Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-08-09
MINNESOTA
POLITICAL
ROUNDUP
BY Arthur Naftalin

During the month Of August pol
tiles in Minnesota is experiencing
the customary midsummer slump
in campaign activity. A few aspir-
ants are busy getting their ducks
in a row, but most of them are
off for a spell of mentioning, par
ticularly the incumbent Congress
men who have had continuous
workout for the last several years.
The big guns won't begin booming
again until September Is or Oc-
tober l, and after that the politicos
will go all-out for the big show
which eliminates on Tuesday, No
vember 5.
The Young Republican League,
however, IN busy this month with
its eleventh annual state cOnVen-
ton which is set for August II in
St. Cloud. No sensational fireworks
are anticipated at the convention.
II will no doubt go down the line
for the full slate Of COP nominees
and pass resolutions supporting
Harold Stassen's program and join
ing the movement TO nominate Stas-
sen for President. The organization
was founded by Stassen In 1885
before he made his first bid for
statewide Office. As movements Of
young people go in politics, this
group has enjoyed q surprisingly
long and continuous history. II Is
now accepted by the senior Organi.
zatiOn as q valuable educational
arm and feeder Of new leadership
into the parent party.
Theodore Jorgenson, Democratic.
Farmer-Labor nominee for United
States Senator, makes an interest,
ing analysis Of the primary vote in
the current issue Of the Minnesotg
Leader. Asserting that the outlook
for his party is "far from dark,
Jorgenson predicts that "75 to 81
per cent Of the Shipstead votes
will go DFL in November and thai
"a great number of votes for ThyC
that were cast by members of oul
party will be back with US in th'
fall" Jorgenson says there wer'
really two parties in the Republican
primary, the Republican Farmer
Labor Party" represented by Ship
stead, and "the Republican Banker
Industrialist Party" represented b!
Thye, Youngdahl, and Stassen. o
his own party, Jorgenson says: Il
has a right wing, but | am SUR
it will be one united movement il
November"
There is likely to be some be
hind-the- scenes stress and strain il
the filing Of the vacancy in tn
position of United States Marshal
for Minnesota, caused by the dealt
Of John J. Farrell. The field o
aspirants is growing rapidly. AL
ready publicly mentioned are Ton
Gibbons, Ramsey county sheriff
John II. Mcguire, Hennepin count,
deputy sheriff; Arthur d. Reynolds
the former collector Of interna
revenue, and Harry O'Brien, Brain
erd. The names of Roy Weir. secre
tary Of the Minneapolis Centra
Labor Union, and Guy Alexander
, member of the Hennepin Count
Board of Commissioners, have ais
= been introduced in informal CONVEX
: sations.
: Theodore Slen, Of Madison, Dem
' Ocratic national committeeman
= promptly announced he would cor
suit with Harold Barker, DFL stat
I chairman and party nominee ia
/ governor. before making his recon
? mendatiOn. which presumably wi
3 be accepted by the national CON
mittee and the President. This Is
. move to prevent n patronage mat
: ter from becoming Q source Of In
tra-party conflict. The job, payin
between 1900 and 81, 900 and vii
a tually assuring hfe-tenHre, Is on
e Of the top patronage plums In tn
federal district.
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