New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-10-21
SPOKEN LIKE A MAN.

SPOKEN LIKE A MAN.
The Duluth Herald has the following
comment to make on the views of Ham
mond as set forth in his Red Wing
speech. Readers Of the Review were
furnished copies Of this speech in full and
now brief but comprehensive resume
Of it's vital points will furnish the voter
with tangible arguments to help him to
decide where to place his vote November
3rd.
''This speech is like the man fair,
square, open, manly. It is the speech of
man who has high conception of
citizenship and of the public servant
the speech of man who has convictions
and does not fear to state them the
speech of a man with a broad grasp of
state affairs and the will, the courage
and the capacity to apply his views to the
practical conduct of public business.
''Mr. Hammond evades no issue,
leaves no doubt where he stands on any
vital question that is before the state;
and this is characteristic of the man, as
Minnesota will come to know.
sEmphatically and without equivo-
cation he commends the work of the
efficiency and economy commission and
approves it's plans for the reorganization
of the states business system in the in
terests of lower taxation and greater re-
suits; including civil service and the
budget system, both essential factors of
the plan.
"Of peculiar interest to Northern Min
nesota, and in the long run of mighty con-
Germ to the whole state, is the fact that
Mr.. Hammond gives expression to a
constructive and aggressive policy of
state development, involving concrete
and practical plan of settling idle acres
with prosperous farmers and turning a
wilderness into a garden spot. The
millions of acres of agricultural lands
owned by the state should, he says, be
made available for settlement by recla-
nation, and reclamation should mean
not only drainage but lands covered with
stumps and brush should be cleared in
part, and inaccessible lands should be
made accessible by roads. He says,
To permit this fertile, productive
land to remain idle for years, when hum
dreds of industrious men and women
would make homes on it and convert the
dreary wastes into fields of waving grain,
is economically, if not morally, wrong
Approving the act Of the last legis-
lature putting legislative, judicial and
county officers on non-partisan basis,
Mr.. Hammond in the interests of better
government urges that state offices also
be placed there. It will clarity both
national and state issues. He points out
that -partisanship in legislative affairs
makes it impossible for members to evade
personal responsibility for wrong acts
by throwing the blame upon parties
party loyalty is no longer an excuse for
wrong vote. Manifestly, if it is right
that legislative, judicial and county
officers should be non-partisan, it is right
that state officers should be non-partisan,
too; for there is no rule or reason to
differentiate them, and national issues
have no more to do with the duties of
governor than they have with the duties
of county treasurer.
''Mr. Hammond points out that if
Mr.. Lees charges of brewery domi-
nation" in state affairs are true, and not
merely an attempt to paint in relief the
purity of the candidate against the
painted blackness of his associates, it is a