Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-06-16
VOTERS WILL NOMINATE

Next Monday, June Goth, is the day
of the primary election-the peoples
convention-when candidates will be
nominated for the various political
offices, congressional, state and coun-
ty, to appear on the general election
ballots in the fall.
The big battle in the state centers
about who will be the nine nominees
for congress-at-large on each of the
three party ballots-R p u b i n.
Farmer-Labor, and Democrat.
The Republicans have quite bat
tie on for the nomination for gov
ernor between Earle Brown and
Franklin Ellsworth and so have the
Democrats between Arthur A. Van
Dyke, the convention endorsee and
John E. Regain "romp" candidate. A
third candidate in the person of James
Theodore Highland is also aspiring to
the nomination for governor on the
Democratic ticket. Pine county has
a candidate on the Democratic ticket
in the person of Viggo Justesen who
will undoubtedly get a splendid home
vote from those who choose the Demo-
cratic ticket at the primaries. He
was also a candidate for that office
in 1923. His opponent this year is
Mathew ~ kraus of Robbinsdale.
The purpose of the primary is
naturally for each political party to
try and pick the best candidates for
the various offices, so the Republic
cans are more concerned about their
candidates. the Farmer-LabOrites will
try to pick their best men and the
Democrats will do likewise with their
ballot. The primary is a check and
safeguard over the convention. If the
convention is boss-cOntrolled it is
we'll that we have the primary so
that other candidates can be induced
to file, men who would not have a
look-in in the boss-controlled con-
vention, and men perhaps more repre-
sentative of the people. The Repub-
lican party did not have any conven-
tiOns for ten years or more in Min
nesota, leaving it entirely to indi-
viduals to file for state and congress
sional offices without any party en-
the Democrats were having their en-
dorsement conventions regularly and
this year the Republicans did like
wise.
The convention endorsement of the
Farmer-LabOr party has been so sat
isfactory to the rank and file of the
party that little opposition has
in ri
tions. Floyd B. Olson, the unanimous
choice of the convention for re-elec-
tion to governor, has no opposition
and hence is the nominee of the party.
Henry Arens, endorsed by the con-
vention for reelection to the office OF
lieutenant governor, did not file for
that office but decided later to run
for congress. Two men-Benjam1n +.
Opsahl and X. K Solberg- filed for
lieutenant governor The only other
state office on which there is con-
test is that of railroad and warehouse
commissioner. Knud Wefald of Haw-
ley, former congressman. has the con-
Vention endorsement and will get the
big vote at the primary election. His
bling, who tried to get the convention
endorsement.
Congressional candidates were not
endorsed by the FarmerLabor con-
vention, presumably on account of
them running at large this year. and
IL was expected that there would be
many candidates. In all there are 80
candidates seeking nomination for
congress on the Farmer-Labor ticket,
80 on the Republican ticket and p
Democrats. Each party is to nomin-
ate nine, and the q candidates Will
then battle for the nine seats in con-
gress from Minnesota this fall.