Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-10-20
OBSERVATIONS
r (By the Cornfield Philosopher)
Shipstead at Home

Shipstead at Home
I slipped over to Glenwood the
other day to see how the people of
his home town felt towards DR.. Ship
stead and his candidacy for the gov
ernorship. I did not introduce myself
except on two or three occasions.
AS is generally known, the pictures
of candidate Preus have been very
generously distributed thruout the
state, mainly by hired promoters.
Shipstead's home city has by no means
been neglected in this matter and the
profile of the Steel Trusts Candidate
for Governor may be seen everywhere
On entering business house I cas-
ually asked why the picture of the
local candidate, DR.. Shipstead, was
not displayed. Was he Bolshevik,
an I. w. w. or disreputable or other
wise disqualified for the Office. In
every single case but one, bank, this
insinuation was resented, sometimes
with great emphasis. Once in a while
the business man would say, 81 have
| no use for the Townley crowd, but for
DR.. Shipstead personally l have the
highest regard and intend to give him
my support.
The presence of the pictures were
generally explained by the statement
that anybody could leave a card or
picture in there representing any par
ty and that no one had brot Ship
stead's pictures around, which proved
to be the case. There are probably
! not half dozen business places in
Glenwood where the likeness on pa
per of the next Governor (Shipstead)
of Minnesota could not be displayed.
| Among DR.. Shipstead's most active
I hackers is Mr.. G. o. Ettesvold, pro-
! prietor" of the largest lumber yard in
| Pope County, and there are numerous
others.
| But it is in the ranks of labor in
Glenwood where Shipstead enthusi-
asm fairly bubbles over and it is not
confined to any class of workingmen
either
| However, the railroad boys, part
icularly the engineers, this being
division station, are taking the lead.
Mr.. J. W. Trepp and Mrs. A. H. HUM
| NC dl . VOL dCLlNS LII 0uIpoISdu, duu
| the whole ticket for that matter, put
ting in all of their spare time in lin
ing up the railroad boys and others
on the right side. They even go out
in the country and hold meetings a.
mong farmers and are interesting
both town and country women in the
movement.
The banker who spoke sneeringly
is probably opposed to a law COMPEL
ing bankers to put up a fund to guar
antee all bank deposits which Ship
stead favors.
The FARMERS and workers have re-
Gently carried out a successful move
to establish their own local paper.
They have sold a large amount of
stock and employed Mr. Edward E.
Barsness to manage their new paper,
The Tribune, which starts out with a
paid up list of nearly a thousand sub
scribers. Mr.. Barsness is a Pope
County boy who was one of the most
successful League organizers and is
!, we'll known in Renville and Meeke1
| Counties. That he will make sue
cess of the Tribune with the backing
that he has you may rest assured. In
a short time he will have a complete
outfit including fine jobbing plant
While I was there a joint debate
two men and two women on a side
was arranged for, but the Republicans
for some reason, backed out, leavins
the contest to the Independents ant
the Democrats.
The woman speaker for the Pro
gressives was the talented wife of DR.
Shipstead who acquitted herself with
great credit winning round after round
of applause from the large audience
Minnesota people will have no reason
to blush for the future mistress o.
the Governors mansion
The universal opinion of the PEG
pie l talked with was that DR.. Ship
stead is a clean, honest, honorable
man, fully qualified for the great of
flee that this free people of Mime
sofa, on the farms, in the mines, ant
the factories and indeed in every wall
of life are about to bestow upon him