Evening star., 1934-03-11
DEMOCRAT PLANS
|N19AM|NNESOTA
|. ELECTIONS PUZZLE
Provoke Great Conjecture
Both Within and With
out Party Ranks.
BY JERRY VESSELS.
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ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 10.-What
the Democrats do at the 1884 State
elections in Minnesota is provoking
great conjecture, both. within and
without party ranks
Further indications that the Demo-
Gratis plan to go it alone and sincerely
try for State Offices, Congress and
the United States Senate came this
week In a new movement to back Mrs.
Annie Dickie Olesen for the governor
ship.
Mrs. Olesen, named by President
Roosevelt as State director Of the Ma
tional Emergency Council, has had no
political aspirations since making a
poor race for the United States Sen
ate back in 1922.
Party Split in 1892.
Minnesota Democrats failed to CAPT.
talize on the Roosevelt landslide in
1882 because Of a split that cut the
ranks wide open. A rump faction car
ried its battle to the polls and at the
primaries, succeeding in installing its
candidates on the State ticket. But
the regulars got their delegates seated
at the national convention in Chicago
and went on down the line to sup
port the Roosevelt candidacy.
The jumpers, instructed to back Al
Smith for the presidency, came back
home to fight it out alone on the
State and congressional tickets. The
regulars, rather than support the
jumpers, apparently voted with the
Farmer-Laborites in exchange for
strong aid from that source to help
Roosevelt carry Minnesota.
So the Farmer-Laborites strength
ened their grip on the State govern
ment and sent five men to Congress,
while the regular Democrats assured
themselves of generous portions Of ma
tional patronage.
Some recent pointed outbursts from
Farmer-Labor quarters have stung the
Democrats. Dissatisfaction over farm
aid projects, expressed from the
Farmers Holiday Association ranks,
closely allied with the Farmer-Labor
movement, has carried with it sharp
personal attacks on Secretary OF Agri-
CUILUIe WALLACE.
Alliance Status Unknown.
So, with the campaign still in its
infancy, there is some question as to
whether the 1882 Farmer-Labor-Dem-
ocratic alliance will stick. Bumpers
and regulars alike have been buZZing
about party candidates. for State and
national Offices, and four are listed
as potential bidders for the governor
ship.
These include Al Pfaender, State
Representative, who was given pow
erful committee Craftsmanship by the
Farmer-Labor majority in the last
State Legislature, only to split openly
later with the administration over
State finances. Others are John E.
Regan, former State Representative,
rump candidate for Governor two
years ago, who ran poor third; Fred
Schilplin, st. Cloud Daily newspaper
publisher, and Mrs. Olesen.
At least two leading Democrats ap-
parently will seek the Democratic
nomination for the United States
| Senate to oppose Senator Henrik Ship
stead, who seems assured of the Farm
er-Labor nomination. They are
| Representative Einor Hoidale and
Lewis Lohman, ST. Paul attorney and
! former State commander Of the
American Legion.
Hoidale stepped into State political
prominence back in 1890 when he al
most nosed out Senator Thomas D.
Schall for reelection. He was the
only Democrat to survive the free
for-aI race for Congress in 1882 when
all candidates ran on at-large basis.
with the Farmer-Laborites seizing five
seats and the Republicans having their
State strength in Congress reduced
from nine to three.