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...Before the last Congressional election in November, 1922, there were not more than 50 pro-labor and forward-looking Congressmen. Labor and Progressive Republicans and Democrats threw themselves into the primary and election campaigns and elected 170 members of the Nation's House of Representatives. These are distributed among the various parties as follows: Democrats, 105; Republicans, 63; Farmer-Labor, 1; Independent, 1; total, 170 - an increase of 120 Congressmen in one election. The reëlection of these 170 and the election of 80 more Congressmen representing the people will bring the people a safe working majority...
...Progressives are on the fourth floor of the Morrison Hotel. For some reason, radicals always hold their gatherings at this hotel. The Farmer-Labor party got its start in this hotel...
...carry . . . pay-as-you-go campaign." It was intimated that some $100,000 was already on hand. If so, this is almost twice as much as the Repub- licans had on hand a month ago. Governor J. A. O. Preus, Republican, of Minnesota, who has struggled with the Farmer-Labor Party at home, gave his opinion of the coming Campaign: "La Follette is going to surprise the natives this Fall by the large popular vote he will win all over the Country, and by the very small electoral vote that will result...
...turn Senator LaFollette's third ticket plan from a Farmer-Labor combination to a pure Labor movement. The kind of progressivism that the farmers want is that which brings progress in the form of better prices for their grain and livestock. Just at present, it appears as if they would get it without Mr. LaFollette's intervention...
...Farmer-Labor: captured at St. Paul by Communists; nominated Duncan McDonald and William Bouck. The National Committee withdrew their names last week and endorsed the Workers' Party candidates...