. Life of John Albert Johnson : three times governor of Minnesota . eelings, he spoke with ardor andconviction, and he made up his mind that he wouldwin. He surprised his home people by gravely as-suring them that he would be elected saw he meant it, but they thought his head wasturned. What! John Johnson do what has been donebut once in forty-four years — win the governor-ship of Minnesota for the Democratic Party! Im-possible ! But Johnson knew. He believed himself coolenough, for all the heat of the fray, to see that hi?audiences in size and enthusiasm were without par-allel i
. Life of John Albert Johnson : three times governor of Minnesota . eelings, he spoke with ardor andconviction, and he made up his mind that he wouldwin. He surprised his home people by gravely as-suring them that he would be elected saw he meant it, but they thought his head wasturned. What! John Johnson do what has been donebut once in forty-four years — win the governor-ship of Minnesota for the Democratic Party! Im-possible ! But Johnson knew. He believed himself coolenough, for all the heat of the fray, to see that hi?audiences in size and enthusiasm were without par-allel in the history of the party in the state. Thecalculating politicians began to notice it, too. Lead-ers who had been apathetic began to show interestand come to headquarters. Campaign funds beganto come in, and Mr. Day, who had mortgaged every-thing he had to start the fight, began to see somehope of reimbursement. Then the gods of chance began to light on John-sons side. Many of the traveling men of the statehad made Johnsons acquaintance in his old clerking 126. FIRST GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN days, and had kept in touch with him after he be-came editor. The prospect of elevating the humblevillage boy of a few years back to the governorshipappealed to them. They became missionaries forJohnson to the whole traveling fraternity of thestate; and then with their converts, ten thousandstrong, they moved upon every opposition outpostin the state. The traveling men worked for theirhouses for pay and for Johnson for love, and theunpaid service was better than the paid. The Re-publican candidate was so unfortunate as to be re-ported as saying something that reflected on thetraveling men as a class. That made them prac-tically solid for Johnson. Every train became amoving Johnson meeting, every hotel a Johnsonheadquarters, every store a Johnson workingground. Not content with that, the gods of chance in-spired someone to piit out in the form of affidavitsthe wretched story of Johnsons fat
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