Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1909 — The Legacy of John A. Johnson To His Home State. [ARTICLE]

The Legacy of John A. Johnson To His Home State.

The following eulogy on the life of John A. Johnson, governor of Minnesota, whose death, occurred recently, is by a republican newspaper, the Minneapolis Journal, and shows that political opponents are not necessarily blinded to the good in others. The Journal said of him: “His love of the common folk was sincere. He sympathized with their struggles. He,aided them by precept. But he did infinitely more for them by his example. He proved by his life that the battle with obscurity and poverty, while always hard, is never hopeless. He has left Minnesota in his life a legacy which she can never lose, more valuable than her grain covered acres, more precious than the riches of her iron hills.”