The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-10-02

falr held In Long Pralrle, he made
SO many extravagant statements that
Rudolph Lee, the very efficient edit
or If the Long Prairie Leader, de-
voted considerable time and expense
in making a trip to Minneapolis to
INVESTIGATE. Mr.. Lee found among
other things, on checking up, that
there had been an increase of SO per
cent in the operating of the office Cf
county attorney of Hennepin coIa.o,
since Mr.. Olson became county at
torncy of Hennepin county a few
years ago and that the taxes ir Min
Heapclis have increased by leaps and
bound since that city passed uader
the Socialistic control.
The Herald is convinced that the
Minnesota farmer is not a radical
and believing this, we are publishing
herewith Mr.. Lees extended report
which completely shows that Mr.. Oh
son is not a safe man to take over
the business of this great state as
governor. The report says:
When Floyd Olson. candidate of the
so-called Farmer.Labor party, spoke at
our county fair, he said that the pres
ent council of his home city of Mime
apolis is a Farmer Labor council.
III discussing CnlS cOuucll, ne SdlQ ne
had helped to elect it and that in his
management of the office Of County
Attorney of Hennepin couny he is in
close working relations and co-opera-
ton with its majority leaders.
He praised it's record and expressed
his pride and satisfaction in the re-
cord; in fact as we remember his ad-
dress, he took to himself and his as
a considerable measure of credit for
the accomplishments of the council.
Those who heard his address will
recall that he referred to the work Of
tally in the matter of economy, as
well as in service to the people.
He offered the Minneapolis city coun-
Gil as typical of the administration
Labor leaders and he said that if
elected governor it would be his am
bition to give to Minnesota the same
kind of an administration that his
counc, is giving to his HON. ci of
Minneapolis.
Inasmuch as it is claimed that Mr..
that after next January /, he would
be able to transfer to the states cap
itol, as he said he desired to do, the
same kind of an administration that
his political associates in Minneapolis
are giving the city, 1 thought / would
go down to Minneapolis and learn
first hand just what kind of an ad-
ministration the city has, what it has
done that should SO commend it, what
it is doing and what it is trying to do.
If our state government after Janu-
neapolis city council, / was interested
to learn something about the model.
j presume other citizens throughout
Todd county are likewise interested so
!! publish herewith the results of my
investigation.
1 want. to say that 1 went to Min
neapolis without any predjudice
AGAINST Mr.. Olson or the council he
q 70 nd
whose work and policies and methods
he told us he wanted to extend and
broaden to cover the entire state. I
desired simply to learn first-hand for
myself what it is that this council
made up as Mr.. Olson told us it is of
men who are associated with him po-
out doubt would be close to his admin
istration after January l, has done
and is doing in the matter of admins
trative influence to so recommend it to
it to us in his address here.
In order to show that 1 have made
no haSty investigation and that l was
thorough and painstaking, 1 wish to
say that 1 spent six days of last week
in Minneapolis, engaged the entire
time in studying the work the policies
and the record of the city's council.
consulted official records at the city
hall and court house, the findings OF
investigation committees and the Of
fetal minutes Of responsible organiZa-
tons engaged in compiling tax re.
cords.
found such an astonishing con-
ditiOn Of affairs, such evidence of
reckless waste of the taxpayers
money, such a bold and open eff
fort to use the cfty's business to
build up and strengthen Social
list and radical labor political ma
chine, with the leadership of which
do not believe a single thought
full farmer In Todd county is in
sympathy In it's management and
policies by men of the extreme So
ciaIist and radical labor type. that
1T seemed to me If this is the kind
of management, the kind of poll
cfes, the point of view, the kind of
that are to be transferred to the
states capitol after January 1, as
MIR Olson told us was going to be
the case, 1T might be well for the
people to think the matter over a
little bit. :. :.
I am making this report of my in
vestigation solely in desire to give
to pd the people PEG of Todd county the trutl
Mr.. Olson told US he was associated
with in political way in his hom,
city and the influence to which HI
states capitol if elected.
Report
I found it true, as Mr.. Olson stated
that the Minneapolis city council ma
jority is made up of his political as
soc1ates and that he is in close politi
cal and personal relationship will
them.
I found the city council to be mad,
up of 26 aldermen, elected two from
each of thirteen wards. Fourteen Of
these aldermen comprise a majority
and control the council. These four.
teen men regularly work and vote to
gether as a unit. Although I wen,
back over the official minutes of the
council ever since it was elected
did not find any instances where this
majority of fourteen did not stan(
practically as a unit on all matter.
of policy and administration. I foun(
that their control of the council is air
tight and absolute. The names Of
these fourteen members are: Bastis
Lindsten. Dunleavy. Hadley, Peterson
Hanscome, Gisslen, Voelker, Scott, Gui
der. Prits, Beneke. Rudsdie and Jen.
: son.
I found that the basis for Mr..
Olson's claim to US that the Minne-
apolis city council is q Farmer
labor council is that the council
is controlled by these fourteen
men.
I found that none of these fourt Ger
men are farmers, or ever have been
i found that with possibly two excep.
tions all OF the fourteen are men al
extreme Socialistic and radical labor
type and have been closely associated
for years with and are O part OF the
radical political organization OF the
city.
I also found. and to my surprise
that Mr.. Olson's closest political as
-1nciafQs on tho oo.nci1 "a not tho nor,