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Show much like the late and beloved gov- T -ernor as possible and the mode U. wmc rejected. The matter of reimbursing O'Connor will bo taken tip at anotuer meeting. ' SEJECT STATUE OF GOVJOHHSOB (Special to the Standard.) ST. PAUL, IhiC t Minneasota's people object to the statue of John A. Johnson, their much lamented governor, gov-ernor, garbed in the kind of frock coat that was fashionable in the days of Abraham Lincoln, but not now. This is one of the several reasons why the commission having in charge tho purchase of a memorial to John son rejected the models submitted by Andrew O'Conner, a sculptoe of Paris, "A f rirr- coal rr;chfo htlow tho knees in Minn.sola, if not in Pans," was the comment of. one of the members mem-bers of the commission as soon as the model was opened to view. There was a great deal In the lives of Abraham Lincoln and John A. Johnson that was similar which may, in a measure, account for the mistake mis-take made by Mr. O Connor. The sculptor, it was said at the meeting of the commission, had read and studied the life of Johnson, knew of his early life, which in some respects was like that of Lincoln's, and it Is believed drew a picture In his own mind of a man who hi his day and generation would wear a frock coat that did not reach above the knees, as did Lincoln's Lin-coln's Some of the other objections to O'Connor's model is that the eyes are sunken too deeply; that the nose lj too short; that Johnson assumed a more loosely knit and less aggressive aggres-sive pose when speaking; that tho symbolic figures in the background were not symbolic. The resolutions of the committee rejecting the models give the reason that the memorial "Is not suitable to tho site." After O'Connor had been engaged to do the. wok the site was changed and it is on this account that he will have another chance. C. W. Ames of St. Paul, who presided pre-sided at the meeting, mado a pathetic plea in hehalf of O'Connor. "The sculptor has a wife and four small children and. like many artists, is on the verge of his meager resources." said Mr. Ames "They live very hum My on the outskirts of Paris. I In sist that his pride be not huit by any rejection and that he be reimbursed for his weeks of labor." The commission, however, took the view that it is absolutely necessary to have a memorial that looks as |