Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-10-27
West Speaks To Over
300 In Duluth, Asks
Reelection OF Olson
VOTERS SHOULD REPUDIAT E
OSCAR F. YoUNGDAHL FOR
INSULTS TO CoLoRED WOMEN


West Of Minneapolis and a member of
the Farmer-Labor state central COM
mittee addressed an audience of over
500 heard Tuesday night.
My friends of st. Louis county, we
are now engaged in another bitter
campaign in few days you will go
to the polls and determined who shall
be your next governor. I am ap-
pealing to you in behalf of that great
American Floyd b. Olson who for
four years has successfully guided
the destiny of our commonwealth,
and in this campaign as those Of past
you have the Old Guard Republicans
in charge of what is known as the
colored division, they have been in
structed to once again go before you
and ask you to uphold the principles
of Lincoln, it is gratifying to learn
that they wish the ideals of Lincoln
to be upheld for of late years it had
transgressed those ideals beyond rec
ignition; what started out to be the
party Of the common people and a
friend of the Negro became the tool
of moneyed barons and rabid Negro
haters.
The Republican leader, one Tai
mage Cary and I might add when not
engaged by the Republican gang finds
time to attend to his duties as dep
uty sheriff of Hennepin county, says
I quote "Those people who are inter-
ested in good government to back the
Republican candidates" and says that
the Republican party has a "record
to be proud of" it isn't necessary for
me to tell you that it is mistake.
You remember the insults of Hoover
and his gang. You remember how
even when in the crucial period of
his campaign, Negroes had to beg him
to say something in behalf of the
Negro. You remember the admins
trations of Harding and Coolidge and
the scandal that followed. You re-
member the segregation of the gold
star mothers and other insults heap
ed upon Negroes. And in Minnesota,
two years ago you recall that the Re-
publican candidate for governor was
a member of the XII KLUX KHAN
and made boast of it, and my
friends, you remember that prior to
March a, 1888, that this nation was
in the midst of the greatest nation
al panic ever witnessed by man.
Mr.. Cary seems to have forgotten,
when he further says, quote, that
Minnesota finds itself at the cross
roads of its history" and then he
raises the cry of "red" and to insure
the election of Mr.. Nelson as COVER
nor and the entire Republican ticket
by this does he Intentionally wish the
people to return those who controll-
ed the state prior to 1880, has he
forgotten that more graft and scan-
dial occurred prior to 1880 in Mime
sofa than at any other known time?
Has he forgotten the Diamond Motor
Corporation? The Fur Farm Racket?
And the Steel Trust? Maybe he has,
but you and have not. Yes, we will
be at the end of the road than at
the crossroads.
Oscar Youngdahl Negro Halter.
In asking you to give your. support
to the Republican candidates, Mr..
Cary and his cohorts forgot to men,
ton that the candidate for attorney
general on that ticket, one Mr.. Oscar
Youngdahl of Minneapolis and form
er fifth district commander of the
American Legion has known record
for disliking the Negro. Has Mr..
Cary forgotten the Crookston conven-
ton in 1880 when Johnny Baker Post
of the American Legion opposed him
and the result was that this post
caused his defeat as commander.
recall to your attention to an issue
of the Twin City Herald under date
iof August Is, 1880, which gives in
,il,aii ~ 70 r~4ehl Mr.
Youngdahl refused as fifth district
commander to interest himself when
te-o NEGRO women, Wesdames ]. L.
Moore and Mae Marshall who were
aiding them in Poppy Day sale were
refused service at downtown lunch
counter in Minneapolis, he passed the
buck when called upon to avenge the
insult of these two women. He re.
fered it to another branch of the or.
ganizat'or it din cthing; and al
the time Mr.. Youngdahl as comman.
der sat supinely by as justice to these
colored Legion workers was denied
NY friends, the attorney-general:
office is in important one, if Young
dahl was weak in that case what
would he do if intrusted with the
legal affairs Of whole state? Have
his colored workers explain this i
vou rlaase homo that Won will re-