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• W4379780206 abstract "2 Profile of a Ward Boss: The Political Career of Lars M. Rand* by Carl H. Chrislock During the last weekend of September, 1913, a doleful message passed by word of mouth through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhoods of south Minneapolis: The barefoot boy is dead. Further identification of the departed one was unnecessary . Nearly all established residents of the sixth ward knew - or thought they knew - that fourteen years earlier Alderman Lars M. Rand had delivered a speech containing a startling autobiographical revelation: Forty-two years ago on the rocky coast of Norway there was born of poor but honest parents a barefoot boy. Who was that boy? That was me, Lars M. Rand.1 Whether Rand actually said what was attributed to him on that occasion is uncertain. In any event, the barefoot boy image remained attached to him long after memories of other aspects of his career had faded.2 During his twenty-year tenure on the Minneapolis city council - from 1890 through 1910 - Lars Rand collected a number of other images. Journalists occasionally identified him as the little alderman - in physical stature he was short and in later years his girth expanded. Some dubbed him the *This article is a much expanded version of a paper presented at a conference at St. Olaf College, October 26-27, 1984, on Scandinavians and Other Immigrants in Urban America. 35 36 Carl H. Chrislock The Minneapolis Journal, Sunday, December 30, 1906. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. little Norwegian, and although his physique did not conform to Nordic stereotypes his friends insisted that he was a courageous, resourceful modern-day Viking. Viking symbolism is, of course, a double-edged instrument. One cartoon carrying the caption, This missed being by a thousand years or so, portrayed Rand as a brutal chieftain in Viking attire imperiously commanding two hapless slaves to fetch him his supper. Rand was not reticent with respect to his ethnic background . On one occasion he responded to harsh attacks from the opposition by telling his audience: Your humble servant was born on the coast of Norway, with the rocky hills upon Lars M. Rand 37 The Minneapolis Journal , Sunday, December 30, 1906. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society. one side and the angry waves of the blue ocean on the other. This declaration inspired a cartoon depicting the infant Lars perched dangerously on a narrow ledge between a turbulent sea in the foreground and a massive rock formation in the back. Incidentally, the lad was wearing wooden shoes.3 Although these images helped to shape the Rand legend, they do little to illuminate the real Lars Rand. His outstanding trait was an uncanny ability to wield power within two 38 Carl H. Chrislock chosen spheres, the sixth ward and the Minneapolis city council. Within the sixth ward his power base was built on two foundations: tight control of the ward's Democratic organization and strong appeal to sixth ward voters, an appeal extending well beyond the Democratic electorate. Within the city council his dominance was less impressive than in the sixth ward - Democratic aldermen were always in the minority throughout the twenty years that Rand was a council member - but his influence was considerable. Thanks to his mastery of parliamentary procedures, Rand frequently succeeded in manipulating council processes to serve his ends. His superior skill as a legal craftsman was highly valued by colleagues seeking to draft ordinances of dubious constitutionality . Finally, he was a shrewd negotiator who on a number of occasions managed to initiate the formation of bipartisan combines that effectively negated control of the council by its perennial Republican majority. Rand's many critics admired his capacities as a vote getter and municipal legislator. Their case against him focused not on competence but on two other complaints: his electioneering tactics and his allegedly total commitment to the parochial interests of the sixth ward at the expense of the city's broader concerns. On the occasion of his retirement in 1910, the Minneapolis Journal summed up the critics' case in an editorial titled A Hero of the Ward System. According to the Journal , Rand's political durability was attributable to the stagnant character of the sixth..." @default.
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