Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1936 — Page 12

| Recent Minnesota Political Merger Cited as Roosevelt Radicalism, Wilson Says

Editor's Note—lLyle OC. Wilson, chief political writer for the United Press, in &nother dispatch on his tour of debatable slates, reports the effecis of the recent merger in Minnesota of the Democrats and Farmer-Laborites, :

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 16.~Political earthquake is jarring Minnesota with a series of shocks which may reech far beyond its borders. Here President Roosevelt has fostered partial merger of the Democratic Party with the radical Farmer-Labor organization which

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controls the state Administration. Charges of radicalism against the Roosevelt Administration are.shiftting to Minnesota today as conservatives of both major parties attempt to picture for the nation the far-reaching program of Mr. Roosevelt's newest formal political allies. Republicans ' and conservative Minnesota Democrats accuse Farm-er-Laborites of all manner of po-

{ litical heresies, including socialistic

thinking. They are planning to circulate the 1934 Farmer-Labor platform as evidence of the radical nature of the left wing political or-

ganization which controls this state. | drew at the personal request of Mr. howled “sell outX in protest against

But despite Minnesota's political ‘uproar and the near-destruction here of the Democratic Party, Mr. Roosevelt has an even or better chance to carry the state in November.

Political dynamite exploded here two weeks ago. Patrick J. Delaney

and Fred A. Curtis, Democratic candidates for Senator and Governor, announced their withdrawal in favor of Earnest Lundeen and Elmer Benson, candidates of the Farmer-Labor Party. Mr. Delaney and Mr. Curtis indicated they with-

Roosevelt.

The purpose of the withdrawals |

was to trade Democratic votes for

Lundeen and Benson for FarmerLabor votes for Mr. Roosevelt. The drive of Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential candidate, evidently was making headway in Minnesota and the liberal or radical or progressive votes of Farmers Laborites probably would have been divided between Mr. Roosevelt and

Wilkam Lemke, presidential candi-

date of the Union Party. ‘Conservative

Democratic leaders

1. Tax exemption of city and sickness, maternity, fire, cyclone, the Delaney and Curtis withdraw- | farm homesteads up to the value of [hail and life insurance. ak. a sizeable Deisoeatic faction | $4000. Felt 5. Nationalization of y has organized support | 2. Public ownership of all min Martin A. Nelson, the Republican » et jwith government or ernor. : pw meiger a attention to | Communication, banks, packing [to the government. : the 1934 platform adopted by the | Plants, factories and public utilities, | Although that was the formal Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party. {except bona fide eo-operatively- | 1934 platform of the Farmer-Labor “ » owned and operated enterprises. : party, it must be interpreted in Capitalism has failed,” said the ts platform preamble, “and immediate | 3. State operation of idle plants |1ignt of two important facts. First, steps must be taken by the people | to provide employment for all idle |it was adopted during the absence to abolish capitalism in a peaceful | citizens; products to be distributed |of the late Gov. Floyd B. Olson and and lawful manner.” to the needy. | went further under pressure of left Included 4. State operation without profit | wing Farmer-Laborites than’ it of all insurance including accident, | would have gone had Mr. Olson been

monopoly

among the planks were these: : :

waterpower, transportation and | money and credit but without profit |

on the: job at the party convention, : Second, Mr. Olson decided the plate. banking | form was too radical and the party of | materially modified it by “interpree tations” during the 1934 campaign,

Former Senator James A. of Missouri, speaking for the antiNew Deal National Jeffersonian

| Democrats, invaded the state. this | week to blast at Mr. Roosevelt for

“disloyalty” to the Democratic party. Willard J. Moran, executive secre= tary of the Democratic State Cene

tral Committee, explained the mere"

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