Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1914-10-14
Slandering Senator Sundberg.

The people of this legislative dis
trict are too intelligent and fair
minded, we believe, to take any stock
in the campaign of personal abuse
and mud singing which is now di-
rected against Senator Sundberg with
the object of prejudicing the voters
against him and accomplishing his
defeat at the polls on November 3rd.
There is absolutely no truth what
ever in any hints or charges reflect
ing on the good name, character, hon
esty and business integrity of Sena-
tor Sundberg. He has lived in the
valley more than thirty years and
has earned a reputation for upright
ness and square dealing that all the
efforts of his slanderers can not de-
stroy. No worthy man ever went in
vain to Senator Sundberg for help, if
it was possible for him to give it.
The very newspapers which now are
heaping abuse on the Senator, had on
~ the kindest words to say of him up
till about four months ago. Surely,
Mr.. Sundberg's character can not
have changed so tremendously in the
space Of few months. But the
reason for the change of front of
these papers is very obvious. The
big corporate interests which Mr..
Sundberg has fought during his leg
islative career are getting in their
70 o1o
The fact that Mr.. Sundberg is a
farmer, and that he has been able by
hard work and good management to
make success at farming, to make
some money, and, perhaps, acquire
some shares of bank stock, is seized
upon by the opposition as reason
why he should be defeated. Now
while Mr. Sundberg is a farmer and
lives upon and tends to his own farm,
farming being his principal occupa-
ton, yet he has never tried to make
any capital Of that fact, as one paper
alleges. He is too fair-minded man
not to recognize that all useful occu-
pations in life are honorable, and the
fact that the principal business of his
opponent in banking, should not
count against him, other things being
equal. But the sneering way in which
Mr.. Sundberg is referred to as 'the
farmer" can have no other effect
than to unite the farmers upon him
and make them determined to send
one of their own number to the leg
is'ature Nor do we believe that Il
few farmers in. the legislature would
do any harm to that body. On the
other hand we believe a few more
good farmer in the legislature would
tend 20 improve the character Of the
legislation we have been getting.
The fact that Mr.. Sundberg during
his long residence in the valley has
been able to accumulate some proper
ty rankles in the bosom of his traduc-
ers. In their opinion, we suppose,
no farmer is entitled to make any
money and ought all to be as poor as
the proverbial church mouse. The
railroads, the express companies, the
elevator companies, the spectators
on boards of trade and chambers of
commerce, and brewers combines,
ought to make it all! But Mr.. Sund-
berg has had the brains and the abil-
ity to make some money, not as much
as his villifers say, but enough any
way so that he was able to bring suit
at his own expense against the big
express companies of the country and
secure a verdict in favor of the peo
pie. If he had been a poor man he
could not have done that. And how
the big corporate interests hate him
for just that kind of work! When
the farmers and business men of this
great agricultural district begin to
realize what is the real source of the
opposition to Senator Sundberg, we
believe they will rally to his support
and give him an almost unanimous
reelection. 1t is such men as Sund-
berg, with real backbone and courage
to stand UP for the right, that are
needed in our legislative halls.