Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-08-19
LITTLE ENTHUSIASM
STALWARTS FIND DIFFICULTY
IN INTERESTING VOTERS
FAIRCHILDS MEETING is A FROST
Small Attendance and No Applause
for Anti-LaFollette Candidate
Party Solidarity the Slogan

for Anti-LaFollette Candidate
Party Solidarity the Slogan
Senator Edward E. Fairchild, of Mil
waukee, candidate for governor, made
a political address at the Court House
last Friday evening.
1t was but natural to suppose that
the event would be made the occasion of
a rally of the unterrified, the true blue,
the old guard that wouldn' recognize a
new idea though met in broad daylight.
Judging from the amount of applause
elected, however, one would conclude
that most of the 20 voters present
must have been Progressives.
Senator Fairchild is mild and genial
appearing man. He stated at the out
set that he had no criticisms to offer
concerning other candidates, and re-
view of discussion convinces US that he
did no harm to the cause of any other
candidate. Force of circumstances, he
asserted, brought him into the field.
Four other candidates had announced
themselves for governor, but none of
them had in his platform any commend
alton of the Taft or Davidson admin
istrations. Feeling that endorsement
of these officials would make a good
paramOnt issue, the Senator jumped
into the breach.
A 10 e c,oyoOEoI
lied eulOgy of the Republican party,
and particularly of the Taft administra
tiOn, the speaker slightly paused, the
sort of pause that implicitly says, eff
you have applause to give, give it
now" but evidently the audience was
too we'll bred to interrupt the proceed
ings. A few feeble taps were heard
from one corner, but otherwise the
room bore an air of silent expectancy.
Possibly the auditors expected review
of the Republican party to include
mention of the names of Mckinley,
Roosevelt and LaFollette.
Attention was called to the fact that
the Republican party has been in pow
er in state and nation since 1896, and it
was insisted that true Republican can
didates should mention and defend the
record made by the party in that time.
1t is noticeable that the only thing the
speaker found in that record to praise
was the present tariff law. Not a word
was said of the great work of RoOse-
welt in initiating a movement to protect
our natural resources from destructive
waste, Of his prosecution of cOrpOr-
ations violating the antitrust laws,
or of the start made during his admin
istratiOn toward real control of inter-
state railroads, this latter resulting
from the insistent work of Senator La
Toilette Ne mention was made of the
achievements of the La Toilette admin
istrations in Wisconsin, Of the railroad
taxation law, of the railroad rate COM
mission, of the anti-pass law, of the
insurance legislation. The only men
tian of the Republican primary law
was a slur-a statement that we must
live under it whether we will or not.
While he did not explain to his hear
ers its bearing on the office of governor,
the speaker took occasion to praise the
present tariff law. He did not mention
any details, but swallowed the whole
thing at a mOuthful and said it was
good, the best ever, in fact. In this
connection he delivered a vicious slam
at Dingley tariff law, itself a Republi-
can measure under which we got along
pretty prosperously for ten years. He
said that in 1909, under the Dingley law
5000, 900 men were out of employment,
and the 'bread line" was forming in
all the large cities, when just in the nick
of time the Aldrich-C Cannon tariff came
into being and dispelled the dark clouds
of despair.
The speaker strongly urged the ne
cessity of political parties, and of
party solidarity eve want" " he
asserted, Fthe rule of law, not of
men," From which we take it that
there is something about political
party that is not a product of men,
that is, perhaps, divine in its source
Therefore, the duty of all men is to fol-
low some party or other, blindly and
subsequently.
Considerable time was spent in dis
cussion of the subject of industrial in
surance. Extended review of this
norton of his speech is not necessary,
as he stated that all classes favor such
insurance, hence it has no bearing on
the issues of the campaign.