The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-09

tradition today.
 In the past it has produced such poles-apart personalities as Frank B. (Nervous Nellie) Kel- logg; the pontifical dentist, Hen- rik Shipstead, who defeated him for the senate; Justice Pierce Butler, greatest corporation law yer of the northwest now bitterly anti-New Deal; and the late Gov. Floyd Olson, dynamic farmer-la- Dor boss.
 And now . tense local and national political struggle is be- ing fought out against 8 back ground of bloody capitaI-labor strife. The roots of the two wars are closely intertwined.
 Floyd Olson's death, just as the presidential campaign was getting under way, wrought major changes on the national front. Prior to his death the republicans had kissed Minne- sota goodbye and put it in the Roosevelt lists.
 Mamma From Heaven
 Olson left no lieutenant big enough to fill his shoes. Also, his successors were rent by an undercover split over whether to support Roosevelt or the alleged candidate of the Farmer-Labor party, Bill Lemke.
 The democrats, too, were sapped by internal strife. At the Phila- delphia convention the conserva- tive wing, after eight years of steady pounding, had finally oust- ed Olson's close friend, Joseph Wolf, as national committeeman. But their victory turned to defeat when Jim Farley put J. F. D. Meighen, Wolf man, in charge of the Roosevelt campaign in Minnesota. They were in a bel ligerent mood.
 To the republicans this was mama from heaven. They saw chance to kill two birds with one stone: oust the leftish, pro-labor state government they hated, and simultaneously help strike down an equally hated national regime. So they went at it the length and breadth of the state.
 The Roosevelt supporters finally woke up to the serious danger, not only to the Min nesota election but to the na- tional campaign, of this splin- tering of the liberal vote in & vital state. In a surprise cOun- ter-maneuver, put over at the last minute allowed by the elec- tiOn laws, the democrats with drew their leading candidates and announced a coalition in support of the Farmer-La- bOriteS.
 At one stroke this solidified the Farmer-Labor front and left the anti-Wolf Democartic faction out on limb, with no choice other than to go along with the ma jority or bolt Roo1evelt outright. The latter is unlikely, and in any event would scarcely affect Roose- velt's chances.
 WHILE THESE DEVELOP. MENTS WE'RE BREAKING ON THE POLITICAL. FRONT EVENTS WE'RE MOVING JUST AS FAST IN THE LABOR WAR ZONE.
 Three Brothers
 Outside the state, the public think of MinneSota's labor wars as being fought between em- ployers and unionites. But here it is not so simple as that. There are wars within wars, and the names of rival champions are on every lip. Individually and col lectively they constitute one of the most interesting and colorful groups to be found in the coun- try. Personally they are as dra- matic as the grim drama they are enacting.
 The story of the hard bitten Minneapolis labor faction, whose truculent operations so often have smeared the front pages, is the story of three brothers Vincent, Miles and Grant Dunne.
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