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Malone, N. Y. Benson's Merits...
Though I am not the type of reader who would cancel his subscription to TIME over a difference of opinion, it is necessary to take exception to your remarks on Senator Elmer A. Benson who has been elected to the governorship of Minnestoa by a 5-to-3 majority | TIME...
...quite unjust to infer that Mr. Benson was elected on any other consideration than his own merits, combined with the merits of the progressive Farmer-Labor movement in which he has become a leader in his own right. His total vote in the election, as tabulated thus far, exceeds the combined votes of Farmer-Labor and Democratic nominees to offices which were not affected by the withdrawal of Democratic candidates for governor and U. S. senator...
...said that Mr. Benson owed his election to the fact that Minnesota's late Governor Floyd B. Olson had adopted him as a successor. Elmer Benson's record during his few months in the senate proves that he has a mind of his own, as witness his American youth act, his investigation of the black legion, his proposal of a liberalizing amendment to the constitution, and his stoppage of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad grab. These accomplishments would do credit to any man's six years in the senate, to say nothing of six months. Then...
Forty-one years old, Elmer Benson looks like a scant 30. Four years out of a country bank, he is totally devoid of egotism, pomposity, or malice. These qualities, with his transparent honesty and his spotlessly clean personal record, did as much as any other factors to win his election. You will hear a lot more of Elmer Benson in the next few years. GERALD R. ASFALG...