The Saturday press., June 01, 1935, Image 6

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The Saturday Free*
Undaunted by Poverty, Unawed by Wealth
The Official Publication of Every American Citizen
If you receive this paper, it’s paid for—if not by yourself,
then by a friend who wishes yon to read it.
You will receive no bill.
Better get a copy of next
week's Saturday Press. If the
truth hurts you, you’ll yelp when
you read it. It’s going to be the
biggest eye-opener ever publish
ed in this city and the finest an
tidote for ‘Latimer on the brain'
you ever tried. Next week’s is
sue will be a sure and positive
cure for “Tom's touches.”
. LATIMER SWITCHES
POSITIONS ON CHIEF
MIKE JOHANNES
(Continued from page 5)
the daily press. He says:
*1 say Johannes is under
the dominition of the Citi
zens’ Alliance and I have
the correspondence to prove
it.” Aside from the fact
that his statement is abso
. lutely false, let me remind
the voters and especially
those of the farmer-labor
party and organized as well
as unorganized labor, that
if Mike Johannes IS owned
and controlled by the Citi
zens Alliance, which he is
not, then Tom Latimer
must be sore because he
wasn’t cut in on the oivner
ship and control two years
ago , for at that time HE
declared, as I have said, that
HIS choice for chief of po
lice, was Mike Johannes!
But let’s see what evidently —
laid certainly caused Brer
Thomas to change his opinion of
Johannes:
In April last year, the commu
nists staged a riot. They organized
6ie “unemployed” for a grand
march. The march began at the
Auditorium. As soon as the
marchers sv. Jng into line, com
munist agitators circulated
among them and began attaching
communist-red bands to their
arms. Hundreds refused to ac
cept them. But nothing deters
a communist. They managed
to get several hundred marchers
to wear read bands—the insignia
of communism.
Scattered through the march
ing columns, communist agita
tors harangued and shouted.
They u'cre playing on the latent
tnob spirit! They are past-mas
ters of mob psychology! By the
time the marchers reached the
city hall and court house they
were in a semi-ugly mood. Na
turally, they were denied admit
tance to the court house and city
hall. They surged around the
building. On every side they
were £ disorderly mob and placed
In strategic positions, were paid
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communist agitators.
I stood within ten feet of Sam
Davis and three of his colleagues
when they delivered speeches
that had they been delivered in
M. .cow and aimed at the com
munist government of Russia,
would have brought out several
firing squads —and a paucity of
noisy agitators.
Eventually the rioting started
and eventually Davis and several
of his cohorts found themselves
in jail. Mike Johannes called the
communist bluff!
They were “peaceful unem
ployed workers” so Latimer and
his cohorts tell you. If they
were, then the imps of Hell have
been slandered for more than
six thousand years. If those ruf
fians were “peaceful” then the
imps are angels.
A few weeks later, encouraged
by Latimer’s BOSS —Governor
Olson—the communists staged
another “demonstration’’ known
as the “May strike.” Mike Jo
hannes was still chief of police
—the same Mike Johannes that
Tom Latimer intended appoint>-
ing chief of police had he been
elected instead of Bainbridge!
As a result of that May com
munist “demonstration” and pro
fessed “strike” two men were
murdered by “peaceful pickets’'
and more than one hundred and
eighty were seriously injured!
Mayor Bainbridge was still
confined in a hospital and the
burden of protecting the lives,
liberties and property of more
than half a million people, rested
upon the shoulders of the man
Tom Latimer declared twelve
months previously that if HE
were elected HE would appoint
to head the police department-
Michael Johannes!
But in those twelve months,
Latimer had undergone a great
change of heart: He had been
given a petty jet by Floyd Olson
—a job in the banking depart
ment in St. Paul. During the
“strike” and the communist
“demonstration,” Latimer had
nothing to say. He was satisfied
to eat pap from the Olson trough
even though the spoon wets small!
I called on him once in his office
—a desk rather. He was tame
and content. He likes the taste
of pap. He had little to do ex
cept sign his paycheck—and di
vert certain cases to his law of
fice? in Minneapolis.
Now next week I’m go
ing to take the hide of La
timer and his communist co-
THE SATURDAY PRESS
Latimer Accepts Contribution From
Slot Machine ‘Spreader’ 2 Years Ago
Accepted Three Hundred Dollars Cash and Invitation to Elaborate Dinner Dur
ing ’33 Campaign From Slot Machine Magnet. Records Disclose That Expend
itures and Receipts Are Not Siamese Twins—ln Fact Not Related. And We
Are Presumed to Have a Statute Defining Corrupt Practices? Lei’s Take a
Look!
By Nomad
As the endorsed candidate for
one c f the most ruthless political
machines that has ever function
ed in these United States, Lati
mer is traveling daily from ros
trum to rostrum delivering to
listeners the dope dictated by the
“invisible government”—his F-L
bosses.
They have raised a number of
issues for Tom’s use in more or
less frantic efforts to hold an
offensive but there are no issues
which they can raise which won't
rebound on him and the party
bosses behind him.
It is axiomatic that the best
plans are of little use unless
backed by men of principle and
honor. This is no aspersion. La
timer and his party boss cohorts
are not hamstrung with principle
and honor. That is an accusa
tion.
Latimer gets himself on plat
forms and tells the world that
if he is elected mayor “laws are
horts. I’m goin e to prove to
the intelligent members of
organized labor and the
farmer-labor party that Tom
Latimer has played them for
suckers for many years, just
as he did “the Old Man”—
only I managed to get my
eyes open and you folks
have got to!
But before I put the “30”
mark on this column, let me rei
terate, that when Tom Latimer
tells you that he will discharge
Mike Johannes immediately he
is elected mayor, ask him if he
would have fired Mike if HE
had been mayor and the commu
nists staging what amounted to a
civil war! Ask him, you workers
if I have lied so much as one
word in this article. Ask him if
he didn't tell “the Old Man” and
the late Howard Guilford, that
in the event of his election two
years ago, that he would appoint
Mike Johannes as chief of police
I defy him to deny my state
ments—this or any other state
r.ent I make during this cam
paign.
He has promised and lied to
you workers for years. He has
used you during many cam
paigns. He has posed as your
friend and as the champion of or
ganized labor— and he plastered
the city and county zvith “scab”
signs! While begging for the
votes of organised labor!
If he’d “double” on you in
that case —more than one, as I
shall prove— he’ll double on you
again and again and again. He's
the prince of “doublers” believe
it or not! And if you have the
intelligence God gave geese, I’ll
prove it to you before this cam
paign ends!
t-» be enforced, rackets and spe
cial privilege stopped, and exist
ing graft for protection purposes
stopped if he has to fire city of
ficials to do it.”
What sort of a ring does a
statement like that have when
sounded by Latimer, who, two
years ago accepted campaign
money from a heavy slot ma
chine interest? Latimer’s state
ment by innuendo, is an asper
sion on a number of people, in
cluding his opponent. It mat
ters nothing to Latimer that his
opponent has clean hands. To
Latimer, politics is a game to be
played by slight-of-hand, any
thing goes that might contribute
to the desired end. Good reputa
tations of other people who stand
in the way are destroyed thru
hook or crook by the gang’s char
acter assassins while Tom as
sumes a pose of lily-whiteness.
It ill becomes Latimer to say
that he is a better friend of or
ganized labor than is his oppo
nent. He has betrayed organized
labor on more than one instance.
Witness his handling of the
case of the Minneapolis Steel &
Machinery Company’s employes,
his patronage of non-union shops
for campaign signs, his stamping
of those signs and fraudulently
making them appear as union
made, and his use of non-union
bill posters on large scales.
On the other hand his oppo
nent was appointed to positions
of high public trust by Tom’s
party leaders, Gov. Olson and ex
mayor Anderson. These appoint
ments should operate as a bar
for Latimer attacks as to his op
ponent’s general stand on im
portant public questions, as well
as a bar against personal attacks
from the same source.
It is clever strategy tho for
Tom and his cohorts to strain
themselves to keep on the offen
sive because if they can keep
their opponents busy answering
questions there will be no oppor
tunity to effectively get behind
Tom’s front! There are too
many questions about Tom's rec
ord which he has good reason
not to want pressed on him.
He is not anxious to be re
minded about that slot machine
matter. But it naturally jumps
up whenever he speaks about en
forcing laws, rackets and special
privilege, and graft for protec
tion purposes that he will stop
if he becomes mayor. When he
talks about the appointment of a
police chief, he must have in
mind one who will not interfere
with slot machines and the sweet
revenue from protected conces
sions ! It is a cinch that the slot
machine interest (another in vis-
ible government eyeing Tom),
from which Tom accepted cam
paign money, had in mind receiv
ing a concession in return if Tom
was elected—and it still has!
Having in view the receipt of
this slot machine money, a sur
vey was made of Tom’s sworn
statement of campaign receipts
and disbursements to see if he
had listed it properly. We
weren’t surprised to find that he
had overlooked (?) the matter
of entering that item. The sur
prise was to find that Tom had
made no entries of receipts in
in any of his sworn reports. In
fact he swore that he had re
ceived no contributions of money
or things of value!
Tom, that is a false oath. As
an officer of the court, as a law
yer, you know that is perjury,
and there are a number of other
people who know that the swear
ing to such a statement is per
jury.
You know what the provisions
arc for a candidate under the cor
rupt practices act. Candidates
are required to make periodical
sworn statements to their filing
officers covering the receipts and
disbursements of all things of
value used for campaign pur
poses. A dishonest report is
criminal and as it relates to elec
tion it is specially punishable by
forfeiture of office if the guilty
one wins election.
Tom was third high in that
election and, while he was him
self r tilty of having violated the
corrupt practices act, he sought
to have his name placed on the
ballot by having the Bainbridge
nomination contested for alleged
violation of another section of
the act!
it also developed that Tom
was guilty of similar perjuries in
the filing of his campaign re
ceipts in 1930, when he was a
candidate for county attorney,
and in 1932, when he was a can
didate for district judge.
Beside not listing any monies
received by him for campaign
purposes in these various cam
paigns, Tom failed to list the re
ceipt of materials used in making
the several thousand signs. And
much of this material was col
lected by Tom personally with
out the knowledge and consent of
the owners—if his own confes
sions are to be believed.
Those materials come under
the head of “ Things of Value*
as contemplated in the corrupt
practices act and require listing.
Such is the tainted record of
Tom Latimer and it is no small
wonder that Tom and his F-L
boss friends strain themselves to
keep on the offensive so that his
opponents will be too busy to
penetrate Tom’s front .
June 1, 1935