Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-06-05

in the counties that ! have covered
than it was before. That is to say
the organization that now exists in
Freedom, Waseca, Steele, Mower
and Dodge counties will be the
m ans of materially increasing
the vote that Floyd Olson and the
other Farmer-Labor candidates would
have received in these counties if a
county central campaign organization
had not been developed. Similar
work to that which have undertaken
for the Farmer-Labor association
should be done in all counties of
southern Minnesota. In fact it would
be of tremendous advantage to the
Farmer-Labor cause and the ticket
to have this sort of work undertaken
in every county of the state.
'There are now n men of prom
inence and influence in the five coun-
ties referred to who have pledged to
give at least one days time in their
respective precincts to line up the
voters there for Mr.. Olson and the
Farmer-Labor slate of candidates.
This means that the party will have
the equivalent of more than three
men devoting their time for an entire
month in the territory comprised in
the five counties. Moreover, these n
men are now subscribers for the
Farmer-Labor Leader, the official or
gan of the Farmer-Labor association,
and from now on will be kept in COM
plete touch with the state office and
the Farmer-Labor movement"
Five FL. Contests.
Farmer-Labor voters should bear
in mind that there are several con-
tests in their own primary and that
they should not be decoyed into the
Republican primary to settle contests
between office-seekers whose past rec
ords clearly indict them as unfaithful
servants of the common people.
Floyd Olson, Farmer-Labor en-
dorsee for governor, is opposed by
Carl E. Taylor of Palisade. OF course
Mr.. Olson will be nominated very
easily but while this is true those who
are interested in seeing Mr.. Olson win
the election next fall will find that
they can give his candidacy a fine
boost by calling for a Farmer-Labor
ballot and placing cross to the
right of Mr.. Olson's name at the pri-
mary on June 16.
The only other statewide contest
is that for United States Senator.
Knud Wefald, Farmer-Labor endorsee,
is being opposed by Ernest Lundeen
of Minneapolis. 1t seems as though
Mr.. Wefald has big edge in the race
but nevertheless it must be recognized
that Lundeen's candidacy affords an
opposition in the senate contest quite
different from that of Mr.. Taylor in
the race for governor.
1t is highly important that those
who are interested in Wefald's candi-
now until June 16. There should be
no chance taken on the outcome in
the senate contest. Mr.. Wefald's pop
ularity was demonstrated at the re-
cent Farmer-Labor convention when
he defeated Mr.. Lundeen by a vote Of
100 to q. This victory Mr.. Wefald
won despite the fact that he did not
seek the endorsement for senator and
was not in attendance at the conven-
ton.
In the third district congress race
F. H. Shoemaker of Red Wing, and
John T. Lyons of LeSueur Center, are
candidates. The district convention
approved of the candidacy of both
men and thus it will be up to the
Farmer-Labor voters to decide which
one they prefer as their candidate
in the general election.
In the fifth district race there are
two candidates. They are Joseph A.
Poirier, assistant county attorney, and
Ferdinand Johnson, who was a candi-
date for the office in 1928.
State Senator Erling Swenson is the
endorsee for congress in the tenth
district There is, however, another
candidate for the office. Mr.. Swenson
should receive the support Of all loyal
Farmer-Laborites in the tenth dis
trict.