The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-05-26
STRONG MAN; SHOULD BE RETAINED

The last session of the Minnesota legis-
lature made sorry mess of reapportioning
the Congressional districts of the state, re-
ducing the number from 10 to nine. The
bill finally passed was vetoed by Gov. Olson,
the result being that all Congressman must
be elected at large.
Of the 80 candidates filed by repre-
sentatives of the Republican, Democratic
and Farmer-Labor parties to be voted on at
the June primaries, 80 of them are Republi-
cans.
When MIR. Average Voter enters the
booth Primary day to select nine nominees
of his party he will be up against pretty
serious proposition. A number of the can
didates are worthy and able; others filed be-
cause they had $50.
August H. Anderson, sitting member
from the Old Third, is candidate for re-elec-
ton. Under the old district lines MIR. And
reson would be reelected without serious
opposition He has served his district with
intelligence and fidelity. Because of the
length of service he has gained some very
fine committee assignments. The following
reference to Mr. Anderson made by the
editor of the Democratic Hennepin County
Review, Hopkins, will be of interest:
Congressman August II. Andersen of the
old district and candidate in the primary,
is of these. regular republican, Mr..
Andersen seldom eye to-eye with the
editor of this newspaper and his Democratic
beliefs. Nor has Mr.. Andersen ever been the
representative of the Hopkns-or rural Hen
nepin district 1t is hoped therefore that
these remarks in his favor will not be looked
upon the campaign press-agentry of
political fence builder, but rather the
honest convictions of an outside, impartial
observer.
Mr. Andersen is a member of the Commit
tee on Agriculture in the lower house. On that
committee there "a members. OF those
"a Mr. Andersen is Number Five man. Min
nesota, everyone knows, is primarily an
agricultural state. Whether neighbors
with the aristocrats in Minneapolis and St.
Paul. tis the soil for living in the
farthest corner of the commonwealth his
first last and most direct concern, if he is
Minnesotan, is the welfare of agriculture
in Minnesota
Under the committee system and the SEN
iority rule which prevail in Congress- Mr..
Andersen, if he is reelected, and lives, very
soon will become the chairman of the all
powerful Committee on Agriculture. In that
position he will constitute the greatest single
force in Congress for the future welfare of
the farmer and the agricultural industry.
One reason why the northwest states have
Jared badly by way of favorable legislation in
the past has been their short-sighted policy
of retiring their representatives in Congress
just they have within their grasps COM
mttee assignments of real power. One
son why the so-called industrial east
ually gets what it wants in the way of federal
legislation is because the eastern states,
when they place a good in Congress-
leave him there long enough to climb the
ladder, under the seniority system, to
mittee posts which give him the power to
get what his constituency wants and needs.
Republicans of Minnesota, it seems to this
newspaper, have before them a solemn duty
to nominate the Red Wing man when they
go to the primary next month. If Mr.. And
possessed none of a hundred other
qualities which have made him a bang-up
Congressman, his opportunity to serve the
state and the nation by serving its agricul-
ture, in the next few years, would be reason
enough why he should be nominated and
elected by overwhelming majority Should
he be eliminated simply because his
does not hold glamorous ring do those
of some of his Republican opponents then
Minnesota will lose heavily by way of her
representation at Washington in the next
few years.