The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-10-07

the political rights of the people in
Minnesota. 1t means that you shall
have the right to initiate laws and
send them to St. Paul to be acted
upon. 1t means that when certain
classes of laws are brought up they
will not be laid aside and left until
the last days of the session, unbe-
known to the people of this state but
referred to the people before being
finally put into laws.
We are also for the conserva ton
of.the resources of the state and we
believe that we are right upon that
proposition and we believe that the
very fact that conservation is anissue
in this state is confession by a
party that has been in power for
more than a generation in Mime
sofa, that something must have gone
wrong in the past. They have had
three chances since 1897 but have
never done a thing with 1t.
Drawing line through the State
of Minnesota along the southern
boundary of Otter Tail county. you
have an empire of twenty-five coun-
ties as large as Ohio or New York
and in those counties there are the
greatest wheat fields in the world,
the greatest beds of iron ore the
world has ever known, the meeting
place of three continental watersheds,
a vast amount of unlimited resources,
but which need development and
assistance and above all, justice from
the State of Minnesota. How is
that justice to be obtained? 1t is to
be obtained by passing an act for
reapportionment.
This northern country needs as
sistance and help from the State of
Minnesota. 1t needs drainage, it
needs good roads, it needs schools
and it needs great many things,
but it does not need anything as a
matter of charity from the state,
only its rights under the constitution
of the state of Minnesota and the
people will take care of that for
themselves.
The State of Minnesota is a
great state. We all know it. 1t has
a most gracious climate, splendid
and adaptable soil and a capacity
for diversified crops which, a few
years ago, we did not dream of. We
have an immigration bureau asking
the people every day to come to
Minnesota and make their homes and
an Anticipated land system which
says that a man may come to Min.
nesota but he may have to wait 364
days before he can even bid on
piece of land in the state of Mime
sofa. This does not fit in with our
advertising to come here and be
welcome at all times.
"The issues we raise in this
campaign you may say are not very
warmly political. Possibly not,
but after the Legislature IS elected
and after the governor is elected,
there is not so very much politics
in their offices and I think if I
were elected to the office of gov
ernor, I would be very glad to
forget what little politics I know,
nd it would not take me long,
and to put in my time studying
the needs of the people of Mime
sofa, the educational needs and
the industrial needs, and the manu-
factoring prospects of the State of
Minnesota and, above all, the
agricultural plans and specifications
for the improvement of Minnesota
These things are more profitable
than grandstand plays to see which
party can get little the advan-
tage of the other in a political
contest. 1t IS said that Minnesota
is great Republican state, but it
is not the kind Of Republican
state it once was, when you all
went out and stood pat for the
Republican ticket from top to
bottom,''