New Ulm review., 1920-10-20
FARMER-LABOR
SCORE VICTORY
ROUSING POLITICAL MEETING
WAS HELD AT ST. PETER
MONDAY EVENING.
SPEAKERS TALK
TO ABOUT 5000 PEOPLE.
FLAY PLUNDERBUND

The steel trust and it's allies of re-
action met crushing defeat at st.
Peter, Monday evening, when it's
gubernatorial candidate ,''Jake'' Preus,
and his ''retinue" was put to rout by
DR.. Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-Labor's
Independent candidate for chief exc
cutive, and other progressive candi-
dates and speakers. The victory was
so complete that even the most re-
dictionary were compelled to admit it,
and proves that the people of St. Peter
and Nicollet county, as well as all over
the state, are thoroughly awake to
the dangers that threaten Minnesota,
should the steel trust candidate be
elected governor.
About 5000 People Present.
There were about 5000 people
present in the courtroom and on the
courthouse grounds at St. Peter, who
listened for two solid hours to adj
dresses by DR.. Shipstead, Captain
George H. Mallon, Farmer-Labor's
Independent candidate for lieutenant
governor; James A. Manahan, who
substituted for Farmer-Labor's In
dependent candidate for attorney
general, Thomas v Sullivan, and R. A.
Pomadt of Faribault, Farmer-Labor
candidate for Congress in the Third
district The patience exhibited by
the large audience, and especially by
the large throng that was compelled
| to stand up during the entire program,
owing to lack of seating facilities, as
| we'll as the enthusiasm with which the
progressive speakers were received and
the applause which frequently inter
rupted their remarks, give an indica-
tion of how the common people of ST.
Peter and Nicollet county will vote on
the state ticket at the general election,
Tuesday, November 2.
Monster Overflow Meeting.
The meeting arranged by the county
committee Of the Nonpartisan League
was scheduled to be held in the court
room of the courthouse, which has a
seating capacity of about 700. The
auditorium was filled to overhowing
and many contented themselves with
standing room. The city authorities
of ST. Peter had provided electric lights
for German Park as deed of courtesy,
| I,1t
ladies and aged people present, it was
decided to have an overflow meeting
on the courthouse lawn. The open
air throng numbered between $500
and 1000 persons and covered the
space between the courthouse steps,
where the speakers stood, and the
center of the street, and from the jail
building to the Johnson monument.
The ground covered was almost block
long.
Preus Crowd Was Slim.
Preus and his coho ts held for that
the Opera House, which has seating
capacity of about 600. This was
comfortably filled, but not crowded.
The reactionaries resorted to a clever
ruse in order to give the impression
that it was necessary to hold an over
flow meeting at the Armory, whittier
the ST. Peter Band, which had been
engaged to furnish music for the steel
trust crowd, marched after the Opera
House meeting had been opened.
, Someone counted As men in the
, Armory. A loud-mouthed "barkus''
was stationed at the doors and shouted
walk right in, there's plenty of room,'
but in spite of his efforts the attendance
: was small. A goodly number among
the Opera House audience came from
Mankato to help. swell the crowd
! probably to react the depressing spirits
ct Preus and the other rplunderbunt
). Il speakers. S ~ sii-
Shipstead pste Parade First,
! The sShipstead parade was stage,
first, led by Hofmeister's Band of New
' Ulm. There were a large number Q
: enthusiastic progressives in the lin
a OF march. Following the Preus parade
i the people streamed to the court
$ house, a veritable landslide of humani
n ty. There were not enough peopl
t LETT to make up a fair-sized audienc
Z for the reactionary speakers.
; Speakers Flay Plunderbund.
nj Dr.. Shipstead, Minnesota's ne,
n governor, stated that the profteers
e today are not whit better than tn
I bandits who robbed DR.. Shipstead an
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