The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-01-19
ST. PAUL LETTER

CONGRESSMAN, A. J. Volstead of
the Seventh District is reported to be
somewhat and official future and we'll
political and official future and we'll
he NAV. He wants to go back to
congress again, but if there is any
thing in the dope waited down this
way, a certificate for another two
wears residence at the National Capt.
toll is not going to be handed to him
on silver platter. Congressman
Voistead's one and absorbing hobby
is the dry act bearing his name and
the claim is that it has been permit
ted to impair his usefulness IN the
matter of the agricultural and other
legislative needs of his district. Fur
Their. any number of those who aided
in his return to congress IN the last
campaign, following crushing defeat
in the primaries at the hands OF =.
J. Kvale, Nonpartisan Leader, who
was later disqualified because OF a
charged violation of the state cor
rupt practices act think they stretch
ed a point in enabling Volstead to
again appeal to the voters and that
he should no longer impose upon their
generosity. He wanted vindicatlon'
he got it and they believe that he
should now retire. Congressman
Volstead is now serving his tenth
consecutive term in congress. Prac-
tically an unknown, he edged IN dur
ing an extremely bitter congressional
fight in 1903 in which E. T. Young
latter attorney general and the late
Mike Bowling We're the principal
warning candidates for the Republican
nomination. 1t was the first year OF
the primary law and its minority Tea
lures were of material beneflt TO
Volstead. For several campaigns the
Seventh district congressman was
practically unopposed, but in 1913
opposition in the person OF r.. =:
Lobeck, we'll known prohibltlonlst
appeared and Volstead had anything
but an easy task disposing Of him.
In the Republican primaries OF a
year ago, he went down to defeat at
the hands of Rev. o. j. Kvale leag-
uer, but the corrupt practices act was
invoked and the nomination of Kvale
set aside. In the general election
which followed Volstead prevailed ov-
er Kvale, who ref filed as an indie
pendent, but twas only the. appeal
to the loyalty of the voters as made by
the Republican leaders that saved him.
AS it was, he scraped through. That
Kvales nomination represented the
wishes of a majority of the Repub-
lican voters of the district is without
question, but was at period when
the state at large was anything but
pleased at the prospect of Socialist
regime and the appeal to the cro-
rupt practices act mentioned gave the
relief desired. Things are different
now and so is the general feeling to-
ward the Seventh District congress
man. The most talked of possible
successor is Representative Theodore
Christensen of Lac qui Parle county.
Senator James A. Carley of Waba-
sha county may be the Democratic
offering for governor in the coming
state campaign. Friends are URGING
him to enter either the race for
United States Senator or governor
and it is said the latter looks the best
to him. Senator Carley is chairman
of the executive branch of the Dem
ocratic state central committee and
is high in the councils of his party.
The state tax commission has for
warded blanks to the mining compan-
les operating on the Iron Range as
provided for under the new tonnaee
tax law and the recention of the
same is anxiously awaited. This Is
the first step in the collection of the
tax and the commission is very much
in the dark as to whether the corr !
panieS will comply or nrenare to