The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-03-26
THE CONTEST
Ellsworth Again Candidate
For StateHead
URGES SEVERAL ISSUES
Tonnage Tax, Townley, Tenn
perance and Taxation Are
To Be Discussed
From TUESDAYS pailY.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Representative Franklin F. ELS =
worth is again a candidate for gov
ernor. He proposes 10 make a CAIN
paign for the republican nomination.
He will tour the state and have
something TO say in regard TO Ton
mage tax, Townley, Temperance and
Taxation. In statement announcing
his re- entire into the gubernatorial
contest, Mr.. Ellsworth says:
IL shall file for the republican nom
inatiOn for governor
None of the receptive or avowed
| candidates has made a public state
ment or a reply 10 my inquiries stat
ing his position on tonnage tax, TEN.
perance, guaranty of bank deposits,
| workmen's compensation and other
important questions on which / have
and shall base my own candidacy. !
| must conclude that they seek to evade
them. -. .-....
q entered the contest last April
| because believed in certain funda-
| mental principles and feel that GER
tain issues should be fought out in
, Minnesota in the coming election. !
was willing TO accept support tender
ed me because OF my advocacy of
such principles. / shall not now
stand by while these principles are
| sacrificed upon the alter OF political
| treachery.
Calls For Tonnage Tax.
First: Minnesota must have a
tonnage tax on iron ore. i pledge
hot Ill
/ will exert every executive power
and exhaust every personal and polit-
ical resource to procure the enact
ment of such tax law. l will if nee
essary enforce such passage by extra
session or sessions to the full author
| ity granted by the constitution.
; will if necessary and eXpedient carry
! the fight to procure tonnage tax by
. direct personal appeal through mass
meetings or otherwise into the legis-
lative district of any senator or rep
resentatiye in the legislature who is
perverse and misrepresents the in
| terests of his district and the state.
Second: / shall oppose repeal OF
| the eighteenth amendment to the
constitution of the United States or
i Vi 4LuC foiolCad Suloi OClASht at.
oppose the increase of alcoholic soon
|. tent OF beer and wine or either. The
fight against temperance has been
re opened. The issue must be met.
| favor meeting it fairly and square
ly and repelling this first attack on
existing law. .H &.
/ ..... Other Laws Sought.
Third: Eight hour day and min
iInum wage laws should be passed
such as now recomE ended by the
State Federation of Labor and the
right of collective bargaining should
be recognized.
Fourth | believe in the princi-
pie of public ownership Of public util-
tiles such as street railway, water
power, hydro electric, electric, gas
and steam plants by cities under
home rule provisions and the de-
velopment of waterpower by the
state.
Fifth: I favor the following laws
on condition that a tonnage tax is
passed and that the administrative
expenses of such laws will not in
crease, the individual tax burden OF
the citizens of the state, viz, state
insurance of workmen's compensation,
improved grain grading and market
ing facilities, laws and loading OF
state monies on. agricultural lands.
Bank Deposit Guaranty.
sixth. A law should be passed
providing for the guaranty by the
state of deposits in sfate banks, and
this Independent of the passage OF
any other law. So. .H =
The people of Minnesota demand
new and advanced legislation but
they demand also that taxes shall be
reduced, not increased. l favor ad-
vanced legislation demanded by the
farmers and workers and citizens or
our state and shall direct my efforts
toward procuring tonnage tax that
proper and sufficient revenue may be
afforded to pay the administrative
expenses OF the same and the states
taxes reduced in addition on many
millions of dollars.
Says He Is Unshackied.
81 am not bound to, any organlZa-
ton or the leaders thereof ami am
under no obligation to any corporate
interests. If elected governor Of
Minnesota shall be absolutely free
agent and answerable only to the will
of the people of the state.
" 81 shall commence my campaign at
once. | shall go directly to the people
on the farms and in the workshop.
shall endeavor to make it crusade
for principle. (TonnaSe, Townley,
Temperance and Taxation will turn
ish the theme Franklin F, Els
worth"