Bond Salesman

It has long been customary in Minnesota for the Anti-Saloon League to nominate all Republican and Farmer-Labor candidates for Congress. But in last week's Minnesota primaries, two small blots appeared upon this record. Dissatisfied with its servant of the past four terms, Representative Oscar E. Keller, the League advanced a new candidate in Keller's district (St. Paul). Keller ran on his record independently when out of the business district suddenly appeared a 28-year-old Wet bond salesman, one Melvin J. Maas, to confound them both. St. Paul voters gave Salesman Maas more votes than his Dry opponents could find between them. Said the League: "It makes no difference," meaning that Keller was no longer a satisfactory Dry anyway. But the League's foes were jubilant. In the Duluth district, another Wet had won --the second blot--and in Minneapolis a Modificationist had badly scared Dry Representative Godfrey G. Goodwin. Apparently, thirsts were growing on the native prairies of Andrew J. Volstead.