Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-08-02
WHAT Is BEHIND THE COVER.
NORS POPULARITY!
(Northern Minnesota Leader)

The large vote Governor Olson re-
ceived at the primaries was a big sur
prise to the opposition and perhaps
to his most staunch supporters. After
one OF the most vicious campaigns
ever directed against any public Of
fetal and his party and platform he
came through the primary with colors
flying and unfurled in the breezes
generated and emitted from thousands
of reactionary windbags.
The governor was attacked from ev-
cry angle; even to the point of villifi-
cation of his personal character by
the henchmen of the corrupt social
economic and political system that
has led countless thousands to a life
OF crime and thousands of the ma
tons young girls to a life of shame
and placed millions of working people
and their families where the hand of
charity has demoralized individual
initiative and ambition.
The people refused to listen to all
the villification heaped on a governor
who dared to invoke the laws and
power of government to the benefit
or those who do the nations work
who feed and clothe, the entire popu-
lation, but who live in the poorest
houses and wear the poorest clothes.
The Farmer-Labor platform was as
sailed from every angle. Column after
column OF newspaper space and page
after page was put out with a view to
soaring the people. But the people
refused to be stampeded. They used
their own heads, but not for hat
racks, as the reactionary press and
politicians seemed to think was the
case.
The people have learned by eX-
perience that for more than a half
century the Republican and Dem
ocratic parties have been buildine
platforms only to forget them before
the ink was dry. They have promised
to invoke the power of government for
the common people and then after
election used the powers of govern
ment against them. Under the guise
OF patriotism the blood of our most
virile' manhood has fortified the soil
OF foreign lands for the aggrandize-
ment of the wealthy and privileged
few. And in the name of law and
order, soldiers have been used tc
slaughter innocent women and chill
dren LUDLOW, Colorado) in order tc
protect the exploiters in their rob-
berry within the law Countless num-
bers of the leaders of the toiling elias
ses have been framed and executed
(Sacco and VanzettD while thousands
have been incarcerated in iails and
prisons, some still living witness tc
this nefarious practice BAILEY and
Mooney in the California prison after
the court of public opinion has alb
solved them after hearing evidence
which a corrupt system of jurispru-
dence refuses to hear.
Yes, the people have faith in the
integrity of Governor Floyd B. Olson
Time and again he has demonstrated
not by lip service but by actual deed
that his very being vibrates with feel
ing and understanding for the masses
and he has the ability and moral
courage to invoke the power of gov
eminent to promote their welfare.
Then too, the philosophy of the
governor is embodied in the Farmer
Labor party, which is an organization
not for Republicans or reactionaries
of any type, but with program de-
signed to make it impossible for
wealth to concentrate into the hands
of a few, while the masses are in
want. It's leaders have the prophetic
vision to see and understand that the
paying of tribute to financial barons
who own the machines of distribution
and finance is pagan in its conception
and practice, and contrary to the code
of true Christianity.
May the faith that the people are
showing Governor Floyd B. Olson
make him stronger in his convictions
and better able to serve the welfare
of men, women and children who de-
pend on honest toll for living.