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little good. They owed it to themselves to consume more of their own 

 products. 75 



The worries of the administration over the congressional elections in 

 the fall of 1930 were fully justified by the results. It went down to defeat 

 in the western Middle West as well as in other parts of the country. In 

 Nebraska the insurgent George W. Norris was re-elected to the United 

 States Senate by a substantial margin, and Charles W. Bryan, the Demo- 

 crat, defeated the incumbent Republican, A. J. Weaver, for the governor- 

 ship by a narrow margin. In Minnesota Senator Thomas D. Schall, a 

 Republican, scored a close victory over Einar Hoidale, his Democratic 

 rival; but far more significant was the gubernatorial victory of Floyd B. 

 Olson, the Farmer-Laborite. Ten Republicans and one Farmer-Laborite 

 were sent to Congress from Minnesota. In North Dakota the conservatives 

 found themselves in complete control of the state for the first time since 

 1919; George F. Schafer was re-elected governor along with three Repub- 

 lican congressmen. In Iowa L. J. Dickinson, a Republican, defeated D. F. 

 Steck, a Democrat, for the United States Senate, and Dan W. Turner, 

 another Republican, was elected governor. The Republicans sent ten of 

 their numbers to Congress and the Democrats one. In Missouri twelve 

 Democrats and four Republicans won congressional victories, to give the 

 Democrats a net gain of six seats. The lower house of the state legislature 

 went Democratic, but the upper house remained Republican. In Kansas 

 Arthur Capper, long active in agrarian circles, was returned to the Senate 

 with an ample majority; while Harry Woodring, a Democrat, defeated 

 Frank Haucke, a Republican, for the governorship in a close race. Seven 

 Republicans and one Democrat were elected to Congress, while in the 

 state legislature the Republican majorities were whittled down. In Wis- 

 consin Philip F. La Follette, the younger of the brothers, was elected to 

 his first term as governor on the Republican ticket. This was a repudiation 

 of the Hoover Republicans in the state. 76 



Across the nation the rebuke to the Republicans was apparent. The 

 Democrats elected seventeen governors as opposed to twelve elected by the 

 Republicans, and a Farmer-Labor candidate and an independent Repub- 



75. Pioneer Press, January 13, 1930. 



76. The New International Year Boo\, 1930, pp. 526, 492, 572-73, 383, 495, 411, 

 810. 



