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...prohibition pledge or belonged to the Prohibition party. In fact, in 1916, when he came up for election he was opposed by a prohibition candidate. How did he win? He said: "I just kept in the middle of the road." Twenty years in Washington, however, told on Mr. Volstead's hold on his constituents. Some of his old friends had died, others had moved away from Granite Falls. In 1920 along came Rev. O. J. Kvale (pronounced Quail) and contested with him for the Republican nomination. He told the electors that Volstead was an atheist. Kvale beat Volstead...
Minnesota happens to have a law, not very often used, that if one candidate abuses his rival and lies about him to the electorate, he can be denied his nomination even if successful in the primaries. Volstead went to court. At the trial Laura testified that her father was "a good Christian man, a good father." The court disqualified Kvale. The local Republican Committee then renominated Volstead and he was reelected...
...however, Kvale ran again as an Independent, and whether Volstead had been irreparably injured by the charge of "atheist" or whether he had simply lost his hold on Granite Falls, he was defeated...
...drink nowadays, not for any hypocritical reasons but because he would regard it as lawbreaking. In fact, he seems to be a likable sort, upright, not courting the limelight, not endowed with the graces that make for success in society?but likable. But of course this is not Andrew Volstead. Volstead is a myth. Volstead is a figure as noble as John Barleycorn is sinister, a powerful crusader, a tower of righteousness, a leader of a great cause?or, if you prefer, he is a bigoted little reformer, a benighted, misguided zealot...
...functioned as Congressman Andrew Volstead's secretary? (See PROHIBITION...