Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-07
TAFT ADMINISTRATION PLANS
TO "REDEEM" STATE FROM
SOCIALISM.
HOPES TO BREAK ALLIANCE
WITH LA TOILETTE CROWD
Vice President Sherman to Be Sent
Into State to Open the Campaign -
Congressman Foss May Aspire to
Lodges Seat in senate-WiIl Make
Things Lively if He Enters Contest.
Especial Correspondence

washington, June Z. - fTesideG'
Tafts socialism speech in Jackson.
Mich. is regarded among politicians as
the first move in a direct fight against
Senator LaFollette.
The recent capture of Milwaukees
city administration by the socialists is
looked upon as the result of a natural
alliance of the LaFollette republicans
with the socialists. The Taft admin
istration has from the start been
strongly antagonistic to Senator La
Toilette, having at the outset taken
away from LaFollette all patronage
prerogatives and made as clear as pos
sible that it was going to fight him in
all ways. LaFollette's friends insist
that the senator did not fight back un-
til he realized that he had no chance
whatever to get what he considered a
fair chance at the admins STATIONS
hands
Then it was that the LaFollette peo-
pie went in with the Milwaukee social
lists. with the result that the socialists
captured the metropolis of Wisconsin.
The expectation is that in return for
this support, the socialists as we'll as
all other radicals in Milwaukee will
throw their support to LaFollette in
the primary on Sept. II, in Wiscon-
sin. This is given as the reason why
the LaF'ollette forces have been so
calmly confident about the outcome of
the fight in the state. The socialists
are not confined by any means to Mil
waukee tho their greatest strength is
there.
President Taft is credited with a
pretty definite understanding of this
coalition, and a purpose to smash it II
he can by an appeal to the conserva-
tive sentiment of the state and coun-
try. The plans for big meeting in
Milwaukee. at which Vice President
Sherman will speak. are taken as the
first overt act of direct hostility toward
the Wisconsin alliance. The admins
tration's campaign is expected to be
based on determined plea for support
of those elements which have bitterly
opposed socialism, and to the senti-
ment of party regularity. Politicians
in sympathy with the administrations
move consider that a good deal is at
stake because If LaFollette should win
after such contest it would be re-
garded as q defeat for the administra-
ton, and would commit the republican
insurgent movement to more radical
policies than it has thus far under
taken.
The Honorable Eugene n. Foss, of
Massa chusetts, is interesting a great
number Of people in New England
these times, because Of persistent re-
ports that he may be a candidate for
senator against Henry Cabot Lodge.
Mr.. Foss has somewhat variegated
political record behind him: but that
isn't all he has on which to run for
the senate. He is rated as one Of
half dozen of the wealthiest men in
New England, and report has it that
he is beginning to give encouragement.
to some Of the suggestions that he be-
come a candidate for the senate.
Mr.. Foss is one of those interesting
people whose political right hand never
knows anything about the concerns of
the money-making left hand. Foss is
one Of the original tariff reformers. He
just sizzIes with language when he
talks about the Payne-Aldrich bill, and
the bill sizzles. too. In business and
in politics alike he has been something
of a plunger. He is the head, or Is
deeply interested in, various big cor
porationS that are concerned with pro-
lection; but that makes no difference
to Foss the politician. He thinks
lot of his industries are getting more
protection than they need, and he
doesn't hesitate to say so.
If Mr.. Foss yields to the clamors for
him as a candidate for the senate, he
will make things edifying. He is a
good spender in politics, and the Mas
sachusetts democrats have been point
ing out that in modern times. when
ever they had a decent showing in the
division Of campaign funds, they have