polls being held open to allow
the farmers to speed to the polls in
their "Henrys" after the stock is
watered and fed. The result, If the
vote is close. may not be known be-
fore late Tuesday.
Expect Close Vote.
1t is the belief of cautious poll
ticians on both sides that the vote
will be close. The Magnus Johnson
leaders claim his election by 10000.
The republican leaders think Preus
will win by 10000. The sporting tai
emit lays even money on Preus.
heard of one bet of $1,000 and an
other of $500 that way.
Visiting political observers from
other states, realizing the many Ifs"
and "ands' admittedly applying to
the outcome, are cautious in predict
ing. The form" is with Johnson, the
work and organization with Preus.
"If' the republicans can poll their
full strength in Minneapolis and the
southern tiers of con ties and" the
farmers are busy with their crops on
| election day, the republicans will win.
Germans Also Factor.
There are other ifs and ands re-
| iating to the way the big German
vote goes and the way the demo-
| Gratis split their vote among their
own candidate for Senator Carley
and the two other candidates.
Magnus Johnson, the farmer-labor
candidate, has important support
from labor, especially railway labor.
A circular in his behalf has been
issued by the chiefs of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, of the
Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of
Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood
Of Railroad Trainmen, of Shop Crafts,
of Railway Clerks AMI of Mainten-
ance of Way Men.
Lets see what kind of argument
is put up to the labor men for
Magnus Johnson. The circular first
takes a wallop at Preus, who, it says,
will have the backing and ardent
support of the Harding administra-
ton, an administration replete with
records of insincerity anu incon-
sistenoe, equaled only by the admin
istration of the affairs of Minnesota
by Gov. Preus."
Called Efficient Man.
The circular continues: THE farm
err, labor and business men chose
Magnus Johnson as the candidate
of the farmer-labor party for United
States senator; a clean, able, etf1-
Client. honest and capable man. an
everyday man like you and we; o
man so democratic that he delights
to be called 'Magnus.' He is the
modern Cincinnatius adapted to Min
nesota condition called from his
pillow to serve 4. people.
eff elected he VII go to Washing
ton to assist such senators as Ship
stead. La Toilette, Brookheart. Fra
zier, Norris. Hefiin and others of the
progressive bloc who will endeavor to
ascertain why. when sugar can be
manufactured at s3.25 per cwt.. COW
ering all costs, that the people must
pay $40 and s11 for it. Also, when
Ford can deliver coal in Detroit from
Kentucky and Tennessee mines for
IS per ton, why do the coal mine
owners gouge the people of Mime
sofa to the extent of from s12 to SIS
per ton.
Would EnjCin PrOfiteers.
IF workers can be enjoined in the
interest of public welfare, why can
not the coal barons, the sugar prof.
teers, the steel, building material,
cement, wooden. cotton, foodstuffs
and hundreds of other profiteers be
restrained from robbing the people!
We are vitality interested in that
question.
1--WE know the manipulators OF
finance have Debated the farmers.
workers and business men of Minne-
sofa out of many hundreds of millions
of dollars. The federal reserve bank.
by calling in their loans in 1920. in
an eighteen month period Debated the
farmers of the country to the extent
of s12.675,O00. 0O0-a loss sufficient,
had they had it in cash, I'd na-c gone
on the open market and bought up
every mile of railroad in the United
States
But Johnson also has the backing OF
an element not so desirable as the
railway brotherhoods. Today there
came out an appeal for him from the
workers party, radical organiza-
ton, among the leaders of which are
the notorious William 2. Foster and
his fellow extremists The call says