Evening star., 1923-07-20
Radical Waue IN Minnesota
Seen Engulfing Au Northwest
Desperate Mood of Farmers OUer Lou
Prices May S,ceep More of Johnson
Type Into Po,cer.

Omega of Magnus Johnson's right to
be a senator of the republic has been
said.
No, Minnesota did not choose the
one-time Swedish glassblower to fill
the seat once adorned by a Window,
a Ramsey. IA Davis, a Nelson and a
Kellogg because of the color of his
sky-blue Scandinavian eyes. 1t pre-
ferred Johnson, radical. to Preus.
| republican conservative, because it
was bent on filing a bitter, deter
mined, resonant protest against
things as they are. That's the long
| and short of the Minnesota senatorial
result.
Criticism of Governor.
There are side-issue explanations
! galore. Gov. Preus made political
enemies within his own ranks. He
should have appointed a republican
to fill knute Nelson's place instead
of attempting to crafty his own
ambition to secure it. He should
| have let the Legislature elect Nelson's
successor. He played radical politics
during the past six months of his
! gubernatorial term. He did this; he
| did that. He should have done this
/ thing; and not have done that thing.
And 50 on. ad intinitum.
| But they are all superficial and
superf1uous explanations of Magnus
JohnsonS victory. He goes to Wash
! ington, alongside Hendrix Shipstead,
as Minnesota's condemnation No. :.
/ within period of eight months, of
| the conditions that are depressing
! the farmer and the common man"
| of the northw est, as they regard 1t,
! beyond the endurance point. They
have rebelled They became embit-
tered against the economic tyranny
! which they think is weighing them
down in precisely the same spirit
/ that fired the farmer minute men of
! Lexington in 1875; and. like them,
have changed from merely embit-
| have seized the only legal weapon
at hand, the ballot. They will use
/ it-make no miStake-as long as 1t
serves their purpose
| Cost of His Election.
When Henrik Shipstead was in
! Washington last year shortly after
his election a newspaper man asked
| him if 1t had cost much money to
! put him over" Shipstead aston
! ished his questioner by saying that
it had cost "mtllions," and. in addi,
and tears" The effete east had
heard nothing from the Minnesota
| campaign suggesting either New
! berryism'' or loss of life or heart
! breaks, and Shipstead was urged to
| specify.
by the millions it cost to elect
! me senator" he explained, Il mean
/ the millions of dollars lost by the
farmers of Minnesota, whose mort
! cages have been foreclosed either
/ because they couldn't meet their in
! terest at the bank or their taxes at
J the county treasurer's office. Nobody
! knows just how many millions thus
, have been lost: they Were the mill
| lions the farmers of Minnesota had
! in mind when they voted me into the
| Senate.
BY the blood that was spilled to
| enable my election l mean the count
| less suicides that ensued in Mime
! sofa following the hopeless condi-
! tionS the farm folk have been wealth
| ering since 1921. BY the tears that
| were shed | mean the heartaches and
| the hcartbreaks that occurred when
! farmers We're evicted from the land
! they could no longer hold because
they could no longer make an acre
| of wheat or corn or alfalfa pay, at