Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-07-10
CHALLENGE Is ACCEPTED

Frederic Ii. BfanueS IN Wnlcn Sdlu
Brandes writes that he is authorized
by his father-in-law, Representative
Jos. E. Therrien to challenge me, his
opponent in the coming election, to
public discussion of the issues before
the people of Pine county.
This challenge is cheerfully ac-
cepted. Mr. Therrien does not come
out black on white and write any
thing over his own signature, evident
" preferring to use his SOn-in-law's
so that if anything is wrong. and
which has certainly been proven in
the iron ore tax discussion where
young Brandes has completely con-
tradicted himself-then he (Therrien)
feels that he does not have to take
the responsibility because his name
aid not appear under the articles.
Likely it would be best to have d
series of three debates, one in Pine
City, the home town of Mr.. Therrien,
'another in my home town of Askov,
and third debate at some point
in between, perhaps Hinckley. And
if Mr. Therrien would care for a
fourth debate at some point over on
the 500 Line in the eastern part of
Pine county, | shall be glad to ac-
commodate him. Young Brandes--
which means Mr.. Entertainments
over the fact that have not inserted
in my platform any mention of a pro-
posed state printing plant. l issued
statement at the time of filing
which gave my stand on four or five
states issues, that is more than most
of the men who file for the legislature
have done, and to date we have not
seen one word in the form of a state
ment or platform from Representa-
tive Therrien. | could have included
in my platform mention of the pro-
posed state printing plant, but mas
much as it was not dOne-there is a
| limit to how much might be men
toned in a PLATFORM shall be glad
to discuss this issue as well as others
in the debate.
| | note that Representative Stock
well is called a Socialist. He. of
course, is very able to answer for him
self and will likely do so. l am not
a Socialist. but public ownership of
waterpower sites sounds pretty good
to me, and certainly we do not want
natural resources exploited by indi-
viduals at the cost of the general
public. All the federal post offices
seem to fare good under government
no
there is also the public schools, the
universities, the road building, etc
But i'm the city of Two HarbOrs where
it was found that the prices of indi-
vidual contractors and dealers ran
quite high, folks agreed on pro.
gram and decided that the city dc
its own paving of the streets. The
result is that Two Harbors has q
wonderful outlay of paved streets
and at very nominal cost 1t is al
UNDERSTANDING example in that line
Two Harbors in fact has done other
good turns for, its citizens. supplying
also electric light and water Mr.
Therrien. by the way collected water
rents in that village some 20 to =:
years ago when he was a resident oil
Two Harbors before he came to Pine
lcOunty. Likely he can tell us about
much of his experiences in Two Har
bors. This will help make the de
bate more interesting.
1t seems strange that Representa-
tive Therrien does not come out with
his own name, black on white. One
is led to believe that he has some
thing to cover up or why does he no
write? 1t would seem that mar
who has represented the county il
the legislature for four terms.-eigh
years should be taking Leadership
and should have something to writ,
about for the benefit of all the peopl,
in the county.
debate can be heard by a few
hundred people but an article in tn,
American and in which columns Mr.
Therrien has free access which ha
plainly been demonstrated through
the articles over his SOn-in-law's sig
nature-will be read by the thousand
instead of the hundreds. And so will
other newspapers in the county. Blu
being that he cannot be gotten out
black on white. where a person can
not get away from what he has writ
ten-I am glad to accept him at hi
own game where he naturally feel
that he has the advantage. havin.
spent four sessions in the Legislature
and taken part in discussions will
others.
Some of the issues that | will asl
Mr.. Therrien to publicly discuss ar
! why he was co-author of a bill to re
duce the occupational iron ore ia,
| from &c to 4go which if enacte,
would mean saving of millions o
dollars to the Steel Corporation an,
the iron ore companies.
Why he also was interested in tn
. reduction of the royalty iron ore "a
from Sc to 40 which would ais
mean saving of fortune for tn
mining companies and the mine own
ers.
Why did he vote for a reduction il