Rabbit Pie

Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, of the great voice, was recently the object of the following narrative in the Hearst press:

"It is hard to be a radical even when you want to be one. Ask Magnus Johnson. He found himself at a big dinner in Washington the other night. Everybody was there. Near him sat Mr. Hoover, who isn't exactly a 'dirt farmer' radical, but spent a good deal of the evening with his arm around Magnus Johnson's shoulder. When Hoover removed that arm, it was to give President Coolidge a chance to put his arm there instead. . . . President Coolidge made a nice speech and talked more about Magnus Johnson than anything or anyone else. He even told a story that apparently has only just reached Massachusetts, but is old in Alaska and the Philippines, about the rabbit pie. The man admitted that he put some horse meat in the rabbit pie, and said it was 'fifty-fifty'--one rabbit to one horse. The President assured Magnus Johnson that he would have a fifty-fifty chance at Washington, 'even if I have to be the rabbit and you the horse.' "

A few days later Senator Johnson made a speech to a post of the American Legion and referred to the action of Senator Bruce (Democrat) who voted with the Republicans to prevent the election of a Democrat as Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee (see page 3) : "This bird from Maryland flopped when all that was needed to elect Smith was his vote. . . . The promise of the average politician who uses fine words in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the people is like a rabbit sausage. Fifty-fifty-- one horse and one rabbit. The people get the rabbit and the great corporations get the horse."