Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-10-29
CHASE MAY AGAIN
TRY STATE RACE
Republican GubernatOrial Nominee In
Last Election Intimates That He
May Again Seek Office.
BY HENRY G.. TEIGAN

Ray P. Chase says he is going to be
candidate for governor again in
1892.
Well, it will have to be conceded
that Mr.. Chase is a man of much
courage. After having taken a trim
ming in 1880 at the hands of Floyd
b. Olson to the tune of $4,000 ma
jority for the latter, it surely re-
quires genuine courage to come back
and say, "I'll try it again"
There can be little doubt that the
former state auditor has more than
a hankering to become governor. 1t
seems that he had sort of made a
promise, to himself, at least, that he
was going to become chief executive
of Minnesota some day. In 1880 his
opportunity arrived so far as the Re-
publican nomination was concerned,
but public sentiment had so changed
that nomination on the G. o. p. tick
ct proved not to be equivalent to
election"
Got Terrific Drubbing.
Anyway, Mr.. Chase took a terrific
drubbing; the worst ever administered
to any G. o. P. gubernatorial candi-
date in the history of Minnesota. Oh
son carried all counties in the state
but five. Ottertail, Steele, Olmsted,
Cook and Rice were the only ones to
give Chase margin. And in two of
these, Steele and Olmsted. the lead
was 4 and 10 votes, respectively.
Farmer-Laborites of Minnesota have
no objection whatever to Mr.. Chase's
candidacy, though I believe it fair to
say that they would prefer having the
Republicans trot out their strongest
horse. Somehow, too, it should give
MIR. Olson greater satisfaction to beat
their best man than to have it said
that he couldn't help but win on &C
count Of the weakness of his opponent.
VOlkszeitung Disapproves.
Referring to Chase's announcement
the Daily Volkszeitung of st. Paul,
speaks discouragingly regarding the
Chase candidacy and says that "if the
Republican party in Minnesota is to
succeed it must select a new leader
ship and have a program of political
principles upon which it may stand"
This German language daily takes
fall out of former Governor Chris
tianson and the old Republican or
ganization. 1t says:
For years the State of Minnesota
has been under the domination of
the political influence of the Anti
Saloon League. Governor Christian
son, with holier than thou air, lis
tened to the wishes of this crowd and
all of his gang were out to help Mr..
Chase in the primary and general
election of 1880. We do not believe
that the citizens of Minnesota any
longer care to have its government
conducted by group who have made
such a mess of things throughout the
state and nation"
Boosts Governor Olson.
This newspaper then concludes with
the following good words for Cover
nor Floyd B. Olson:
Governor Olson has done we'll in
cleaning out some of the undesirable,
inefficient, appOintees of the former
regime and we believe the people have
such confidence in him that he will
be reelected by a big vote. He is
not afraid to say where he stands
is known to be liberal in his views
and has the intelligence to recognize
the wishes of his constituents
Progressive Wins in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin progressives won great
victory in the First congressional dis
trict of that state last week. Though