The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-10-06

membership runs over cOU, ulaoe
|up Of South st. Paul boosters. Most
members object to the Hook En-
|cows being made torch club to
boost for Stassen and his Republi-
|can slate. There's talk that the
activities Of the packing-house
|clique-made up Of straw bosses,
|timekeepers and shipping clerks
working for Swift, Armour or the
|Stockyards company has just
|about split up the clubs harmony.
Petitions are being drafted, so
we've been told, to have special
election Of officers or at least to
lhave the present political press
|agenting in behalf Of Stassen and
the Republican gang halted.
The horse brigade and drum
corps Of the club, 1t seems has been
beating the drum for Stassen be-
cause he's q hometown boy and
perhaps because the packers want
the drum beat.
Campaigns On Birthday
Governor Benson was forty
three years old Thursday of last
week, but the occasion was just an
other day in Ibis campaign tour in
southern Minnesota. The governor
addressed several thousand people
in both st. James and Westbrook.
He charged that "the trusts secret
lily control the Republican party in
Minnesota, fact proved by fed
eral monopolies investigation"
Republican Candidate
Replies" With Personal Abuse
Judging from recent speeches
made by the Republican candidate
for governor, the G. o. P. camp is
running out Of ideas for its cam
lpaign.
Four facts stand cut clearly
about Harold Stassen's allie e ed
reply" to Governor Benson's key
note address.
First, Stassen had no reply to
the detailed list Of concrete Farm
ler-Labcr accomplishments which
the governor recited in his Apple
ton keynote.
Second, Stassen did not even at
tempt to defend the record of the
Republican conservatives in the
last Senate, who blocked the at
tempts of the Farmer-Labor to en-
act program of liberal legislation,
including a revised state tax sys-
tenn which would have brought the
budget into balance by raising suf-
ficient revenue and at the same
time shifting the means of raising
it on to the shoulders of persons
and larger corporations most able
to pay it
In short, by his reply to the Gov
errors keynote Stassen admitted
the substance of the accomplish
ments Of the present administra-
ton, and he admitted that the cen
duct of the Republicans in the last
is indefensible. He
couldn't attack the one; he wouldn't
defend the other.
A third feature of Stassen's
reply" was his continued attempt
to manufacture issues where there
e~AO AOHC % Aoi do luc SONcIuOr -
concerned.
Thus Stassen cried out that the
governor hadn't said anything about
economy, and hadn't said anything
about civil service. But the simple
truth is that the governor spoke
definitely and concretely upon the
subject of economy. and he has al
ready spoken definitely and con-
cretely and with complete salts
faction to all the progressives upon
the subject of civil service.
Finally, even Stassen's friends
were distressed over the sneering
manner in which their candidate
filled his speech with personal
abuse and villification, dressed up
on terms of hysterica1 school boy
rhetoric.
In short, Harold Stassen is new
definitely in the class Of candidates
whom President Roosevelt has
accurately described as men "who
have run out CT IDEAS"
His campaign of hate, disruption,
misunderstanding, and rson
slime-tossing has collapsed. In
spite of his reply" to the Appleton
address. this state still rings with
the clear notes heard on that re-
cent night in Appleton, when Gov