Askov American., 1938-09-15
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Editor Askov American:

GOAtOA <AShOS <AilCAASoI.
Some days ago received "free"
copy of the Minnesota Leader. I
have been informed that this paper
is published by the Mexican Gen.
erals" and edited by one A. 1. Har-
ris and financed through funds re-
Questioned from the state job holders.
The first column on the front page
was rather interesting reading. 1t
warns the people not to be hood
winked by this rather young man,
Stassen, who talks very smoothly and
convincingly, but who in reality is
ravening wolf that is bent on de-
vouring every voter who comes with
in his reach.
| gather that this young man is
nearly as bad and dangerous as
| into the hornets nest on Capitol Hill
This copy of the Leader" also
,, laudS Governor Benson very highly
He seems to be endowed with angel
ical powers, judging from the con-
text in the Leader" His desires
are to down the packers and the
steelmen, the millionaires and the in
ternational bankers, who so long have
been living on the fat of the workers
and the farmers; tax them out of
everything and divide the proceeds
among the office holders, the work
ing men and the farmers.
According to what l hear, Cover
nor Benson has been working the last
few years with that object in mind
and he would have had the idea car
ried out if it hadn't been for the
bad men occupying seats in the State
Senate and for the all powerful Pres
ident of the United States.
1t seems as though that man in
Washington holds the Governor, and
for that matter all the rest of the
country, in the hollow of his hand
If you don't please him you are out
of luck and you can't do anything
no matter how much flying you are
doing. You have to conform to his
code or suffer political death.
All political parties are building
platforms out of planks that are
pretty well seasoned; but each year
a few new timbers are added. They
tell me that this is done mostly fol
the benefit of the voters and not sc
much for being guide or rule tc
be adhered to after election day
which may or may not be true.
This year the three major partie:
| ;,, efofo LoH ~ ~
a platform. A number of the plank.
used by the different parties are
quite similar, so much so that accusa-
tions of stealing have been intimated
How that may be l don't know; bu
the fact remains that all of then
are very much alike, and to us voter:
they appear to be good, sound ano
ideal.
Now, what we need to do wher
election day comes around, is to selec
the man who can put over some o.
the good things promised us in those
platforms.
If Hjalmar Petersen had been nom
mated on the Farmer-Labor ticke
1 would have given him my vote be-
cause l believe that he is the mar
that could and would have led us tc
pastures a little greener than those
on which we have been kept in the
past But he is out of the picture
this time.
Then we have Benson. He may
have the will to work for the ideals
but it seems that he is entwined in
a lot of evil forces that not even
his guardian angels are able to ex-
tricate him from them; and, further
more, some two hundred thousand
and odd Farmer-Laborites in the pri-
maries have weighed him and found
him wanting; so he is ruled out.
Then there are left Stassen and
Gallagher to choose between. The
Leader" that inspired me to write
this, does not even mention Gallagher
in the copy mailed to Box Holder
so 1 figure that the Mexican Gen.
erals" do not consider him dangerous
So he is out, and only Stassen is left
Ho bolOpoc tO tho vO11poer Pop,Ib