Evening star., 1936-10-18
REED DENOUNCES
MINNESOTA DEAL
DisgruntIed Democrats Plan
Sticker Campaign for
Governor.
BY JERRY VESSELS,

81. PAUL, MIMI, OcUODer l1.-IHe
snarling continues in Minnesota over
the now nationally famous Democrat
Farmer Labor fusion.
Several prominent Democrats have
bolted the party and commenced ac-
tive campaigning for the Republican
State ticket, while reports persist that
other disgruntled Democrats will file
q sticker candidate for Governor in
q bold attempt to circumvent the
effect Of the extraordinary alliance.
The sticker candidate, so the gossip
states, will be Mike F. Murray, St.
Cloud attorney and former State COM
mander of the American Legion.
President Roosevelt's visit, which
was Unexpectedly scheduled after the
loud protest over the withdrawal of
Democratic candidates for the United
States Senate and Governor, appar-
emily had a soothing effect and the
grumbling has not been quite SO pro-
nounced, although the Republican
campaign managers are making great
capital Of support received from de-
serting Democrats.
Reed Agitates Against Deal.
The deal was kept before the public
this week with the help of James A.
Reed, former United States Senator
from Missouri, who visited the State
and made an evening speech in Min
neapolis. Said Senator Reed in an
interview: II have been in politics
SO years; have seen many a double
crossing put over, but this is the
coarsest piece Of business have ever
seem"
Senator Reed was particularly Bit
ter in his reference to President
Roosevelt, who has said that the coal
ition was necessary to prevent Demo-
Gratis and Farmer-Laborites from
working at cross-purpose Said Sem
ator Reed: Il am a Democrat; I
shall remain Democrat. But Roose-
welt has walked out. He is being
all things to all men. He is obsessed
with the idea that he is above any
political party; that he has the right
to demand the support of Democrats
and make combinations at the same
time with dangerous elements-the
Communists. Socialists and Bolshe-
vists-any kind of group with any
kind of opinion. He wants to retain
the Democrat vote in one camp and
go over to the radical camps him
self"
Watson Joins In Drive.
The G. o. P. campaigners, both for
the State and national ticket, have
been hammering away about this ANY
kind Of group with any kind of
opinion" angle, and while Senator
Reed was barking about it, another
former Senator, James z. Watson,
Indiana, was saying in a Minnesota
speech that America will believe
President Roosevelt's statement he
does not want red support only when
Roosevelt gets rid of Rexford Tug
well and his Socialistic influence"
Meanwhile, the Republican stand
ard bearers were blending a bid for
Democrat support with a blast at
red" tendencies of the Farmer
Labor party. Representative Theo-
dore Christianson, Republican sena-
torial candidate said, 'it is easy for
Minnesota Democrats to vote the Re-
publican ticket this year because it
is the only party in the State which
represents the American principles of
Thomas Jefferson and is a fortress
against the onslaughts Of the Com
munistic leadership of the Farmer
Labor party"
The Farmer-Labor chieftains at
tackled the Republicans for injecting
the red" issue into the campaign
along with harsh words about reac-
tionary evils in government before
the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson "re-
formed" it through his third-party
organization.
Red Charges Ridiculed.
Senator Elmer Benson, Farmer-Ia.
Dor candidate for Governor, has beer
particularly emphatic in ridiculing Re.
publican charges about CommunistiC
connections. In one speech Benson
said: THE people know that the cry ot
communism has been hurled against
anybody and everybody who believe.
In and advocates liberal and progressive
government. 1t has been the old stocl
in trade of the reactionaries for years
When the Republican party in Mime.
sofa descends to this childish, idiotit
method of campaigning, they serve no.
tice to the entire world that they have
nothing to offer but soup kitchens
bread lines and bedtime fairy stories.''
Representative Christianson, harp
ing on the red issue, declared that i
was injected into the campaign by tn,
Farmer-Laborites themselves wher
they accepted the Endorsement of tn,
Communist party, and hoped on Rep
resentative Ernest Lundeen, Farmer
Labor senatorial candidate. Christian
son said:
my opponent injected the red issu,
several months ago when he addressed
a Communist audience in New Yorl
and called them comrades He mad
it an issue when he joined with q
other radicals, after trip to Russia, il
a report in which the setting up o
a Communistic order in Russia is callet
labor's most gigantic and most prom
ising undertaking and that it will be
come an irresistible example to tn,
workers the world over"
DEMOCRAT LEADER AIDS