The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-06-16
MANY EXPERIENCED VOTERS

MANY EXPERIENCED VOTERS
have gone to the polls feeling well informed
on candidates and issues and discovered
contests to which they had given little
thought. To avoid hit and miss marking of
names in the little discussed contests, new
and old voters will be wise to check over the
sample ballots printed in this issue and
make their decisions before election day.
ANY STUDY OF THE STATE BAL
lot cannot fail to inform the voter that he
must decide which party ticket he wishes to
vote Voting for Farmer-Labor candidate
for governor and then marking Republicans
or Democrats for other offices "spoils" the
ballot and it cannot be counted at all. The
number of spoiled ballots thrown out in any
precinct indicates the number of poorly in
formed voters living there. Vote yours
carefully.
LAST WEEK WE EXPRESSED
amusement over the efforts of Republicans
and Democrats to attract interest to their
campaigns, pushed off the front pages by
the Benson-Petersen scrap. Hardly had the
new press, on whose intricacies the shop
force is still plenty green, completed it's run
when Carl Anderson called at the office in
the interest of his race for the Republican
nomination for congress. Asked about Pet
ersen's power in other parts of the district,
he stated frankly that Hjalmar's chances
look excellent. Asked as to his own concern
about outsiders jumping party lines for an
early thrust at Benson, he declared it mat
tiers little if the Republican primary vote is
small. "My competitor will probably lose as
much support as I do by the SWITCH" he
reasoned. . p" o." -"
p.
sens strength are almost too encouraging
to suit his supporters. Several residents of
the city who recently returned from visits
to northern and eastern points, including the
Twin Cities and the! Iron Range say the
same thing Everyone is talking Peter
SEM So far Twin Cities election-guessers
haven't given Hjalmar much chance a good
sign as they're usually wrong. The Benson
workers are really in action putting 'the
heat" on every possible campaign source
particularly state employees and contract
ors and supply men doing business with the
state for more cash to finance more radio
blasts. All signs fail in dry weather, they
say, but this has been wet spring.
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ORDERS Of 1850 BALLoTs FOR
both the State and county election have been
printed for Redwood county voters, in COM
pliance with a state law which insists that
each precinct be supplied with more than it
is likely to need in the vain hope that some
day all Americans will take advantage of one
of their greatest privileges. You owe it to
those friends on the county ballot who may
be eliminated without your support, to take
a. few minutes off Monday to- vote You
have preferences in the state campaign
which you should indicate at the polls. More
than anything else you should enjoy the
knowledge that you have done your part as
a citizen. .
SOME 16 Of THE COUNTY OFFICE
candidates got together down at Clements
Monday evening, agreeably appeared" for
the benefit of voters and "guyed, each other,
all amicably. 1t is rather typical of the cur
rent local campaign which has seen mini
mum of name calling and personal attacks
of any kind. Politics isn't what it used to
be, according to old timers, and in this in
stance at least we're glad of it.
DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
county ballot where the tired voter gives it
a minimum of consideration is one of the
most important offices, that of county COM
missioner. Even in this day of centralized
government, the county board is an import
ant tax levying and spending body and de-
termines county policies on such matters as
relief, roads, bitches, financing, purchase of
supplies and numerous other items which
directly effect the voter. Those readers
who have a primary contest In their COM
missioner district will do well to give very
careful consideration to the matter.
THE LATEST YARN ON THE
Christgau custer is that John L. Lewis was
the go-between for the Benson crowd, be-
ing interested o. the basis that Christgau
was anti-labor in his views on WPA wage
and hour schedules about which there has
been SO much complaint in rural sections
The conjecture, and it is probably no more
than that, rather belittles the state admin
istration's influence with the federal chiefs
and raises the question as to how otter
Lewis has been its bargaining agent. Handi
capped since the recession quieted his heavy
strike program, Lewis was thought to have
ceased to be power in dealing with the
president.