The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-10-05

Gus reasons why they shoulde be rec
ognized.
On Monday the Republican State
Central Committee with C. R. Adams
in charge opened campaign headquar-
tiers in the st Paul Hotel. The Dem. :
ocratic State Organization is already
established in the West Hotel in Min
neapolis, and the Farmer-Labor Crowd
is dispensing campaign wisdom from
the law offices of Fred Pike, the
Farmer-Labor state chairman, in the
Globe Building, st Paul. Yes, the
1922 State Campaign is on in earnest
and it will be on with vengeance
right up to November 7, election day.
r.
Rev. o. j. Kvale, of Benson. In
dependent Candidate for Congress in
the Seventh District filed the neces-
sary petition this week and is now a
full-fedged rival of A. j.. Volstead' S
seat in the National Congress. The
filing of his petition was followed by
a meeting of the Kvale clan, and
judging from the interest shown the
Seventh District is due for the bit
terest congressional fight in its his
tory. Minnesota has some five con-
gressional scraps in which there is an
element of doubt, at least those seek
ing the official scalps of the present
Republican incumbents so claim, but
none of them exceed in importance
the one now being waged in the Sew
enth. In a way the contest is of ma
tional importance for if Volstead goes
down to defeat it will be generally
taken as meaning that the dry move
ment and the Volstead Act has suf-
fered setback. Knowing this the
dry forces, are preparing to invade
the district in force.
Rev. Kvale is a dry and in a pub
lie statement made at Benson he hint
ed that if the truth was known he was
even dryer than Volstead. Two years
ago Rev. Kvale worsted Volstead in
the primary fight but lost out in a
court action because of charged vio-
lation of the corrupt practice act. In
the general election he filed as an in
dependent but failed to make the
grade although he crowded Volstead
rather uncomfartably. His chief plea
is for vindication.
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Congressional fights are being
waged not only in the Seventh but
in the Eighth, Ninth, Fourth, Fifth
and Sixth Districts, but they are not
regarded as unusually serious as far
as the present Republican incumbents
are concerned. The contest in the
Eighth, where Congressman o. j. Lar
son and w. I. Carss are the contest
ants, is attracting considerable at
tention but in the others the Republi-
can incumbents are regarded as fairly
safe. In the Fifth District the con-
gressional situation has been some
what complicated by the withdrawal
of the Farmer-Labor candidate and
the narrowing down of the contest to
Congressman w. H. Newton and J.
R. Coan, a Democrat, but the form
er's heavy primary vote is expected
to pull him through. Stevenson in
the Ninth District has Farmer-La-
Dor candidate on his trail and Con-
gresham. Knutson of the Sixth has
Democrat for rival. In the Fourth
District Congressman Keller is re-
garded as reasonably safe
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Under a ruling of the State SUI
preme Court the present grand jury
has been somewhat curtailed as to
findmings appeal to any, quite num-
Der of old practitioners honestly be-
lieve that step backward has been
taken. They intimate that hysteria
growing out of the crime wave is re-
sponsile and that time will justify
their point.
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Additional laws fixing the per cap
ita expenditures by Minnesota towns