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

cal labor council and the management
by private enterprise is found IN the
building Of the Auditorium and the
nanced at the same time. The Nicol-
let Hotel as a private enterprise is
now completed and has been in opera
ium, which has become the football
or Socialist politics in the city, has
not had shovelfull of earth turned
in it's construction as yet.
think the people of Todd county
should know little more about Alder
man Scott, inasmuch as he is perhaps
the man closet to -1oyc olson in q
out doubt will be very close to the
Olson administration if there is sucn
an administration after January l..
Alderman Scott was one of the Min
neapolis radical leaders who brought
out Olson as a governorship candi-
date. Candidates for state office are
ally one representative on the State
Central Committe of the party. A cir
cumstance that is significant because
it gives line on the political rela-
Mr.. Olson is connected, is that after
his nomination in the primaries Mr..
Olson turned to Alderman Scott to
make him his personal representative
Farmer-Labor party. Alderman Scott
is also one of those in active charge
OF the Olson campaign in Hennepin
county which is being directed from
the Olson headquarters in the West
Hotel.
Alderman Scott is an I. w. w. and
he proudly proclaims the fact. He
has been a member of the Minneapolis
representing the radical Tenth ward.
To show that Alderman Scott's 1. w.
w. relations are not merely my opin-
ion, l quote from an official report
lnfn 10, I1r
cial committee of the city council to
investigate the activities of the 1 w.
VS., The report is a part of the Of
fetal records which 1 examined at the
city hall. After referring to the hear
ings in the matter as conducted by the
committee of the council that had been
appointed to investigate, the report
reads:
attendant at the hearings and
zealously defended policies, activi-..
ties and teachings Of the L. w. w.
Organization, proudly stating that
WV. twice and that he would
have been a member at that time
if the bylaws of the 1: w. w: did
not prohibit public office holders
from membership"
That would seem without much
question to locate and place Alderman
ly as a leader of the council and di-
rector Of the radical politics of the
city indicate just as well his point of
view and his purposes.
The council minutes for October "a,
1919, page 843, refer to a demand made
by Alderman Scott that the 1. w. w.
meetings at No. IA First Street South
be not molested by the service men
and he took the side of the I. w. WIS
against the service men in very ac-
tive effort.
In January, 1919, when the Mime
apolis council was considering a reso-
luton of sympathy to Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt upon the death of her hus-
band, Alderman Scott led fight in
the council against the adoption of the
resolution and voted against it's adop-
tion. His action and course in this I
found has been typical of his leader
ship in the council, being, bitterly and
openly opposed to all exhibitions and
expressions of sentiment or feeling re-
lating to Americanism or appeals in
behalf of the government. The reso-
luton of sympathy to Mrs. Roosevelt,
which Alderman Scott opposed, was
couched in modest and tender Ian
guage and it would seem that it con-
IL ined nothing at which even an l. w.
W., like Alderman Scott could justly
take offense. The record of the coun-