Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-06
LAFOLLO||t NJ BO[|LR
Wisconsin Senator Will Sup
port Republican Ticket
This Year
CAN'T READ HIM OUT OF PARTY
LaFoliette Will Continue to Advocate
His Principles and Will Get Big
Audiences at Chautauquas = Ham
mond and His Candidacy For the
Vice Presidency.

viC0 TTeSIuSuSy'
Especial Washington Correspondence
Washington, June 6.-There has been
intimation that Senator La Toilette
might not support the republican tick
ct this year.
It's all wrong. It's an awful lnjus-
tice to the Wisconsin man. OF course
he will support the ticket. He always
does.
What the senator will do is this. He
is going to start from Washington this
where he will rest for few days. Then
he will. go out on a chautauqua talking
tour in the course of which he will
talk about his experiences in the last
session of congress.
He is going to talk about the AID
rich Vreeland currency bill, which he
got out of sick bed to talk to death
and didn't succeed. He will tell all
about that bill. He will tell why he
was so anxious to kill it, and why the
republican party can't afford to in
dorse it. He will admit with sorrow,
rather than anger. that it is the most
important legislative accomplishment
of the session just ended. He Will take
the hide off the measure, and the men
who made it, and the people who made
the rulings under which he was shut
off after he had been permitted to
speak only a meager, paltry nineteen
hours against the measure.
The senator, moreover, is going to
talk where it will do the republican
party the most good to have its chief
legislative accomplishment told about;
in Ohio, Indiana and New York. He
will make something like 100 speeches
on the chautauqua platform, beginning
in week or two and lasting until it
is time for him to take off his coat and
do some stumping for the grand old
republican political party. Then he
will go back to Wisconsin and do his
work for the G. o. P.
Senator I.aFollette bolt the republi-
can ticket? Not he. He knows more
effective ways of having fun with the
party to which he belongs, and from
which, kindly but firmly, he declined
to be separated just because some peo-
pie think he isn't good enough re-
publican for them.
But, being republican, Mr.. LaFol-
lette is going to devote a good share
of the autumn to work for the party.
He will do his chautauqua work in the
S,,1 1T tn inv,
Ohio and New York. skinning the cur
rency legislation and other things that
the party did, and sEinning the party
for not doing other things that he
thinks it ought to have done. That, OF
course, will not be political work;
merely keeping his personal engage
ments on the lecture platform. Then
later he will undertake his political
work proper, and go home to Wiscon-
sin to do it.
The candidacy Of John Hays Ham
mond for vice president on the repub-
lican ticket is the wonder of the
Washington world just at this mo-
nlent.
Mr.. Hammond is a great engineer, a
great mining specialist. and a man Of
the world. Two or three. years ago he
decided that he had about money
enough and concluded that when he
retired he would live in Washington
and spend the latter years of his life
in the environment of the American,
capital. There is rather surprising
of -millionaires of South
African extraction in Washington.
Hennen Jennings, who is regarded by
his friends as one of the richest men
in the world, altho he is little known
as a very wealthy man outside linn
tied circle; Henry Perkins, Leigh
Hunt and several others whose for
tunes came from gold mining in vari-
Gus parts Of the world, are either res
idents of Washington or prospective
residents. This capital has exercised
curious attraction over the bonanza
kings of Australia and South Africa
and our own west.
1t is supposed that Mr.. Hammond
who never before was heard of in
with politics, has like no.
ton. He wants something, and doesn't
see any reason why he shouldn't tell
the country he wants it. He has seen
nothing in the duties of a vice presi-
dent that should make the job so very
difficult. He observed that W. G. Con-
rad. of Montana, millionaire and min
ing genius, wants the vice president
ia nomination on the democratic tick
ct, and can't see why another OF the
same type shouldn't want it on the
republican,
The politicians don't take Mr.. Ham
mond seriously, but he is none the less
as very able man who
might be a valuable asset to the party.
Operation for Piles will not be nee