Morris tribune., 1920-07-16
REPUBLICANS WOULD
REFLECT VoLSTEAD
Enthusiastic Gathering at Ortonville
on Monday Will Organize Dis
trict for Victory

this district" emphatically declare
the resolutions adopted by the Re-
publ1cans assembled at Ortonvi1le on
Monday.
I'VE endorse Andrew J. Volstead
as the Republican nominee for con-
gress," was the motion unanimously
adopted after three hours ttoro-go-
ing discussion of Mr.. Volstead's ser
vice to the district in congress for
the past eighteen years.
Answering call sent out bv. a
meeting of Republicans of five coun-
ties held at Norris two days after
the primary, over three hundred Re-
publicans met at Ortonville on Mon
day afternoon to select Republican
nominee for congress from this dis
trict. The court room at Ortonville
was filled to overfiowing, and great
interest was manifested from the
start. ]. G. Morrison of Morris was
elected chairman and G. R. Baker Of
Willmar was elected secretary.
Mr.. Hopkins of Renville moved
that the convention endorse Mr..
Volstead and take the necessary
steps to place his name on the ballot
for the November election. In the
| discussion which followed practically
every county was heard from, and
each speaker urged some new reason
why Volstead should be reelected.
Among the points brought out was
that he had proved himself the
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running 1000 votes ahead Of the
state ticket, that he had been falsely
charged with helping pass seditio1l
bill when the bill had been opposed
by no one but the Socialist member
from New York, that he had been
criticised for voting for the Cum
mings railroad bill when that was
just what he should have done to
properly represent this district, that
he had had prominent part in the
prohibition enforcement legislation,
which is exactly the thing that the
people of this district expected Of
him, and would have been justi-
fed in defeating him if he had
done otherwise. His long and faith
ing, which is the chief industry Of
this district, was also cited. His de-
feat was ascribed to the unscrupul-
Gus tactics used by the opposition
while Mr. Volstead was busy in con-
gress and the false security which
the Republicans of the district felt
and their failure to put up cam
paign on his behalf.
The motion endorsing Volstead was
carried unanimously by rising vote.
While the resolutions committee
was celebrating, E. B. McCutcheon,
of Minot, N. D., gave rousing ad-
dress urging that the district be Or
ganized in the interest of the legis-
lative candidates opposed to Town
leyism.
The chairman was instructed to
appoint campaign committee con-
sisting of one member from each
county to prosecute the campaign for
the election of Mr.. Volstead. This
committee will be announced later.
F. W. Murphy, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, submitted
the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted:
RESOLUTIONS
We, the Republicans of the Seventh
Congressional District Of Minnesota, in
mass convention assembled at Orton~
vile on July 18th, 1920, pledge our sup
port to the platform adopted by the
State Republican Conventions of March
Goth and May Sth, 1920, and the Repub-
Mo- nF T,Js,n
1920. --
We commend to the farmers of west
central Minnesota the constructive,
comprehensive and timely agricultural
program for the farmers of America,
which being sponsored by the Minnesota
delegation at the Chicago Convention
was adopted as one of the most i'm
portant declarations of our great party
and we unhesitatingly endorse it's pro-
gram and pledge the Republican party
to the speedy fulfillment thereof. That
there may be no misunderstanding as
to just what portion of the national
platform is referred to, the same is
hereby presented: II
"The farmer is the backbone Of the
nation. National greatness and econ
omic independence demand a population
distributed between industry and the
farm, and sharing on equal terms the
prosperity which is wholly dependent on
the efforts of both. Neither can prosper
at the expense Of the other without in
viting joint disaster.
1.-THE crux Of the present agricultural
conditions lies in prices, labor ana
credit.
The Republican party believes that
this condition can be improved BY prac-
tical and adequate farm representation
in the appointment of governmental
officials and commissions; the right 10
form cooperative associations for mar
keting their products and pTotection
study of agricultural prices and farm
production costs at home and abroad,
with a view to reducing the frequency
of abnormal fluctuations; the uncensored
publications Of such reports; the auSn-
orization Of associations Tor tne e1tsn 81. !
4 sion of personal credit: nationaI m
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