The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-11-03

made fine record with long years of service,
John P. Couglin, brainy with unmpeach-
able integrity, Democrat.
WHICH? A CONSTRUCTIVE STATES
MAN, OR A POLITICAL OPPORTUNIST?
Tuesday of next week forty million
American citizens will exercise their right of
suffrage in selecting the chief executive of
the nation for four years, beginning March
4, 1888.
At this writing the leaders of both the
Republican and Democratic parties are
claiming victory.
The Literary Digest straw vote, which
has proven pretty fair index of public SEN
timent in past presidential elections, would
indicate that Mr.. Roosevelt has the edge on
President Hoover.
Prior to a few weeks ago Mr.. Hoover
had sat back and taken the misrepresenta-
tions heaped upon him by Mr.. Roosevelt and
his sponsors without protest The President
then donned his fighting clothes and opened
his speaking campaign at DesMoines, Iowa,
which brought back thousands of his former
supporters into the fold. In his Detroit and
Indianapolis speeches the Presidents Quaker
ire had aroused sufficiently to call his adver-
sary by name and in dignifed, but in no
uncertain manner show up the vacillating.
inaccurate and half truth utterances of MIR.
Roosevelt, Jim Reed, Norris and other NAL
contents who never have supported President
Hoover and his policies, although some of
these fellows have posed as members of the
Republican party.
An interesting fact in connection with
the Literary Digest straw vote is that but a
comparatively small number of women have
received the ballots. Of the women voting
majority of them have been for Mr.. Hoover.
The women of America, are dry, very dry;
there can't be any doubt about it. They adj
mired the humanitarian work of Mr.. Hoover
when he fed the women and children of Bel
GUM during the World war, and at it's close
brought sustenance to hundreds of thouS-
andS of women and children of the Father
land. His work sponsoring the Child Wei
fare movement and protecting the American
home, have strong appeal among the wo-
men folks of America. There isn't state
in the Union which appears to be doubtful
in which the women haven't enough votes to
swing into line for Mr.. Hoover in sufficient
numbers to insure his election.
The wringing wet speech of AL Smith
at Newark ten days ago was decidedly bene-
fetal to Mr.. Hoover. Many of the citizens
of America who are not bone dry, do not want
the open saloon to return. APs epithet of
"Bigot" and other ill-timed utterances were
damaging. The Democratic platform and AL
Smiths New Jersey address appears to pave
the way for the saloon if the Democrats
come into power next Tuesday. The Presi-
dent of the American Federation of Labor,
not political organization, has come out
Squarely for President Hoover's reelection
In speech delivered few days ago he called
attention to the fact that during the month
of September no less than $4,000 men had
returned to their old jobs, and that he was
convinced that the upward tide would con-
tinue if MIR. Hoover were reelected.
MIR. ROosevet's stand on the financial
question is causing worry in many circles
who fear, that, in the event of his elevation
to the Presidency the printing presses will be
started and worked overtime issuing paper
currency.
At the close of the World War Germany
and France attempted to rehabilitate them
selves in this manner with the result that the
monetary value of the German mark and
French frank was not worth the paper they
were printed upon.
close perusal of the public utterances
of both MIR. Hoover and Mr.. Roosevelt will
disclose that the former has a well defined
policy of conservative and constructive adj
vancement, while the latter vacillates to
suit the temper of the audience he is address,
| ing. He is well equipped with all the arts of
the demogogue.
Although Franklin Roosevelt is a fifth
cousin of the beloved late Teddy Roosevelt,
he is decidedly more than a fifth cousin dis
| tant in ability and constructive statesman
ship. Teddy did not watch which way the
political wind vane pointed before he arrived
at decision on any public proposition.
THE FORK OF THE ROAD