Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-03
AFTER SCHALL'S HIDE

Senate of the Minnesota state legis-
lature by Senator Victor Lawson of
Willmar, last Thursday setting forth
the manner in which Thomas D.
Schall conducted his campaign for the
United States Senate in 1924 and ask
ing for an investigation of same.
Somehow or other, the American
has never had the faith, in Thos. D.
Schall that we should have in a pub
lie official. We have never. had the
goods" on him and could therefore
not state that he was corrupt or the
like of that, but his many camou-
flaging stunts have certainly tended
to lower him in our estimation and
we have never been able to whole
heartedly support and boost him. AL
though hearing him speak one has
sometimes been led to believe that he
was a man of courage and was fight
pie. He is certainly tireless work
er. One thing that has set us against
him is his working on peoples SYM
pathies on account of his blindness.
Taking advantage of his personal af-
Fiction in a political way is some
thing not to be honored. His remarks
about not being able to see all the
dear people" but his "heart is beat
ing for them, and when he speaks his
wife, campaign manager, or some
other member of the party, gets up
and straighten him around after he
has turned his back to, the audience
and is talking away from them in
stead of toward them; and stunts of
that kind certainly go against the
grains of a person after seeing them
put over time and again. The frank
ing privilege granted congressman
was certainly overdone in the ten
years Schall served the Tenth Con-
gressional District. Sending letters
of congratulation to a family where
a child was born or where a wedding
occurred, and again letters of regret
where death occurred-circular letters
with his signature rubber stamped and
all that kind of cut and dried bunk
which is camouflage in the highest
degree and nothing more or less than
playing on the ignorance of his con-
stituents, is something to be abhorred.
No, when we have gotten to the extent
that a person in order to be elected
to a high office must send out form
letters of congratulation for every
baby that is born, it is high time to
wake up and call a halt. That is
SOME type of craftsmanship.
In the primaries of 1924, Schall was
opposed by Judge Hallam, formerly
of the state supreme court, and Ole
Sageng, former state senator, either
of whom would have filled the office
of United States senator with more
dignity and far less camouflage. In
the general election, he was opposed
by Magnus Johnson, man who is far
more representive of the people of
Minnesota than said Schall Secur-
ing the Republican nomination, Schall
slid in on the coat tail of Coolidge in
the Republican landslide that swept
the country in 1924. The election
was really personal victory for Mag
nus johnson for in spite of the Rep
ublican landslide, he came within
about 1000 votes of being elected,
which was certainly very close in a
statewide election. Schall who is
now sticking pretty close to- the old
guard and voting accordingly, will
probably not be out hollering much
more about his challenge to anyone
who can show that he ever voted
against the interests of the farmer
nor against the interests Of labor and
offering to give thousand dollars to
anyone being able to show that ne
ever voted against their interests.
1t will be no Qualification to the
Republican party to be upholding this
man. The resolution introduced in
the Minnesota senate by Victor e.
Lawson, who is not afraid of the cars,
is as follows:
Whereas, it is reported in the
public press and is charged gen
orally that at the general election
in November, 1924, resulting in
the election of Thomas D. Schall
as United States Senator from
Minnesota, there were wholesale
violations of the Corrupt Prac-
tices Act, the principal charge be-
ing that the successful candidate
was the beneficiary of large con-
tributions of money, furnished by
persons engaged in the violation
of the Federal Prohibition Act.
commonly known as Bootleg