The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-10-13
Final Drives Start as Election
Day Nears; Roosevelt
Backers Confident
OLSON ANSWERS CHARGES
Defends Tax Program; Berates
Metropolitan Press for
UnfairneSs

UefendS lax Program; BerateS
Metropolitan Press for
Unfairness
With less than a month remaining
for a vote harvest, county candidates
and party chairmen are making a
final canvass prior to election day,
November 8. &a
The most interesting turn in coun-
ty politics was the entrance this week
of Donald w. Gold of Redwood Falls
in the race for clerk of district court,
position held by w. G. Weldon for
"a years prior to his death last week.
Mrs. Weldon has been appointed to
fill his unexpired term and was con-
sidered possible candidate until she
stated this week that she will not en-
ter the race. Mr.. Gold announced
his candidacy following her decision
and it is understood that E. J. Fenske
and others are considering running.
Frank Baldwin filed last spring
and will be the only candidate listed
Ol VIC UdAAOIs OI<aIC low SpCSAICS
that late entrants may not be placed
on the ballot unless there is no can
didate for the office. Mr.. Gold and
any others who may enter will con-
sequently be "sticker" candidates.
Mr.. Gold was born in Sacred
Heart, Minnesota and moved to this
county in 1901 where he has since
lived except the time he spent in col
lege and during the war when he was
sent to France. While in Europe, he
studied law at the University of
London. He also attended the Wes-
leyan college, Middleton, Connect
cut.
. Watch. Reaction
While county politics remain in the
limelight, party leaders watch the re-
action to speeches made by Governor
Olson and Earle Brown, Republican
candidate, during recent visits here.
Both Republican and Farmer-Labor
leaders claim strong followings IN
the county while the Democrats ex-
pect to lead in the presidential race.
Governor Floyd B. Olson defended
his administration and warned again.
st return to Republican regime at
a public meeting at the armory
Thursday night, attended by more
than 1000 persons and later at an
overflow meeting in the courthouse
where several hundred more waited
during the armory program. Farm
er-Labor leaders were elated over the
crowd which was considerably larg-
err than the one which heard Earle
Brown eight days previous.
Answering charges made by Julius
Schmahl, state treasurer, at the earl
Ter meeting, the governor took up the
tax problem which he declared us
their own campaign issue"
Calling attention to the attitude OF
Minneapolis newspapers who have
been pro-Brown throughout the cam
paign, the governor mentioned a re-
port in recent Minneapolis
Journal which stated that the state
tax for next year is the highest in
the states history. "The mill rate
is the highest ever the Farmer
Labor leader admitted, "but a mill
tax this year, will yield, according to
estimates, about S1,6O0,O00 while
last year It brought $l,oo4,CO and Two
years ago, $2,0U0,OO0."
"This,,' he explained, sis due to
| the reduction in assessed valuations
and the increase in delinquent taxes. y
He stated that taxes for 1882 will
actually be $1,745,920 below 1881.
Urges Income Tax
He also attacked the policy OF
newspapers who, he said, "Have
right to say what they wish in the
editorial columns which are theirs,
but should be fair in the news
columns which belong to the read
| ers."
He also recommended passage OF
the proposed income tax, promising
| that if elected he will insist that it
replace other taxes and defending il
as a way to corral the tax dodgers
and relieve the burden on real estate
and personal property the owner
ship of which is Improbable.
Zone thought which I urge voters
to consider before voting the Repub.
lican ticket; who is going to own ane
control our state and national gov.
eminent after the election? THIS
thing l am most proud of during the
attacks on my administration is that
not one speaker dares say that / have
been controlled by privileg &c
groups" he declared.
| He laid tax increases at the door
of earlier administrations, to large
extent, citing the ditch-digging en-
terprises of quarter century ago
and adding that "they had full ap
prevail of your citizen Julius Sch
mahl." Falling of of gross earning.
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