The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-10-02
OLSONpS PLAN OF
GOVERNMENT i'm MIN
NEAPOLIS EXPENSIVE
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made Of late years in Minneapolis by
the Socialists and radical labor ele-
ment to force city government ana
municipal ownership of utilities with
themselves the managers of the enter
prises and he, as much as any other
of the council leaders, is responsible
for the policies which have boosted so
tremendously the taxes of the city and
which have built up the Socialist city
political machine by the method OF
adding. astonishingly to the municipal
pay rolls.
The selection of Alderman Scott by
Mr.. Olson to be his personal campaign
representative is it seems to me there
fore significant. After having worked
with Alderman Scott in the city for a
considerable time, after knowing him
intimately and personally and after
knowing full well what Alderman Scott
and those associated with him are
fairs. I cannot help but ask the peo-
pie of Todd county. because the mat
ter appeals to me so strongly, what
business has Mr.. Olson, who is ask.
Todd county to make him governor, to
draw to him as his personal state com
mittee representative and campaign
man Scott?
The fear. arises to prompt the ques--
ton, especially because Mr.. Olson told
us at the county fair he wanted to
transfer to the state capitol a Farm
er-Labor'' administration of the same
kind Minneapolis now has, just how
far is the influence of Alderman Scott
Dor leaders of the Minneapolis city
council to go in the management of
our state after next January in case
Mr.. Olson is elected?
With all the sincere and loyal
farmer members of his party that
there are scattered over the state,
why was it necessary, or why did
Mr.. Olson deem it expedient, to
draw to him as advisor and cam
paign manager man of Alderman
Scotts political purposes?
Was it because his relationships
with Minneapolis Socialist and radical
labor politicians made it necessary for
him to make such a selection? Does 1T
mean that this Socialist and radical
labor influence which is now upper
most in directing his campaign. in his
home city of Minneapolis, is likewise
to be the dominating influence in his
administration if he takes up the
next January? Isn't it well to think
about this a little bit?
What was it that Tom Davis him
self not sqeamish about ordinary radi-
calism or radical leadership really
knew about the political relationships
of Mr.. Olson in Minneapolis that
prompted him to write publicly to Mr..
Communist 4. ". W. affiliations be-
fore he would agree to support him as
the successful primary nominee for
Other Minneapolis Advisors
The old Socialist and radical labor
political organization in Minneapolis
since the birth of the new Farmer,
name and is now known as the Hen
nepin County Farmer Labor Fedora
ton" With farmer votes needed to
put it's candidate, Mr.. Olson, into the
governorship, it would not do to con.
tinue the Socialist name by which it
was known when it elected Thomas
put the present Socialist and radical
labor majority into the council.
On April "a, 1924, Richard Wiggin
r. D. Cramer and Henry Wuerzinger
went before the Central Committee OF
this so-calld Farmer-Labor Federation
to urge the endorsement Of Floyd Oh
son fer governor in the primary eles-
ton. The endorsement was given. l
mention this Sonly because it gives one
more side light on the character Of
the leadership in Minneapolis that is
kind of leadership that undoubtedly
would be back of the Olson administra-
tion after January,
l found that with rev, II any, ex-
ceptions, the leaders who are directing
the Olson campaign in his home city
of Minneapolis and his home county
of Hennepin are not men of the con-
sentative labor union type They are,
so far as 1 could observe. all from the
Socialist and radical labor ranks.
What would this mean in the way Of
advisors, counselors and influence at
the states capitol after January /?
Not to make the story too long, but
to refer only to the three men. who
directed and managed the securing of
the Central Committee of the Henne-
pin County Farmer-Labor Federation,
so-called, 1 found that they are in a
general way of the same type as Alder
charge of the Olson campaign: l do
not say they are 1. w. WIS although
However, they are all men of extreme
ly radical views and busy at work TO
advance radical political purposes.
R. ID. Cramer, one Of the three men
who directed the entrance OF Mr.. OIL
son into the primary campaign, is ede-
tor of the Minneapolis Labor Review,
one of the most radical newspapers IN
the United States. This paper under
Cramer's management is the. official
organ of the Trades and Labor As
sembly of Minneapolis, union labor
lean Federation of Labor has on several
occasions threatened to. take away It's
charter because. as was charged, It's
activities are more of an L W: W:
character than of those of a legitimate
union organization.
1 read at considerable length from
Cramer's newspaper VIKINGS. n Inc;
radicaIism. There is no doubt in my
mind whatever but that Cramer is q
Communist and that he would join
hands if the occasion presented itself
to destroy our form Of government. l
found that Cramer is one Of the most
persistent workers in Minneapolis for
the olson candidacy and that appar-
emily he stands high in the .counsels
of those who are managing the Olson
campaign in that city. There is every
reason to believe that his selection on
the committee of three to present the
demand for the Olson primary en-
dorsement for governor by the Henne,
pin County Farmer-Labor Central
COMMITTEES, was not an accident, but
that he was there naturally as a rep,
resentative of the Socialist and radical
labor element in Minneapolis that Sc.
lected Mr.. Olson and that is now most
active in the management OF his home
campaign.
niger. while not of the Cramer wing
of the labor radicals, are nevertheless
prominent as radical Socialist poll.
ticians of the city and I found are
closely associated with the Olson can
didacy in Minneapolis Richard Wig.
gin is often referred as the "b brains.
anolis. He occupies the official posi-