The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-16
TARIFF Will BE
THE 1916 issue
VIEW EXPRESSED BY PUBLICITY
MAN OF THE G. o. P. COM
MITTEE
l0OkS over STATE SITUATION
&c. REYNOLDS CAN SEE ONLY
DISASTER FOR PRESIDENT
WILSON

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viewpoint of ]. C. Reyonlds, the pub
iicity end of the national Republican
central committee, it will be decid-
eddy chilly fall for the Democratic
party a year hence. He can see only
disaster for President Wilson and his
followers. Mr.. Reynolds paid Min
nesota a visit recently and put in two
entire days going over the state situa-
ton with Gunnar Bjornson, chairman
of the state central committee; E. E..
Smith, former state chairman; former
Governor A. o. Eberhart and other
prominent Republican party lights. At
the conclusion he expressed himself
well pleased with the outlook in Min
nesota. AS MrReynolds dopes it out
President Wilson and his advisers can
not use the European war, or any
other war trouble close to the door
of the United States, as an excuse for
the retention of the Democratic party
as the dominating authority. The
next contest, he declares, will be
fought out entirely on tariff basis,
and he asserts that President Wilson
and his followers will suffer as re-
suit. The present European conflict,
he says, is responsible for tenn
porary period of prosperity, but with
its finish will come depression for the
United States because of it's lack of a
proper protective tariff wall. Presl-
dent Wilson, he told the leaders here,
might try to sidestep the tariff, but
he would not be permitted to do so.
In his tour of the country for infor-
nation Mr.. Reynolds said he had WIS.,
tied many states and he was confident
that another year would again see the
Republican party in control of the
United States. The president is IA
yorably regarded in Minnesota, he dis
covered, but he is certain that the
voters of the state never have been
with him in his tariff views and if the
tariff is made an issue next campaign
he will undoubtedly suffer here. That
Minnesota will go republican as far
as the national end is concerned is
certain, but that this Republican fea-
ture will carry the state end of the
ticket with it is another thing. Mr.
Reynolds made a favorable impression
while here and stirred the boys up
considerably. 1t is possible that get
together OF the clans will happen
shortly as a result. Chairman Bjorn-
Son, | am told, has such call under
consideration for some time this fall.
No one can accuse Governor Ham
mond of beng a publicity seeker or a
poser-in fact those interested in his
future are inclined at times to rail at
his modesty-but this fact has not
prevented the Eastern press and a
number of Western papers mentioning
him in a national way. Of course the
only mention possible is as running
mate for President Wilson, and in
this connection the press has been
quite kind. Commenting on the re-
cent visit of the Minnesota executive
the Panama-Pacific exposition, the
Confidential Banker, published at
Portland, Ore, said: minnesota is
to be most heartily congratulated up
on having such a magnificent chief
executive, man not only big enough
to be at the head of great state, put
to preside over the affairs of a nation.
Another paper, the Federation, pub
hshed at San Diego, CAL, mentioning
the visit of the governor, remarked:
every person who had the pleasure