Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-11-04


York City it was with the we'll defined
purpose to bring about the establish
ment of the central bank. Now that
the scheme is in such fair way for ac-
ceptance or rejection by Congress it
becomes interesting to inquire if the
National City Bank of the Rockefellers
is to be the favored institution to which
the Government of the United States
will commit the great responsibility of
contracting or expanding the currency
at will Also will Mr.. Vanderlip be
the president of the me- central bank
of issue?
There has been popular misunder-
standing in the east in regard to the
situation in Wisconsin politics as it re-
lates to Senator La Follette's chances
for reelection. The east affects the
belief that h e Senator from Wis
consin is cereain to be retired because
of the powerful and malign influences
that are at work to bring about his un-
doing. No man in the United States
Senate is so thoroughly hated and fear
ed as is the senior Senator from Wis
consin. Other Senators have denounc-
ed the System" and have hurled ora
torical shafts but Senator La Toilette
has delivered the goods. He has drawn
an Indictment and then produced the
proofs to support it. He has a habit
of coming into the Senate with an ar
ray of information that confuses his
opponents and throws them into con-
sternation. He has been the most
effective fighter for reform of any man
that has appeared in public life for
many years and it is all because of his
thoroughness. Because of this fact he
is to be retired if there is any possible
way of doing it. But the latest reports
from Wisconsin are all in his favor.
A few months ago there was much
talk in Washington that State Chair
man Edmonds would oppose Senator
La Toilette and that he would have the
support of the Taft administration, a
vast combination of corporate interests
and the fragment of the old Stalwart
wing of the Republican party. This
probably was the source of the opinion
that gained Roadway that La Toilette
could not be reelected. The comment
was frequently made that Wisconsin
could be controlled by an expenditure
of money and that there would be no
limit to the amount of money that
would be contributed by the Interests
to defeat La Toilette. In support of
this view the case of Isaac Stephenson
was cited as an illustration of what
money could do, even in Progressive
| Wisconsin. Mr.. Stephenson passed
out the hint in Washington last winter
that Senator La Toilette would be un-
horsed and that he would contribute
very literally to that end. But the news
that has been brought to Washington
by a man entirely familiar with the
situation in Republican politics of Wis
consin, Stalwart, is that the Senator
will have no opposition in the primary.
Neither Edmonds nor any of the other
men who have been put forward by the
Stalwart guard appears willing to
make the race. The only hope of de-
feating the Senator and that appears
to be vague and nebulous hypothesis,
is that combination may be formed
between Stalwart Legislators and react
ionary Democrats. The statement was
made by this Wisconsin authority who
has just returned from the state, that
the stalwarts in the next legislature
would eagerly support reactionary
democrat than suffer LaFollette to be
reelected. This combination was hint
ed at last winter.
| 1t begins to look in Washington as if
| President Taft or some of the members
of his administration who have the say
in matters of patronage swarmed out
deliberately to discipline Senator La
| Toilette, The recommendations of the
| Senator have thus far been ignored
even in the relatively insignificant mat
ter of the appointment of census super
visors. The two progressive members
of Congress, Messrs Lenroot and Mel
son, who voted against the tariff bill,
have been similarly punished. Senator
LaFollette, by all rules of courtesy
that have obtained heretofore between
the Executives and Senators was en-
titled to recommend the appointment
of census supervisor in Representa-
/ tive Weisse's district. He made rec
fermentation; it was ignored and a
Stalwart was appointed. The same
thing happened in the districts repre-
sented by Messers Lenroot and Nelson.
The men recommended by them for
their districts were turned down and
Stalwarts appointed, men who were
known to be opposed to the members
of Congress. Senator LaFollette is
chairman of the Senate Committee on