The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-03-03
COUNTY DEMOCRATS
FAVOR ROOSEVELT;
CRITICISE HOOVER
FIay Republican Party for Pros
perity Claims in Re-
solutions
ELECT STATE DELEGATES
Blame Stock Market Imitation,
Two Billion Deficit on
Party in Power

Franklin d. Roosevelt, governor OF
New York, will be highly satisfacts "
as Democratic nominee for president
it was decided Saturday at the Red
wood County Democratic convention
held in the commissioners room in
the court house.
President Hoover and the Republic
can party were strenuously attacked
in resolutions read and approved at
the session. About two dozen party
followers attended the meeting.
Delegates who were elected to at
tend the state convention at the st.
Paul Auditorium March 9 are j. r.
Keefe, Rud Stensvad, James A. Baik-
lie, all of Redwood Falls, Mrs. John
Posi-, Sanborn; George Kleugel, LAM
berton; Frank Schieffert, Morgan and
William M. Smith, Redwood Fails,
delegate at large. The alternates
are: C. A. Lauterbach, Mrs. James
A. Baikie, both of Redwood Falls. Ut
to Franta, Wabasso; Thomas Mast
erson, Walnut Grove; j. P. Gafney,
North Redwood and Mike Lauter-
bach, Redwood Falls.
Keefe on Committee
J. R. Keefe was reelected as
member of the State Central Commit
tee, William M. Smith was elected
chairman, Rud Stensvad, vice chair
man, Mrs. John Posi-, vice chair
woman, C. A. Lauterbach, secretary,
and James A. Baikie, treasurer.
The following resolutions were ap-
proved:
We, the Democrats of Redwood
County, in convention assembled
here reaffirm our allegiance and loyal
ty to the party of Jefferson, Jackson
and Wilson and the principles they
stood and fought for. We most just
ly and severely express our disap-
proval and condemnation of the dis
graceful manner in which the Re-
publican Party for the past II years
and now in power, with complete
control of both the House and Senate,
has conducted the affairs of the ma
ton.
Be 1t Resolved, that we hereby con-
denim the shameful acts of the Fall
Daugherty Teapot Dome scandal;
the Forbes famous Veterans Bureau
debacle, by stealing the funds of the
soldier boys who fought and died that
this nation might live; the cold
blooded veto by President Coolidge OF
the McNary-Haugen Bill with the de-
benture feature, which would have
assured the farmer of a reasonable
return for his product and labor.
Flay Wickersham
And Be 1t Resolved, that we furth-
er condemn the present incumbent OF
the White House and the cabinet he
inherited from the previous admin
istration combined with the creation
of countless bureaus and investigat-
ing committees, namely-The notori-
Gus Wickersham Committee, The
Navy Investigating Committee, The
Kellogg Peace Commission and many
others through which millions of the
taxpayers money were wasted with
no beneficial results to the American
people;
Be 1t Further Resolved, that we
particularly condemn the action OF
President Hoover and his administra-
ton for saddling the Hawley-Smoot
Tariff Act upon the American farm
er and the people of the northwest;
the veto of the Veterans Adjusted
Compensation Bill; the creation of
the damnable Federal Farm Board
and the appointment of men of the
type of Alexander Legge, president
of the international Harvester Co.,
chairman, under the sham of giving
relief to the American farmer, with
wheat selling as low as 46 cents per
bushel, oats at Is cents and rye at
% cents, while grain binders cost the
farmer $3.50.
And Be 1t Further Resolved, that
we condemn the fictitious claim of
prosperity of the Hoover administers
ton during all these years, permit
ting and encouraging the working
people of our land to invest their hard
earned savings in stocks and bonds
at fabulously fictitious values that
today have dwindled to nothing,
coming upon the American people
like flood, and without word of
warning or caution to the innocent
investor who placed full confidence
in the men at the head of our gov
eminent. Following this wild orgy
of ruthless administration we have
and are now witnessing the greatest
calamity in farming, business, fami-
Iy life, unemployment of the millions,
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