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stassen purge shipstead' effort, the
act of dictator.
Mr.. Nelson said that Senator
Shipstead refused to bow to the
commands of MI. Stassen, and as a
result Mr. Stassen has put a sub
stitute candidate in the field against
him. Senator Shipstead refused to
bow before the Wall Street manipu-
lators and. as result, they are sup
porting Mr.. Stassen's candidate. He
refused to bow before the dictates
Of Sidney Hillman, chairman Of the
CIO-PAC, and as a result has been
placed on the CIO-PAC purge list,
along with other able Senators. He
refused to bow before the dictates
of the first cousin of the CIO-PAC,
the Communist party, and as re-
suit, James W. Ford erstWhile can
didate of that party for President,
announced short while ago in Min
neapolis that Senator Shipstead was
on the Communist purge list"
Another charge made by Mr. Mel
son was that Wall Street financiers,
the CIO-PAC, and the Stassen
group in Minnesota are spending
thousands of dollars in Minnesota
in the effort to purge" Shipstead
Senator Shipstead he painted as
poor man, needing the help of all
the plain citizens of Minnesota
Record of Frankness Cited.
Mr.. Stassen's friends pooh pooh
the dictatorship charge. If there
is one thing, they say. for which
Mr.. Stassen has made record it is
telling the people exactly what he
intends to do and what he believes
in. They point to his declaration In
favor of international collaboration
for peace, long before Pearl Harbor,
when Minnesota was regarded as
hotbed of isolationism. They recall
his frank announcement, many
months before his last election as
Governor in 1912, that If elected
Governor he would serve through
out the session of the legislature
and then resign to enter the Navy.
He coupled with this statement
request that Mr. Thye be elected
lieutenant governor. Mr.. Thye, he
said, would make the State an eX-
cellent Governor.
This announcement shocked the
stassen following and Republicans
generally in Minnesota. But the
people of Minnesota apparently
understood what he was driving at,
and they liked his frankness. He
might, if he had been more devious,
have said nothing about his plan to
resign ,and enter the Navy until
after he had been reelected Gov
ernor
Again there was CONSERVATION in
some StasSen quarters when Mr.
Stassen last March announced he
would not be a candidate against
Senator Shipstead, but that he
would support Gov Thye for Sena-
tor and Judge Youngdahl for Gov
ernor. AS time has gone on, how
ever, the people have been more and
more impressed by the frankness of
this statement Many Of them feel
that had Mr.. Stassen been willing
to run for the Senate, he would
have won the nomination without
difflculty. But Mr.. Stassen regards
himself as an administrator, not a
legislator. He did not want a place
in the Senate. Further, he wanted
to get around the country and do
everything ne could to impress the
American people with the need of
making the United Nations, whose
charter he helped to write in San
Francisco last year, a complete
success.
Avowed 1948 Candidate.
1t is predicted by his friends here
that during the next year and half
Mr.. Stassen will travel in all parts
of the world to familiarize himself
with the world situation and inter-
national politics, including Europe,
Asia and South America. He is re-
garded here, as he is elsewhere, as
an avowed candidate for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination in
194s There is no slightest doubt he
will have Minnesota back of him in
his quest, particularly if Gov Thye
and Judge Youngdahl win election
this year.
Judge Youngdahl is 50 years old,
the son of parents who had come to
this country from Norway and
Sweden. His father for years ran
a grocery store in Minneapolis. The
son delivered groceries as a bOy and