The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-13
GOVERNOR PREUS'S LONE HAND

Singular and disquieting to
friends Of the Administration,
humorous to worshippers of the
Comic Spirit, is the political stu
alton in Minnesota. She is to elect
q United States Senator on July
IL There els a Democratic candi
cate who has no chance. Some
Democrats proclaim their support
OF Governor Preus. the Republican
candidate. They want to save the
remnants Of the Democratic Party
Ill the State from the Farmer-La-
Dor confederation. Some >Repub-
Leans are forming progressive"
associations to aid Magnus Johnson,
the Farmer-LabOr candidate, who
plOusly calls himself the rubber
stamp of Mr.. La Toilette, a nom
inal Republican, too i'll to help
Magnus with his voice, but repre-
scented In ,Gopherdom by his son
and number of La Follettian
congressman.
OF course, Senator La Toilette
end his assoc :ates can't say any
thing mean Cn1ugh about Mr.. Hard
ing and his Administration. Even
Governor Preus dosn't deem it safe
50 say good word for the Pres
fGent who carried Minnesota by
$4,000 in 1920. Last year the Gov
crnor cav Senator Kellogg 20 down
before the radical storm and the
wrath of the farmers. This year
the farmers are still Wrathful, and
they are not deluded by the Emerg-
cncy or the McCunbert Fordnev
tariff. Mr.. Harding told che Kan
sas farmers the other day that the
20 cents a bushel duty on wheat i'm
ports kept the American market for
the AmericHn farmerss Yet Secre-
tary Work confessed in Spokane in
il public speech, that the 2res;den-
tial party had heard very bitter
in Idaho from farmers
unable to sell the products of the
soil at a profit"
The protective magic hasn't work !
ed. Wheat has gone down. The
price of everything the farmer has
to buy has been put up by the
blessed tariff. No wonder he is
sore. The Northwest is no friend
of orthodox high protection. Cover
nor Preus has been studying the
tariff for nearly fifteen years. He
satisfied himself that a low tariff is
best for the Northwestern people.
He was against the McCumber-
Fordney Tariff bill because he did
not believe lit would help the
farmer or any consumer" He adj
mits that he is hereto in regard
20 protection. Old Knute Nelson,
whose secretary he used to be, was
likewise no protection fanatic.
Senator Kellogg had to apologize
for the tariff last Fall.
View the curious Minnesota Re-
publican landscape DER. The Old
Guard has been warned to keep
away. If Senator Moses has been
allowed to stay, it is because he
knows enough to shut up: and will
weep silently and not boohoo aloud
over Preus's apostasy. The farm
DiOc, with it's venerated Capper and
Gooding. has been pounded in the
head by the ruthless Preus. Min
nesota is palisaded off from the
rest of the Republican Party
Observe what is sure to happen
1ext Tuesday. If Magnus Johnson
s elected, the Administration ami
he sacred tariff. both of which he
las jabbed virulently, will have
:een beaten in Minnesota. If Gov
,rnor Preus is elected, they will S
'lso be beaten, for as matter of {
afety he has either kept them out
# the campaign altogether or, as I
n the case of the tariff. he has de- I
lied and damned a cardinal per-
ormance upon which Mr.. Harding I
rides himself and congratulates
lis party.-New York Times. '