New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-11-26

slas, N1SIHoQS OF OrganlzatlOn,
Campaign Methods Selection Of
Candidates. " Carrying on the Govern
im.ent." Their Achievements When in
Office and What Of the Future for
Labor Parties" The illustrations will
be taken from any places where organiza-
tons Of labor have entered the field Of
politics Editor.
After political party has agreed
upon the measures for which it will
make battle at the ballot box, and has
selected its candidates to enact and to
administer its program, there comes
next in order the campaign which is
TO secure the election Of its candidates
and the carrying out Of its proposals.
. In order to accomplish this result,
"a majority Of all the voters in any
given district, or in a state, or in the
nation at large, must be secured. They
must be convinced, not only Of the
merits Of the measures proposed, but.
OF this very great and immediate inn
portance and that they can be adopted.
This. conviction must be so sincere.
and SO controlling as to bring to- the
ballot box, not only a bare majority,
but a majority so large that irregu-.
larities, mistakes in counting, or even
the vicious Justification Of election re-
turns can not rob the party Of the
fruits Of its victory,
THE USUAL. WAY.
To achieve success ordinarily polit-
ical parties resort to scandalous per-
sonalities, to the misstatement Of the
real issues, to an effort to confuse the
public mind to appeal to prejudice, to
arouse suspicion, to take advantage Of
race jealousies, to open up social
wounds long healed and which ought
to be forgotten Such methods have
proven successful in the warfare be-
tween political parties where neither
party to the controversy had in view
| a serious and important public pur-
pose Of any sort. Such campaign tao
tics may be Hexcusable for political. or
carnations created for the purpose Of
serving great private interests by. di-
verting attention from needed reforms
and by persuading the public that, as.
bad as things are, they might be
worse.
In this way the public mind, acting
on the desire not to turn over the pub
lie powers to those who may betray
the public good, is led to decide to
leave the public powers in the possess
Sion Of those who already have been
and are doing, and will contin 1e to do,
the greatest public wrongs. For fear
of future evil, they are led to vote,
for both a present and future known
and certain wrong.
WHY. A LABOR PARTY?
The only excuse for the existence of
a Labor party is in order to have GER
tain measures adopted which will very
greatly improve the conditions under
which men toll, the rewards which
they receive for their labor, or for the.
products of their labor, and in the end
make an end Of all industrial servi-
tude. These measures must be Of such
a nature as will increase the incomes
of useful people and at the same time
lower the costs Of living until the
prices which the workers receive for
their labor, or for their products, will
be sufficient to buy back out Of the
market all the wealth created By
them.
An effective campaign for the
Labor. party must make these meas
tres clear, must make the multitude
understand their Importance, must
make the vast majority Of voters com
,prehend that these things really can
he accomplished and that political
party composed Of the Useful people,
and set to dc; these things, can actual
~ do them. With such program and
such campaign the old style Of poll
tics has little to do. The old style
,campaigner can neither understand,
nor is he qualified to have any effec-
tive part in, such program.
THE WAY 10 WIN.
If the people are to be reached ef-
fectively for such purpose, the only
ways Of reaching them are, first,
through house toulouse canvas:
second, through the distribution of
third, through the public
press, and, fourth, by public meetings.
All Of these things have been eff
fectively carried out in the various
Labor party campaigns which have
been successfully undertaken. The
British Labor party fills all Of the
homes and streets and billboards with
printed matter containing short, point
ed, stirring paragraphs, accompanied
by cartoons, and does this over and