Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1922-09-15
.INDREHUS DELIVERS
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MAKES ADDRESS AT HIS FARM
TO LARGE GATHERING FROM :.
ABOUT THE STATE /
Before a splendid gathering Of people,
coming from different parts of the
state, and the '3home folks'', Edward
lndrehus, democratic candidate for gov
ernor, on Tuesday afternoon delivered
the opening address of his campaign
from platform erected on his fine
farm near Foley.
His hearers were struck with the
directness of his speech as we'll as by
the sincere tone which it carried, and
as many stated, it would mean thous-
ands of votes, if he could personally
carry his message to the voters Of Min
nesota.
A short but excellent address,, enough
to show why she is being listened to
by such large audiences in all parts of
the state, was delivered by Anna Dickie
Olesen, democratic candidate for sena-
tor. Other speakers were DR.. Gilkin-
son of Osakis; Chas. Andrist of Mime
apolis; Mrs. Gault of St. Peter, demo.
cratic candidate for congress from the
third district; Mrs. Blair, vice-chairman
Of the national democratic committee
and County Attorney Swenson Of Foley.
John Lind, who was unable to be
present, sent a letter of support and
touched on some of the issues of the
campaign.
Jos. Wolf, chairman of the democrat
ic state central committee, presided.
Among those in attendance from
Morrison county were E. F. Shaw, P. s.
Randall, Geo. Moeglein, ST., P. J. Lauer-
man and P. J. Vasaly of Little Falls.
The speech of Mr.. Indrehus, in part,
is as follows:
"In looking over the great crowd
here [ need not tell you that real
ize that you are not here because
of your interest in me personally, but
the fact that I am the choice of one
Of the two great political parties in
this state, as its candidate for govern
or in what promises to develop into a
very important contest, is sufficient
reason.
shall state at the outset that when
mention public officials in connec-
tion with criticism, it is only such
and not as private individuals, and
when I refer to the dominant party
l mean the little bunch of professional
politicians now in control, and not the
great bulk of those affiiating, to the
extent of casting their votes.
In view Of present critical condi-
tons in the state, in the nation, and in
Ethe world, sober cosideration and
EoPen.mindedness should be the order
of the day.
The last few years have constituted
a period of. strife-internationa in
dustrlal and political. New political
organizations have come into existence
largely because the dominant party
refused to voice the sentiments Of the
wealth creating portion of society.
The great republican party in this
state, for the last four years, has been
appealing to the democratic party, to
keep their party loyal', as the pro-
gressives threatened to capture their
organization. This republican propa.
ganda, to some extent, has broken
down the old structure Of the demo-
critic party in Minnesota, but the dis
ruption has now enabled the people
to capture the democratic organiza-
tion, and henceforth it will be used
for the betterment of the social, polit-
ical and economic condition Of tho
people.
When. the leaders of political
party and public officials are servants
of organized greed, the members com
to oust their leaders from control.
The people belonging to the republic
an party have made several such at
tempts in this state in the last few
years, but in vain.
The vested interests, in control Of
many newspapers and good share Of
the system of credits and finance, ap-
parently have more influence, with the
present state administration than
have the people.
Preceding the election two years
ago different "educational' organiz'
cations were formed, such as the "Citi.
zens' League', the "Sound Govern
ment Associations some secret Or
ganizations with no name on the door,
and others. Large sums of money
were secretly collected by skilful
solicitors, largely from the banks and
other big interests. Paid agents OF
these organizations were maintained IN
most of the counties Of the state, osten-
sibly to stamp out radicahsm. Loyalty
to country consisted in posting up and
passing around posters and campaign
material for Harding and ''The Gov
ernor ''-the loyalty candidate Tor gov
ernor. The minnesota ISSUE, a
magazine published two years ago dur
ing the campaign, which was nothing
but an organ in behalf of predatory in;
terests and mouth-piece Of entrenched
>, privilege, was sent through the mails
7tfree gratis' to most of the voters OF
Minnesota. According to its doctrine,
good citizenship consisted exclusively
Of voting for group Of hand-plcked
republican candidates. ~.
This system Of propaganda was II
resistible-like food over the state
} Close observers insist that the combln'
ed interest two years ago in Minnesota
had the Newberry program IN A'cn1gan
'Ihacked off the boards two to one.
Ny intention in laying this founda'
tion for my remarks is to prove to you
to some extent at least, the gravity OF
the situation.
By a. vote of the people, after this
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