Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-08-30
FL. CAMPAIGN
IS UNDER WAY
Senator Emil L. Regnier is
Again Chosen as Cam
paign Manager.
Executive Committee From
Throughout the State is
Selected to Aid.
BY HENRY G. TEIGAN

The Farmer-Labor campaign is now
under way. The state central COM
mittee of the Farmer-Labor party,
named by the several nominees for
state and congressional offices, met
last week and elected a manager and
an executive committee to direct the
campaign.
Senator Emil L. Regnier of Mar
shall, who so ably conducted the cam
paign two years ago. was again chosen
manager. To aid him in the work
the state central committee selected
an executive committee of men and
women fully able to aid in the work
of carrying on a campaign.
Members of Executive Committee.
The members of the committee are
as follows: Herman Aufderhelde,
chairman, New Ulm; Irene Welby, st.
Paul; Emil L. Regnier, Marshall; Ed
Prochaska, Pine City; Fay Child, Rus
sci: John Woebke, New Ulm; Irene
Ingeman, st. Paul; Phil Scherer, Win
throp; Julius j. Rieter. Rochester; M.
w. Fox, Kenyon; Edwin l. Hudson,
Minneapolis; John Hess, st. Cloud;
Howard Frederickson, Tyler; Oscar
Widstrand, Hibbing.
While officially the campaign has
just gotten under way, the fact is,
however, that the campaign has been
carried on ever since the primary
campaign was over. Governor Floyd
B. Olson, U. S. Senator Henrik Ship
stead, and other nominees of the
party for state and congressional Of
fees, have been speaking to large and
attentive audiences for several weeks
past. Everywhere these candidates
have been received most favorably
and the indications are that neither
fusion" nor confusion" will operate
to make defeat of the FarmerLabor
ticket possible.
Nevertheless, no stone will be left
unturned to make victory a certainty.
Overconfidence is the thing that does
damage on too many occasions. More
over, it is quite obvious that we are
facing a vicious campaign by both
old-party wings of the big Biz" or
ganization.
Olson Arraigns Citizens Alliance.
In a radio address Monday evening
Governor Olson called attention to the
vicious campaign, as he termed 1t,
which the Farmer-Labor candidates
were facing this year. He warned the
workers everywhere to be on their
guard against the poison propaganda
of the enemy newspapers and of the
political henchmen of big business.
In his address the Governor as
sailed the Citizens Alliance of Min
neapolis as public enemy No. l in
this state. He showed how that the
citizens alliance is an anti-labOr
group and is a part of national Or
ganization that Isl vilifying and de-
flaming President Roosevelt and the
New Deal. There is, of course, no
question about the correctness of the
Governors statement. 1t is doubtful
whether this unholy aggregation of
big business groups has been so ably
and forcefully arraigned and was done
by the Minnesota chief executive last
Monday evening.
War on GundersOn.
Reverting again to the work of the
Farmer-Labor state central commit
tee, the meeting last week was de-
voted in large measure to Organiza-
tion, though some time was taken up
in an attempt to force out Russell o.
Gunderson, nominee for clerk of the
supreme court, on the ground that he
was not a member of the Farmer
Labor Association.
There is no doubt that the Farmer
Labor Association has a perfect right
to place an Independent nominee in
the race for this office, but there is
considerable question as to the pro-
priety of the state central committee
of the Farmer-Labor party having
anything to do with the matter. Mr..
Gunderson, however, felt that he is
entitled to the position on the ballot
in view of the fact that he defeated
his opponent, Laura E Naplin, for
the nomination by a fairly substan-
tial majority.
Should an independent nominee be
placed in the field by petition it will
probably be Mrs. Marion LeSueur of
Minneapolis who appears to have the
unanimous support of the State
WOmen's Farmer-Labor Association.
Mrs. LeSueur is a woman of more
than ordinary ability, and is an able