The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-05-19
ATRoCIoUs REPRESENTATION
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.

St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
After the House of Representatives was finished
with the economy BILL and the last self-seeking poll
tician had had his word, the savings in the bill
had been cut from 200 million dollars approximately
80 million dollars. In this junking of economy the
part played by the Minnesota delegation, with two
exceptions, is a disgrace to the state
Mr. Clague of the Second district alone among
the ten has perfectly clear record. It is inter-
esng fact that Mr.. Clague is not up for reelection
Mr. Andersen of the Third district has almost good
performance to which to point as Mr.. Clague eav-
ing the ranks of economy major provisions of hte
bill only to vote against the army-navy merger.
. For the rest, the delegation except at brief in
tervals, could not find sufficient courage to place
national welfare above the playing of politics. And
the people of St. Paul will doubt be interested
to know that among all the ten congressman from
this state none has worse record this issue than
their own Representative Mas The only member
of the delegation who equals Mr.. Mas in going
against every important economy provision brought
record VOTE is Mr.. Nolan, of Minneapolis These
two confressmen have achieved the unbeatable &C
complishment of being 100 percent wrong on econ
omy so far as the major controversial items in the
bill concerned.
in the announcement of his candidacy for re-elec-
ton Saturday, that he stands for drastic govern
mental retrenchment by restricting governmental
policy to the strict business of government is to be
taken as merely one of those empty plattudes of in
sincere politics.
Mr.. Mas and the other members of the dele
cation have perfect right to exercise their indie
pendent judgment all matters coming before them
and indeed intelligent and honest individual think
ing would be all to their credit But it is not this
kind of independence that has been motvating
Representative Mas this and many other is
sues. His friends who assisted in his election to
Congress originally and who have had every reason
to wish for him long and successful public career
have been dismayed by the personal vanity and pet.
tiness with whch he has carried on his increasing
feud against the leadership of the party to which he
processes allegiance. This ridiculous and vain
glorious vendetta has been carried by Mr.. Mas
to the point where he responds mechanically and
unthinkingy in opposition to everything brought for
fha UUOrct ~,
hack in giving support.
Mr.. Mas career in Washington has been
growing disappointment He was elected in 1925
chiefly because he had the courage to make a clean
and unafraid avowa against prohibition in contrast
to the straddng typical then and of political
treatment of this issue. AS representative of St.
Paul he did excellent work in exposure of the evil
lease of the Commercial Postal station. A better
balanced personality would have gone from this
point to brilliant service, but Mr. Mas choice was
to involve himself in footless campaign of malice
and exaggeration over question of patronage and
to undertake in his disappointment campaign of
instruction which finally brought him his present
condition of poweress isolation at Washington The
upshot is that he has destroyed his usefulness his
district and latterly has confined himself to occas-
ional spectacular outbursts of malice and to blind
voting against almost anything the Administration
wants.
Mr.. Mas may take crtdit for his share in the
slaughtering Of Federal economy. And in so doing
he is giving st. Paul atrocious representation