The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-07-23
In Political Arena
FARMER-LABOR
BY A. 1. Harris

A hint of Republican strategy in
the coming campaign was forecast
last week in an announcement that
official representatives of twelve
large labor unions" were conduct
ing negotiations with Republican
representatives with the idea of
holding the Farmer-Labor party.
OF course, that claim is too ri
diculous for words. A survey dis
closed that not a single labor IN
ion official-or nofficial-repre-
sentatives to discuss anything with
the Republicans, and the whole
thing is merely fake in foolish
and childish effort to get labor I'M
ion votes for the Republicans.
A certain William Dinon, a loco
motive engineer and pawn of the
railroad interests, is the labor
front, and the brains of the thing
is a certain st. Paul railroad offic-
ial. Labor will answer this fake
with organization of a statewide
labor union committee to conduct
an active and intensive campaign
for the Farmer-Labor candidates.
Attorney General Harry III. Pc
terson, speaking before mass
meeting of relief clients on the
Capitol steps last Saturday, de-
clared that while other states have
liberal relief rules, Minnesota, be-
cause of decisions of the State SUI
preme Court, must treat all relief
clients as paupers. He character
lied the language of an early de-
cision in which the court declared
that in the midst of such a great
public calamity, a person who is
within one degree of being a pau
per, and in imminent danger Of
becoming such, may, for the pur-
pose of preventing him from be-
coming such, be given aid by the
state or municipality without VIC
lating the Constitution" as narrow
and heartless. At the same time he
attacked the recent legislature for
its pinch-penny policy in refusing
aid to needy citizens.
r. w. Hitchcock, Republican
master propaganda, gets consii-
cradle comfort out of the fact that
the Republican primary vote in
some counties was greater than the
Farmer-Labor vote, and that the
total vote received by Martin Mel
son, who had no opposition, was
greater than that received by FL
mer Benson, who was opposed by
the redoubtable Magnus Johnson,
one of the most efficient vote gath
erers in the state.
Let Mr.. Hitchcock and the men
who pay him his salary get as
much enjoyment out of the primar-
les as they may. However, without
wanting to spoil their pleasure, we
must remind them that it is the
votes in the final that elects. In
1882, the Republican candidate
what was his name?-oh, yes, Earle
Erown-backed by the mighty mill
lions of Hoover's machine, ran al
most 100000 ahead Of Olson in the
primary-but what q shellacking
he took in the final!
Incidentally, the Farmer-Labor
party gained on a percentage basis
over looZ, Willie UTe ISepuDllCdn
vote was falling off as against
that year. We have to go back to
1882 for a fair basis Of comparison,
since in 1884, 100000 Republicans
entered the Democratic ranks In
an effort to nominate Schilplin as
a fusion candidate against Olson.
In the Twin Cities last week, A,
Hed-Larson, member of the city
council of Stockholm, Sweden,
spoke rather alarmingly of war
dangers in Europe.
Something is apt to happen al
most any time" Mr.. Hed-Larson
said, that will set all terror loose
Fascism has served to intensity ma
tionalistic hatreds and suspicious
Every nation fears and distrusts
her neighbors.
There is only one way, in my
opinion, that war can be averted-
and that is through the leftest pol