The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-10-02
SAUK CENTRE FOLKS
LIKE CHRISTIANSON
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR PLEASES MONDAY
EVENINGS AUDIENCE
HE KNOWS MINNESOTA
STANDS COMMITTED TO BUDG-
EFT SYSTEM TO HANDLE
STATES BUSINESS 49,

saturday d1ternoon VI ldoe WSCh
Mayor VIM. Parker received notice
that Theodore Christensen, Repubil,,
can candidate for Governor, would
address the citizens of Sank Centre
Monday evening. ~
The time was too short to get any
newspaper publicity but the Caugh-
rem Theatre was secured and every
possible effort was made to get an
audience to hear Minnesota.s next
governor expound the political issues
of the day.
When Mayor Parker called the
meeting to order Monday evening at
S:15 and audience of between 250
and 800 people were on hand.
C. E. Bohall, of Sank Centre, can
didate for the legislature, was flrst
introduced and made very favor
able impression. Mr.. Bohall did not
enter the legislative contest OF his
own seeking but was drafted by a
committee of so citizens represent
ing five of the largest voting centers
in the district.
Mayor Parker then called on Asa
M. Wallace, Herald editor an old
friend of the principal speaker OF the
evening, to introduce Mr.. Christian
son.
1t did not take Ted long to get
down to brass tacks in his address.
He told his audience he believed that
if the members Of the so-called Far
mer-Labor party would but read the
entire platform of the party, the
great majority of them would vote
the Republican ticket and refuse to
stand for the socialistic plan OF pub
lie ownership for which the Farmer
Labor platform declares and it car
ried out would bury Minnesota so
deep in bonded Indebtedness that fl
nancial chaos would be the inevita-
BILE result.
Mr.. Christianson declared that he
himself was born on a Minnesota
farm, and brought up as farmer
until he was % years of age, when
he left to get university education,
and that he understood the trials and
needs of those who have to labor.
"My sympathies are not for the
drones of society,"" he said, "but with
the workers; with the common peo-
pie of whom Abraham Lincoln said,
God must have loved them because
he made so many of them
Mr.. Christianson devoted his Sank
Centre address largely to demon
strating that economic forces and not
the government was responsible for
the period of depression. He ex-
planned that the war created tremen-
dous demand for American produc-
ton, and that following the war with
the opening of the Argentine, Aus
tralia, and New Zealand grain reser-
voirs, the great additional supply
naturally tended to reduce prices, es-
pecially with the impoverished con-
dition of war-stricken nations.
The American government then
took important steps for relief OF
the farmers. The Federal Land
Bank Act was sustained by the fed
eral supreme court and thes banks
resumed operation. In Minnesota, a
constitutional amendment which Mr..
Christensen sponsored was adopted
creating a state credits system as
result of which interest rates were
materially reduced. The govern
ment set itself to relieving taxation,
but was faced with war obligations,
the payment of established war sal
aries, and the, enlarging of institu-
tions to repair the physical wreckage
of the war. J as
In Minnesota, a step forward was
made by refusing fifteen millions of
dollars requested in appropriations at
the 1923 legislative session. In this
work Mr.. Christensen, as chairman
of the House Appropriations Com
mittee, took leading part. At the
same time nearly five millions more
state aid was granted for schools
throughout The state, thus materially
relieving local school taxes.
Mr.. Christensen strongly urged
enactment Of budget system law to
keep down state government expen-
ditures and pledged himself if elect
ed to use every influence, of the exec
utive office toward this end. He
called attention to the enactment OF
cooperative marketing law in Min
nesota, by a Republican legislature,
which was so successful that it was
largely copied in the passage OF a
similar act by Congress.
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Mr.. Christianson had delivered
four other political addresses Nom
day before reaching Sank Centre.
He was in good voice, however, and
held his Sank Centre audience in a
snlendid manner. His grasp of state
affairs was i revelation to many.
While he severely arraigned the pole
lcies and futile promises OF Floyd
Olson, so-called Farmer-Labor can.
didate, his address was free from
ranchor and personal abuse;
Judging by the favorable conn
ment made by those attending Mon
day evenings meeting Mr.. Christian
son sold himself to those who heard
his address Monday evening.
Ted Christianson is country
newspaper publisher at Dawson, Lac