Morris tribune., 1914-09-18
Pledges Business Mems Admin
!, iStratiOn Of Efficiency With
/ out Extravaganza.
WOULD URGE COUNTY OPTION
Candidate Would Danish Brewery Con
troll and Declares for a Broad POL
icy of State Development.

this city tonight More than 2,OOO
enthusiastic followers of the candi-
date packed the local auditorium to
the last seat and hundreds remained
standing that they might hear Mr.. Lee
discuss the issues of the campaign
and define the principles upon which
he stood.
The address was along constructive
lines and every sentence a part of a
story that told of a better governed,
a more opulent and progressive Min
nesota. Mr. Lee came out squarely
and unequivocally for the passage of
a county option bill and the end of
brewery control in the state. In
promising a business administration
the candidate endorsed the work of
the efficiency commission, declaring
that parsimony was undesirable and
that extravaganza must end. Mr.. Lee
pledged himself to work for lower
tax rate, home rule Of public utilities,
conservation of the states natural re-
sources, good roads, and small town
development. He praised the states
school system, declared for free and
open markets and the rigid enforce
1nent of the states laws. Mr.. Lee said:
4 In this, my opening speech in this
campaign, can say little that is new.
The issues are clear and definite, and
my position upon them is we'll known
The issues enunciated by me nearly
three years ago are the issues today,
and will be the issues upon which the
result of this campaign must be de-
termined.
There are numerous matters of i'm
portance which need attention, but
which of themselves will make but
small advance unless settled in con-
junction with other and greater prob
1ems. Three momentous questions
are demanding solution. They are:
% The reorganization of the adj
administrative departments of the state
government along modern business
lines so as to secure efficiency with
out extravaganza.
(2) Securing to the people their
inherent right to determine the laws
.Mnder which they prefer to live, and
them to do so.
!. (3) Protecting the people and the
1awmaking body from the demoraliz-
ing effect of the brewery in politics, -
TO the end that men and measures
may be considered upon their merits.
Endorses Efficiency Commission.
My declaration in 1912 that Min
nesota had a complicated and anti.
quated governmental organization and
that there was imperative need of a
complete overhauling and reorgan,
= ization of the administrative ma.
chinery of the state government, at
first discredited, was developed to a
point where public opinion demanded
some action; and as a result a com
mission was created which has taken
UP the whole question of reorganiza
ton.
The high personnel of this commits
Pion commands respect for it's work
They have been and are working dill
gently on the problem and will pre-
pare bills providing for a complete re
organization of the administrative de
garments of our state government
which bills will be among the mos
important measures to come before
the next legislature. In its prelimi
mary report the commission recon
amends consolidation and unifcatio1
of the now unrelated boards and ad
1pinistrative offices under responsible
departments that will be related t.
each other and can efficiently AM
economically carry on the business
affairs of our state. The budget sys
Item and an efficient service system
are also included All this is il
y / accord with what l have advocate,
for years, and l shall urge it's ador
ton by the legislature.
Business Administration Needed.
What the condition of Minnesot;
needs and the people of the state de
t1nand, is. reforms without frills am
t$overnment without red tape-iust
plain business organization such a
you will find in any successful privat
undertaking | will ask no man t
work harder nor longer hours than
do myself, but l will guarantee Their
will be no one on the payroll in ar
department | can control whose sery
ices are not needed or who is NO
earning his salary
One of the sources that has cor
Gributed to the pernicious system {
legislative trading and log rolling
the multitude of lobbyists who swarr
about the state capitol during ever
session of the legislature. 1t will b
my purpose to put forth every effol
20 assist the, legislature of riddin
! Itself of this incumbrance.
ParsImony Undesirable.
Economy must come chiefly b
ys-vGarefuI consideration of appropriate
sreQuests, and shall urge the legi
ature that the general apprOpriatic