先月の初旬、世界の目はアメリカ大統領選挙に集中していましたが、その頃、私が読んでいる故郷の郷土史研究家・金沢春友さんについて、政治家としての足跡と、重なる同時代を生きた私の父との関連を考えてみました。
金沢春友さんは、1956年7月15日に常豊村村会議員4期、同村助役、54歳から常豊村の村長、74歳で塙町の町長となり、当時紛糾していた合併問題（昭和の大合併）の対処に当たったそうです。
しかし、そのもつれから1958年にはリコール運動が起きました（政敵も多かったのですね）。幸いに、リコールは成立しなかったのですが、1960年の福島県東白川郡塙町の町長選挙では、対立候補として立った近藤永昌（お孫さんは私＝宮崎の同級生です）に敗れて落選します。
この時、私は小学生になったばかりで、当時の町長選挙の記憶はありませんが、地域的に近藤永昌さん側の支持者であったと推定できます。つまり、金沢春友さんとは疎遠、かつ父は良く思っていなかったようです。
同（1960）年7月14日付で、金沢春友さんは町長職を離れますが、次（1964年）の町長選挙では81歳のご年齢で返り咲きを果たし、同年7月15日から再び町長を務めました。1968年の選挙でも再選をめざしますが、金沢春友さんの下で助役をしていた鈴木泰芳さんに敗れ、退任されました。
著書を読む限り、円満・任期満了としか記述されていませんが、反発する町民も多い中でも地域政治への関心が旺盛だったのです。そして、金沢春友さんの経歴には「敗北宣言」がなく、死の直前まで67冊目の著作（すべて自費出版）を出版するなど、天命に従うごとく生きられたのですね。
On July 15, 1956, Mr. Harutomo Kanazawa became a fourth-term member of the village council of Tsunetoyo Village and a deputy mayor of the village.
At the age of 54, he became the mayor of Tsunetoyo Village, and at the age of 74, the mayor of Hanawa Town. It seems that he dealt with the great merger of
However, the tangle led to the recall movement in 1958 (there were many political opponents, too).
Fortunately, the recall was not enacted, but in the 1960 mayoral election of Hanawa Town, Higashishirakawa District, Fukushima Prefecture, I was defeated by Eisyo Kondo (my grandson is a classmate of Miyazaki), who stood as a rival candidate.
At that time, I had just become an elementary school student, and I have no memory of the mayoral election at that time, but I can assume that I was a local supporter of Mr. Eisyo Kondo. In other words, he was estranged from Haruto Kanazawa, and his father didn't seem to like him.
On July 14, 1960, Harutomo Kanazawa resigned as mayor, but in the next mayoral election (1964), he made a comeback at the age of 81. served. He also tried for re-election in the 1968 election, but was defeated by Taiho Suzuki, who had been a deputy mayor under Harutomo Kanazawa, and resigned.
As far as I read in his books, it is only written that he was amicable and his term of office expired, but even though there were many townspeople who opposed him, he had a strong interest in local politics. And Harutomo Kanazawa did not have a "declaration of defeat" in his career, and he lived as if he were destined to publish his 67th book (all self-published) until just before his death.
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