The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-10-02
CHASE VIGOROUSLY
OPENS CAMPAIGN
Keynote Speech Delivered In
Home Town of Anoka,
Tuesday Evening
A PRACTICAL PROGRAM
Strong for BabcOck Highway
Program, st. Lawrence
Waterway

Declaring the people of America
govern themselves through choos-
ing, by their votes, between pro-
grams for state and national deve-
lopment submitted to them by two
dominant political parties, each
sponsoring certain definite prin-
ciples, Ray P. Chase, Republican
nominee for Governor, in his add
ress delivered in his home city of
Anoka Tuesday evening submitted
to the voters of Minnesota a defin>
lite program to meet the problems
confronting Minnesota today.
The defective election laws of
Minnesota, Mr.. Chase said, make no
legal provision for party platform
and until they are properly amend
ed the keynote speech of the guber-
material nominee must serve.
Parties, Problems, Programs
Fortified by his familiarity with
states business in all it's phases
gained through fourteen years
service in the state auditors office
Mr.. Chase plunged into discus
sion of Americas party system OF
government and analysis of the
states problems and presentation,
on behalf of the Republican party
of a construction program for state
development.
In his audience were hosts of
neighbors and boyhood friends, Re-
publican leaders from all over the
state and thousands of citizens to
many of whom his voice was car
ried outside the packed Armory by
amplifiers.
Presented With Car
AS Mr.. Chase entered the Armory
a group of his old friends and
neighbors and officers of the An
Okla County Ray P. Chase for Gov
ernor Club presented him with an
automobile and special trailer, the
use of which is their contribution
to assist him in his speech-making
tour of the state in the final weeks
of his campaign.
Without political parties popu-
lar government would fail, Mr..
Chase said. Since the purpose of a
political party is to sponsor prin-
ciples, when it sacrifices its prin-
eciples to the ambitions of an indivi-
dual it's usefulness ends.
He pointed out that in the u
years of Minnesota's statehood the
Democratic and the Republican
have been the dominant parties. He
declared the Farmer-Labor party
is dead, it's principles abandonded.
Farmer-LabOr Party Dead
Once it represented a splendid
band of men and women, Mr.. Chase
said, Today the Farmer-Labor par
ty is only the husk of the party Of
1920. Then is was aggressively pro-
gressive. Now in it's platform there
is little that is worthy and less that
is progressive, little that is honest
and nothing that is sincere.
Political history records no more
audacious or insolent attempt to
defile a political party than the
present attempt by political pir-
ates to scrap the life-giving prin-
ciples of the Farmer-Labor party
and make a job hunting band-wag-
on of it's corpse.
Democrats Stick to Principles
The Democratic party on the
other hand presents a record spark
ling with brilliant achievement, Mr..
Chase said. 1t has given us Jeffer-
son, Jackson, Cleveland and Wilson
and Alfred E. Smith, one of the
best loved public men of our gen
Grafton. It has kept constant to it's
principles.
The Republican party likewise is
loyal to it's ideals, the nominee stat
ed. It has given to America Abra-
ham Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Nc
Kinley, Roosevelt, Coolidge; and
the best equipped president who
ever held that office-Herbert
Hoover.
Carve State From Wilderness
For 81 of our u years of state
hood, the republican party has pre-
vailed in Minnesota. Within that
time it has carved from the wilder
ness a commonwealth of churches
schools and homes. Through Cover
nor Ramsey it laid the foundation
for Americas best state land policy
finest school system and LARGEST
educational trust funds. It has
created an industrial department
and protected men, women and
children who labor, developed a
department of agriculture and en-
acted more and better agricultural
legislation than any other state in
the sisterhood.
There never has been finer oppor-
tunity for service than that before
Minnesota Republicans today, Mr..
Chase said. BY no possible chance
can the Democratic party win this
election, he declared, while the
group now presuming to represent
the Farmer-Labor party offers no