The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-03-26

n HR. CHRISTIANSON has been groomed for
iNI number of offices these last few years.
~ He is now being prominently mentioned
for United States Senator and for Governor. also
there are those who would like to see him run
for Congressman from the Seventh District.
Just yet he has not said which he will tackle.
But it is quite within the probable that he will
file for one or the other, United States Senator
governor.
Personally we should like to see him run for
the Senate
The Republican party of the state needs big
man to make the for the senate and it mas
not man in the state who will qualify in that
direction more quickly completely than
will Ted Christensen
A speaker at the Willmar convention men
ton this matter in remarks before that body and
the convention cheered the sentiment to the
echo
There is no doubt that Mr.. Christensen
could make the strongest run for the serate of
any man within the Republican ranks
There is not any doubt in mind that he
can be elected if he makes the run.
The people would welcome the opportunity
to place the senatorship in the hands of a man
of the character, the ability and the standing
of Mr.. Christinanscn.
~ UT the chances are that Mr.. Christensen
X will make the run for governor. IN this
- he would be hardening to those VINO con-
slider him the best qualified to hold that office of
any one so far named in that connection.
That he would make governor that the state
could be proud Of and one who would give busl
ness administration to the affairs Of state goes
without saying.
There is nothing sentimental about him. He
believes that the ideal must have the practica,
running mate.
He has vision-and lot of it-but he is not
visionary.
He accepts the theory of the predominance
of individual honesty among men ir the public
service, but he also recognizes the fact that, as
whole, office holders bear watching.
You can't fool him in this game Of politics
he has seen too much of it for that
THERE is not man on the public platform
in The state today who can sarpass him
when it comes to making speech.
"Ted's" speeches are different from most all
other speeches. The difference comes in in this
that every speech that Ted makes reads like a
book. His statements are accurate, his language
fauftless and he does not repeat himself. He rolls
out paragraph after paragraph than can be lifted
right over into newspaper form without chang
ing single sentence, without adding a comma
or crossing ''t''. He speaks in perfect sent
ences, his grammar is faultless and his diction
is that of Macaulay.
Theodore Christianson is of the type of men
Wendell Phillips had in mind when he produced
the lecture, "A Scholar in Republic"
He is scholar, a student, thinker!
In politics there are two kinds of students.
One kind studies the popular whims and learns
by heart the prejudices of the people. The other
studies fundamental principles and reasons from
given cause to the effect that viii follow.
Theodore is one of the latter school. He Is
. man who has schooled himself to think mis- own
thoughts and not merely to mouth the effusions
Of others.
-HERE are not many big men left in the
political game.
= The primary, the demagogues and the fail
IRE Of the people to stand by those who would