The Redwood gazette., 1937-07-22
MINNESOTANs HAVE KNOWN FOR

out by the legislature, more liberal spend
ing and higher taxes are inevitable. Aside
from the whats it going to cost me"
aspects of the final result, perhaps the wild
est general interest has been in how state
politics will be affected.
The safest guess right now on the out
come is that Governor Benson has lost
strength through the prolonged squabble
which has kept the solons in session during
five and one-half of the first six and one-half
months of his term. The trend of legisla-
tive compromise suggestions early this
week would indicate that the governor
might have been better off to have accepted
the inevitable disappointments which faced
some of his pet ideas at the close of the
regular session and salvaged what he could
in the final hours rather than put the state
to the expense of a special session.
The feeling persists that his advisers
are considerably at fault in the matter. The
governor has made his share of the intoler-
ant statements, to the detriment of his cause
as we'll as his future candidacy. Interfer-
ence with committees, particularly confer
ence groups striving to work out the best
compromises possible, has provoked no little
criticism. In contrast to the man to whom
the governor owes his sudden rise to prom
inence, it is very apparent that he lacks the
finesse with which Governor Olson got much
posed to his avowed aims than to Benson's.
On the other hand no standard bearer
of sufficient stature to warrant his sugges-
tion as an opponent for the governor has
arisen from the conflict. The conservative
side has no more formidable candidate, gen.
orally known and trusted through the state,
than it had when Martin Nelson was picked
from the sidelines to make the first of his
unsuccessful tries in 1884.
Biggest threat to the governors second
term chances today is the man who well de-
served opportunity to make the race after
Olson's death in 1886, Hjalmer Petersen.
Supposedly sidetracked in his railroad and
warehouse commissionership after his brief
experience as governor, Petersen has held
the strategic position of being just outside
the legislative mixup without being entirely
out of the picture. It is safe to say that
Petersen is the man to watch as the next
campaign approaches.
SENATOR HENRIK SHIPSTEAD,
back in his place after long illness, is ac-
lively opposed to the presidents substitute
court reform bill. Excerpts from recent
statement by the senior Minnesota senator:
"When the original court bill was introduced
announced that l could not support it -.
the substitute bill is no better, if not worse,
than the former bill. :. However, if the
people of the United States want to give to
the executive and legislative branches con-
troll of supreme court decisions they can give
it to us by voting for constitutional amend
ment having that effect. We can then do
directly what is now proposed we do Indirect
ly and in violation of the spirit of the con-
stitution if not the letter. 1 do not believe
such powers should be vested in the con-
gress and in the president. However, if the
people want us to have this power we must
assume it."
HOWEVER GENEROUS YOU MAY
be with your dimes ordinarily, there is very
little justification for passing them to pan
handlers right now when men are in demand
in the harvest fields. Soliciting for stale
bread or unstable fruit at local grocery
store this week, a tramp complained that he
fields, adding that he would gladly take a
job at dollar day. When the grocer STEP
ped to the telephone to call farmer about
hiring the fellow, he beat hasty retreat.
ON A RECENT VISIT TO TEXAS.
Einar Hoidale, prominent Minnesota Demo-
crat, discovered that ranch he once owned
is now worth at least $15,OO0,OO0. Mr.. Hoi-
dale bought the property for $4,000 and as
early as 1Sll preQlcCeQ CnaC OIL WOulQ DE QlS-
covered there. It was after he had sub
divided the tract and sold for $50 to sos per
acre land which today is worth $1,000 to
$4,000. MIR. Hoida1e's weakness was in be-
ing too good salesman.
CONGRESSMAN PAUL KVALE HAS
drafted bill which would establish a ma
tional monument at Pipestone, to be admin
istered, protected and developed under the
direction of the department of the interior"
Redwood Falls has been pleading for mon
ument for sometime, Mr.. Kvale, one which
would be administered, protected and de-
veloped by the postmaster general.