The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1920-08-27
Parley P Christensen Addresses Large
Audiences at Aldrich Park Tuesday
Afternoon and Again in the Evening

This has been a great week for
boosters for the third party. This
is the first time that presidential
candidate has opened his campaign
in South Dakota 1t seemed quite
essential that the Standard force
should be represented at one of the
meetings at which the third party
candidate is the chief figure. We
have had our cance to become ac-
quainted with our candidate. and
we ayailed ourselves of this oppor-
tunity
Aberdeen was the honored city
Tuesday MIR. Christensen made
four speeches in that city. In the
forenoon he addressed the meeting
held in the labor temple by Nonpar-
tisan league farmers from all over
the state. At 2:30 o'clock he de-
iivered an address at Aldrige park.
and spoke again at the same place
that evening. In the even
ing he was rendered banquet a,
the Raddison hotel at which about
three hundred farmers and laborins
,,,av, u.oro vr.aaop4
Mr.. Christensen is large man,
both in stature and ability. He
weighs less than some have given
him credit for-just 235. He has a
big personality, and at once you feel
the pressure of the Intellectual mag
nitude of which Mr. Christensen is
possessed. But everyone is at ease
with him, for he is the kind of man
who Graves the cornpanonship OF
the common man
The speech in the evening at AL
drich park follows, in part:
The greatest obstacle to the new
party movement in the world today
is the papers we read. That here
tofore people have thought it good
form to go down the street with
Saturday Evening Post, Literary Di-
gest. or Country Gentleman under
their arm; these have been great
moulders Of public opinion: that in
the past these have been great pa
rers but that Is no longer the case.
kS<Hp tho
ener such as this little campaign
will be. these papers will be SO much
poison. Farmers and laborers must
name of all that Is just and decent
Do not buy the other. Why should
all right to be kind to them; but
public opinion is one of the things
upon which these plutocrats fatten.
Build up the farmers and laborers'
press. II we could get the message
people. We would win this year.
There is no bigger bunch OF econom-
ic slaves in the world than the peo-
pie of the United States-we like
it. l have been offered all kinds OF
SOOu tllll6S w WOIh lOl COIHOt2
tions. They grasp our good men
soon as man shows aptitude for
correcting some of the economic
corporations. However, the people
of south Dakota are all leaders
(that fact was settled at the Chica-
go convention)
''The brightest spot in the con
mol
had platform that rung true. !
have been member of working
mems organizations for years. We
have always been afraid that the
formers were not progressive, but
they run the labor men out with
their radicalism. About one third
are wage earners. the other third
farmers; "a per cent of all voters
What's going to happen? The li:-
tie business men arc in favor of the
movement Of the new party; he Is
a profiteer, an exploiter only of ne
cessity. not OF choice. We are go
ing to build coo oeratively just al
fast as We can. Join hands in any
matter you can help to put over any
kind of cooperative. l want more
iilhu Iuat. WaHt Sue CCOpoTdtIOL
but want the banker to help pas
expenses to build It; want to build
out OF the public fund; get together
comparatively: cut out the fellow
who Is skinning you Above al
things put over your own paper.
81 must take the story OF Toronto
with me. wish someone wouli
throw an egg at me: II would bs
ssorth a million votes, for it woult