Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-04-09
REPUBLICANS
DRAFT PLANS
County Convention Held at Sandstone
Saturday ReyampS Program
for Campaign.

The Republican county convention
was held in the l. o. o. F. hall in
Sandstone Saturday and among other
transactions the following program
was laid out and adopted:
We, the representatives of the Re-
publican party in the county of Pine,
in convention assembled, renew our
pledge to the principles and tradi-
tions of that great party and dedicate
| it anew to the service of our country
and people.
We pledge ourselves to work in uni
| ty, one with the other, for the best
interests of the people as whole,
and with the end in view of return
to the common sense principles Of
thrift and economy in the operation
of state and national government.
We urge a change in the taxation
system of the state so as to relieve
real estate from the burdens it now
bears, and the cost of government be
based more upon the ability to pay.
One of the main solutions of the
agricultural problem is the formation
of more farmers cooperative market
ing agencies, and we heartily approve
and urge that steps be taken to en-
courage the construction of such
agencies and facilities for their use
and benefit.
We recognize the necessity for car
rying out such relief measures as are
necessary to the well-being of our
people, but we urge the administra-
ton of all relief by the state and
local units of government as being
more practical and economical.
We denounce the attempted diver
| sion of game and fish funds to other
purposes and urge that in the in
| terests of conservation there be a
change in governmental control in
Minnesota and the adoption and ad-
ministration of sound policies of con-
servation free from all political in
| reference and direction.
For CONSUMPTION i'm War Time.
We affirm the American policy of
thoughtful care and liberal treatment
for the ex-service man and his fam
| lily; we urge that in time of war, all
wealth and industry, as we'll as all
men, should be subject to conscrip-
ton, particularly industry pertaining
to the manufacture of implements of
war, thus taking the profit out of and
virtually eliminating war; and we
further commit ourselves to COM
plete and faithful discharge of the
| nations deep and continuing obliga-
ton to the disabled veteran.
We endorse the old age pension law
enacted by the special session of the
| legislature as sound beginning of a
liberal statewide old age pension
system. Upon this sound base extern
lions and corrections of the system
can be made from time to time as ex-
perience shows advisable.
We advocate a return to the con-
stitutiOnal form of government, on
which this country was founded; we
advocate a return to the old custom
of the right of Congress and other
representative law-making bodies, to
legislate without dictatorship.
We re-affrm, as one of the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, a
tariff for protection of American agri-
culture and industry, rather than for
revenue only.
We believe in a more adequate tax
on chain stores and other mOnOpOlies
as protection to the individual and
that all monopolistic tendencies
should be controlled.
We advocate a system of organiza-
ton of law enforcement officers and
| agencies, not subject to political dom
nation; that lawbreakers may be
more quickly and surely apprehended.
Organized society is at war with or
ganized crime and steps must be taken
by organized society to route this in
vading criminal army.