Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-01-04

them. This includes even these whose
political identity and influence has
been so completely lost that they have
not garnered more than a dozen votes
for a Democratic candidate in their
home precincts since they can re-
member. until this year.
And while this is going On, the Re-
publicans have walked off with every
thing of Importance the Democrats
won in the last election.
The federal farm credit agencies,
located in this state and set up to
serve the agricultural Northwest, have
been turned over lock, stock and bar
rel, office keys and stenographers to
the leaders of the Republican party:
to the group that is responsible for
the revolt in the Northwest; to the
group that the voters of the Northwest
thought they were ousting from office
a year ago. Those who shaped the
Hoover policies and put them into
effect have been retained and ad-
vanced in power and their associates,
unable to be accommodated under the
previous administrations have been
brought in to be on hand for the kill.
This is something for the Farmer
Labor haters in the Democratic party
to think about: There has not been a
member of the Farmer-LabOr party
appointed to an important position of
any kind in Minnesota under this adj
ministration.
And in 10 agricultural credit agen-
cies, set up or changed, this year.
every key position, to which are at
tached probably 1000 lesser appOin-
tive positions, has gone to a Repub-
lican.
Who are they? Start with Walter
Newton, member of the newly formed
national home loan board, former Re-
publican Congressman from Minnesota,
Hoover secretary, while in Congress
opposed to every measure ever pro-
posed to benefit agriculture. Go on
to ]. N. Peyton, newly appointed men,
Der of the Federal Reserve board, Re-
publican, group banker himself and
friend of group banking; Frederick E.
Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis
Tribune, republican newspaper, Hoo
yer wOrshipper, opposed to every
Democratic candidate and every DEM
ocratic platform and policy for agri-
culture ever proposed, given an honor
airy position as a delegate to the Eu-
ropean wheat conference.
Democrats of Minnesota will not
recall ever meeting c. T. Jaffray, now
manager of the federal deposit liquid
alton board, Republican, director of
the First National Bank of Mime
First Securities Corporation, First
Bank Stock Corporation. in any cOun-
ellis over Democratic policies.
Nor any of these: Geo. Susens. new
ly appointed president of the PrOduc-
tiOn Credit Corporation; Hutzel Metz
ger of Fargo, president of the new Co
operative bank organization; Roy A.
Nelson, newly appointed president of
the Federal Land Bank of ST. Paul; F.
/ H. Klawon, head of the Intermediate
Credit Bank; D. j. Murphy, manager
Regional Agricultural Credit corpora
ton; John Schultz, assigned to RFC
in charge of Federal Deposit insurance
corporation, nor F.. H. Peck, admin
strator of the agricultural adjustment
division. Nor the hundreds of friends
with whom these men have surround
ed themselves in their official capa-
cities.
While the trouble makers of the
Democratic party have been so re-
ligiOusly keeping the bad Farmer
Labor boys from playing in our yard,
and through their obstructionist tao
tics have handicapped the progress
of those attempting to carry on in the
state, the Republican party has moved
into the house, locked the doors and
are preparing to make whoOpee. When
they're through with that they will
burn the house down, Just to prove
to the world and sundry that the Dem
ocrats are incompetent to hold public
office or be given any public trust.
| Meanwhile the Farmer-LabOr state
administration has saved number of
Democrats from starvation or becOm-
ing public charges by giving them
employment, this number being prob
ably in excess of the number recog-
nized in the state by the federal adj
ministration.
| There must be moral to this if
you are sufficiently intelligent to de-
termine what it is.