Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1920-06-11

economy. whereas on honest comparison
actually shows that this congress has
increased the amounts carried in the
annual appropriation bills over those OF
the last Democratic Congresso-Bureau
Bulletin.
State Capitol Notes
Preus opened his gubernatorial cam
paign in Mankato on Thursday before
an audience of five hundred to one
voters HIS df vas ee
ment of this party and it certainly will
strengthen him with the conservative
element. He denounced socialism and
the Non-PGrtisan League with equal
the right was one to keep the Republic
can party from being listed as social
istic organization. From Mankato Mr..
Preus started south on Friday in an
and winding up in the evening at
airmont 1t is taken for granted that
from this date until June Fl he will be
| on the go addressing voters many times
and the program mapped out for him
will certainly tend to give him at least
respectable vote in the finals-al-
Fairmont. It is taken for granted that
with the situation in the state that
his campaign is ,Wellnigh hopeless.
The first Of the week the attorney
general issued a ruling to the effect
that under the primary election law
upon u Challenge De ' Of any voter. to require
the challenged person to make oath
that he was Republican and that in
the preceding election he voted for 9
majority of the candidates Of that
that who
falsely in this respect could be prose-
This is a good law and good morals.
and I am very glad indeed that our
THE light. It has been the painful duty
!, T.; the writer Of these letters in the
past to criticize them for ignoring-I
se e soy ceS aet BE- bnt Tine
and harmful, and the present attitude
of the voters, in thinking that they
are at liberty to go into any primary
and vote for such candidates as they
action Of the Republican party two
years ago and at other times when they
felt they needed Democratic votes or
other votes to land particular candi-
dates.
Now that this matter is Strengthened
out the Democrats will be very glad in
deed to cooperate with the Republicans
in heepng the ballet boxes of
voting. 1t might not be amiss in this
connection to call the attention of
Democrats throughout the state to this
express the hope that it viii have the
effect Of keeping Democrats at least
solidly in their own primaries.
The Republican national convention
will open in Chicago next Tuesday:
With the initial meeting still several
days awey, the field of candidates for the
presidential nomination is apparently
brh With
methods of the senatorial election in
Truman H. Newberry was elected as
seat in that a%gus 9o 6 b 'e1 notwith tbs
standing the fact that he is convicted
felon-apparently have been transfer
red to the national field and the var
Of the n ea States
eral Woods managers have spent \
campaign fund running from one to
two million dollars. Governor Lowden
has h%Ie d9spb over four the %
man Car Company's money. Johnson
has spent over two hundred thousand
dollars-and so on down the line. IN
at af for in eao
In the south lump sums. of to 10
thousand dollars have been handed out
to delegates from various states, and
I take it for granted that the surface
has only been scratched in this inyesti-
cation.
The Democrats have been in power
in the United States now for something
tribute to the honesty of this admin
stration that the moneyed interests,
profiteers and all those varied interests
which seek to use the government for
SvaCr tanio r0r1o
and exerting their influence to back
Republican candidates. The senatorial
Investigation started by the Republic
cans and engineered by them has left
Democratic aspirant for the presidency.
The largest campaign fund accumu-
lated by any Of them is chicken-feed
r. With the smalsst of the
should have decisive influence with
the thi mixing voter on election day in
! November: Financial interests do not
spend sI;tSa,, millions Of dollars in politics
kind with a. ded interest. 1t is possible.
even probable, that the senatorial dis
closures will have the effect Of ruling
this tSa out
these men. which have spent millions
OF dollars to secure their nomination,
VIII dictate the nomination Of the
most sinister influences in the United
States today are behind the Republican
!, organization. and in saying. this I do
not except the >so-called "reds," who,
AFTER all, are impotent to- work real
TO the interests OF the country except
injury to the intrests Of the country
except in limited areas.
!, - = ~: ~ =, -@z*:. DEMO. =: :,
X At a special election held in sobieski
!, village. last week, it was voted that
hereafter the village vote; separately
from the township of Swan River. Six
teen voted for separate voting and five
against. . = = : z