Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-28
League in 1916 as q likely candidate
for public office.
Carried In by League.

League in 1916 as 4 likely candidate
for public office.
Carried In by League.
He refused to grow excited. He took
it good humoredly. He developed into
a quite effective, matter of fact,
straight frCm the shoulder, unruffled
campaign speaker. The league fight
carried him into office and the anti
league fight carried him out at a re-
call election last year, after he had
twice been reelected. Through it all
he had been energetically in the fight,
never very much agitated, never
| alarmed and always with a watchful
eye on the farm.
This year he has enjoyed keenly a
vacation from his five-year public re-
sponsibility, which he has spent at
the congenial task of planting and har-
vesting a few hundred acres of grain
and caring for his livestock-horses
and cattle.
DR.. Shipstead, like former Governor
Norwegian parentage and proud OF his
heritage in both lands. The double
heritage gives him a background OF
history and he reads the literature of
the cold north as we'll as the Anglo
Saxon. His parents were among the
pioneers of Northern Minnesota-for
this country was late in its develop
ment. Gold attracted the first adven-
turers, and then timber, and the pure
ly agricultural regions Of the North
west waited for the coming of the
d-hungry from northern Europe. In
their early days in Minnesota, DR.. Ship
stead's parents saw members of the
tribe of Chippewa Indians more often
than they saw white neighbors.
Worked Way Through School.
Henrik Shipstead, one of the twelve
children, saw little to hope for on the
farm. Besides, he loved book better
than he did q plow. So he struggled
away from the plow He began to earn
his living at II. He put himself
ing on table and the usual odd jobs
coupled with farm work in the sum-
mer vacations, he finished course of
training in the dental college of North
western University at Chicago.
He has held two public offices. He
was mayor of the town Of Glenwood,
Minnesota, in which he practised his
profession until he moved to Minneap-
oils two years ago, and he served one
term in the legislature. He was a
candidate for congress in 1918 and was
defeated, and in 1920 was the unsuc-
cessful candidate for governor, both
in the Republican primaries and as an
independent in the fall election, OF the
Farmer-I4abor forces.
Living on a picturesque body of wa
ter in the heart Of the lake region or
Minnesota, DR.. Shipstead could scarce
ly escape being a fisherman. He Is
something Of an expert at casting for
bass. and one of his favorite annual
outings is hunt for big game in the
northern woods of Minnesota.
Welding of the Vote.
The election of Frazier and Ship
stead, particularly that Of Shipstead,
are witnesses to unique feature or
this years political overturn in the
west. That feature is a welding OF
the farmer vote and what is ordinarily
known as the working class" vote.
This is the most important effect
brought about by the organization and
campaigns of the Non-Partisan League.
In Minnesota these two groups at
length have built up a majority vari-
ously classed as independents" pro
gressives" and radicals"
In North Dakota the labor vote is
negligible. What there is Of it usually
has been with the Non-Partisan Lea
que. In Minnesota no candidate could
win on the farm vote alone. There
ore two political organizations, one
known cumbersomely as the Working
Peoples Non Partisan Political League
and the other, the farmers organiZa-
ton, simply as the Non-Partisan Lea
que. Their dual Endorsements made
possible Shipstead's victory. The Rev.
o. J. Kvale, the Lutheran minister
who defeated Volstead for congress-
has twice been their candidate.
The accomplished fact of this Farm
er-Labor alignment in the west IS
something that is giving genuine cause
for speculation on the future course
Of American political affairs. The
same alliance has been attempted ana
the attempt has failed in other states.
In Minnesota and in the northwest
generally the soil has been deeply
titled.
Politicians are likely to watch the
future of this development with
great deal OF interest
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