New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-08-05
Pipestone Candidate Fires Opening
Gun of Congressional Cam
paign to Very Small
Audience.
A Mere Corporai's Guard Gathers
at Opera House to Hear His
Exposition of the Issues.
bitiousSpeaker Talked Though
as Earnestly as If Haranguing
a Thousand.

ant for the republican nomination for
congress in the triangular fight with
James T. McCleary and Gilbert
Guttersen, blew into town Wednesday,
for the purpose of making a political
speech, or rather an exposition of the
reasons by which he expects to con-
vince the voters that ne is the logical
successor to the seat now filled by
Hon. Winfield Scott Hammond. But
the weather was so frightfully hot that
it seemed like crime to ask anyone
to come out to hear him. Therefore
Mr.. Ewert went onto Sleepy Eye and
Springfield, returning to New Ulm
Saturday evening.
At Sleepy Eye he says he spoke to
$50 voters and at Springfield TO 225,
but at New Ulm his audience dwin-
died to less than thirty.
Mr.. Ewert was nothing daunted,
however, by the evident lack of in
terest.
Taking off hisgeoat he sailed into
his subject the same as il his audience
had been made up of thousand
enthusiastic listeners instead of thirty.
Moreover, he is not SO slow as a
speaker.
He looks well, he talks well and his
spoken sentiments strike the nearer
as being frank and honest.
He said he was after the nomination
for congress because ne wanted the
honor and also because he had been
urged to enter the race by friends who
wanted someone who was not con-
nected with the McCleary -Guttersen
fight of two years ago.
His platform of principles, he said,
had been published months ago and
all OF it's planks, with one exception,
had been incorporated in the national
and state platforms adopted at
Chicago and ST. Paul.
- He discussed the tariff at some
length and declared that in his opini-
on it should be revised downward and
not upward by standpatters like Nc
Cleary.
He announced himself in favor of a
non-p partisan tariff commission.
Three corporations, he contended,
controlled all of the bituminous coal
trade of the country and he was firm
in his faith that the tariff on this
much-used article Of everyday con-
sumption should be Immediately re-
moved.
He was equally strong in his adyo-
cacy of the removal of the tariff from
) lumber, wood pulp and iron.
He was opposed to railway rates
based on unjust capitalization and
called upon his hearers to demand a
physical valuation of the great trans.
portation lines along the lines adyo.
Gated by Senator LaFollette.
Such doctrine, he admitted, might
sound democratic to some, but he
wanted all such to understand that il
was nothing more nor less than the
doctrine of the present popular presi
dent of the United States.
Referring to his opponents he
charged that Guttersen had failed tc
discuss the issues uppermost IN the
peoples mind, and as for McCleary he
thought there was as little likelihood
of his changing his policy to suit the
hopes and aspirations OF his consti-
tuents as there was of the leopard
changing his spots.
In conclusion he said that the people
had a right to expect that men who
wanted to run for congress should
come out openly for what the people
want, and if elected to stand for those
things without fear or favor.
The Misses Roth of Springfield were
guests last week of Miss Lou Baasen.
i Jos. Holm has gone to Underwood.
North Dakota, in search of employ.
ment.
The New Ulm Stone Co. contracted
last week to furnish a large amount
of crushed granite for macadamizing
purp oses in Rochester.
w. P. Hoy has resi- gned his position
as grain buyer for the Sleepy Eye
Milling Co. at Evan. VIM. McPhet
of Sleepy Eye succeeds him.
Albert Forster of Annaheim, Sas-
katchewan, and Mrs. E. w. Gag o:
Wahpeton, North Dakota. were called
here last last week by the serious III
ness Of their mother, Mrs. Car
Forster.