The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-10
DAK0TANS IN
MINNESOTA IN
HOT CAMP
Frazier and Governor
Nestos Both Appear on
Platform in that State
LADD GOES TO RUSSIA
To Take Long Delayed Trip
Quoted as Saying He Sees
Improved Relations

The campaign in Minnesota for
the vacant seat in the United States
Senate is being famed into white
heat this week, with two North Da-
kota speakers of Gov
ernor Nestos and Senator Frazier
joining in. The former is support
ing Governor Preus, Republican can
didate for the seat, holding that the
Democratic candidate has no chance
of beating Magnus Johnson, the
FarmerLabor candidate. whom SEN
ator Frazier is supporting.
Magnus Johnson has a strong fol-
lowing ahd'a well organized cam.
paign. Phil LaFollette of Wisconsin
entered the campaign to add the
weight of his fathers name to the
urge for Johnson. Governor Preus
is being attacked as a reactionary.
On the other hand the Preus sup
porters found an unexpected aid in
J. M. Anderson, former president Of
the Equity Cooperative Exchange,
who has made serious charges
against Johnson.
Here are some of the offenses
which Anderson laid at John
sons door:
FIRST: Magnus Johnson align
ed himself with the faction that
was seeking to destroy the Equi-
ty Exchange, at the same time
posing as a "friend of the farm
er.
SECOND: Magnus Johnson
signed bucketing orders to a
dummy sales organization" con-
trary to the very laws that
johnson helped to enact as q
member of the Minnesota state
senate.
THIRD: This faction within
the Equity which formed the
dummy sales organization"
which Anderson accused Johnson
of supporting, reaped profits of
3 to 2S cents bushel on farm
ers' grain.
FOURTH: While Magnus
johnson was doing this to the
Equity, "more legislation of ben
eft to agriculture" was enacted
under the leadership of Cover
nor, Preus, whom Anderson op-
posed in other years, than in all
the previous history of the
state.
Senator f. F. Ladd of North Da-
kota will soon leave on his long
trip to study condi-
tions in Soviet Russia, according to
a Washington dispatch in the New
York World.
Senator King 3D., Utah) will go
with him and the two will be Joined
in Berlin by Representative Frear
(R. Wis.,. who is now in Europe.
"The Russian Government" Sen
ator Ladd said today, "has ass ured
US of opportunity to visit every part
Of Russia and took into all phases
Of Administration"
The Senator sddei that according
to information he had received the
State Department was making care
full inquiry into conditions.
ITO me-" he continued, "that
points to better understanding in
a. commercial and business way"
The State Department declines to
discuss the matter. The Senators
will be abroad until mid-Ocsober.
The organization work of the Pro-
ducers National. Alliance, which A.
c., Townley undertook, has not sue
ceeded as we'll as it was expected to
by Mr.. Townley. it is. said. The re-
ceipts from the 81 memberships
paid by farmers in some counties,
it is said, have hardly met the ex-
penses of organizations. This fact
ID said to be behind demand :,y N.
K. Wicks, who first gave the Pro-
ducers'' National Alliance plan to
the public, that Townley quit the
organization. He charged violation
of the agreement made with Town
ley, and that the agreement was SO
framed as to give Townley control
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