Word: preus
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...late Knute Nelson, Viking of the Senate, is to have a remarkable successor, Magnus the Great. Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor candidate, defeated Governor Preus, the regular Republican candidate, for Minnesota's vacant seat in the Senate. The radical farmer won by a substantial majority. The Democratic candidate, Mr. Carley, who admittedly had no chance, came in third because there was no one else in the race...
...Governor Preus, the one hope of the Republicans to keep some sort of a working majority in the Senate, was obliged by the rigors of the campaign to attack the Fordney-McCumber tariff and to keep silence about the Administration. Nevertheless, he was defeated by the discontent of the Minnesota farmers and workingmen of the Iron Range district, and by the vigorous campaigning of a capable politician...
...roar: "I tell you, Magnus Johnson knows what is the matter. I got a pretty good farm and I got a good-sized mortgage on it and I got a wife and children and I got 24 cows, and my wife and children milk those cows, too. . . . Jake [Governor Preus] is a lawyer, and I'm glad he is running against me. I tell you, friends, Magnus is a lucky cuss...
...coming election in Minnesota; to show further that the "progressive itch" is no respecter of denominations, one of the Senators is a Democrat, the other a Republican. On July 18, Minnesota will elect a successor to the late Senator Knute Nelson. The candidates are Governor J. A. O. Preus (Republican), State Senator J. T. Carley (Democrat), Magnus Johnson (Farmer-Labor). Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana (Democrat) announced that he would campaign for Johnson. He added to his announcement that he was not abandoning the Democratic Party but was convinced that the Democratic candidate had no chance (which is generally...
...conference, held in Chicago, was attended by some 800 delegates and heard speeches from a number of prominent men-Samuel Gompers, Senator Capper of Kansas, Senator Copeland of New York, Governor Preus of Minnesota, Julius H. Barnes, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. There was little unanimity in their counsels, however: Samuel Gompers called for better organization among the farmers; Governor Preus advocated organized study of their problems; Senator Capper declared that the farmers were ruined by manipulators of wheat prices, saying "the Chicago Board of Trade has become the world's greatest gambling place" (John...