Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-10-20
LAFOLLETTE is NAMED
HAS SOLID BACKING OF PRO
GRESSIVES THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY
THIRTY STATES REPRESENTED
Chiefs of Progressive Movement in
the United States Express Con-
fidence in Wisconsin Man

lic lOS tCSSlFS NCjuDlCaii Coill cI-
ence, composed of representatives Of
thirty states, came to an end last night
after it had unanimously endorsed
Robert M. LaFollette for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination, had un-
animously adopted resolutions which
really make him the Progressive Re-
publican platform, and had arranged
to finance the campaign on a popular
basis and had recommended that the
work of organizing be begun in every
precinct and county in each of the
states. The conference was held in
Chicago.
1t was a very representative and de-
cidedly enthusiastic gathering. There
was manifest everywhere the idea that
President Taft cannot possibly be reel
ected and that this fact alone will pre-
vent his nomination. The nomination
of a Progressive Republican was re-
garded as the logical outcome of the
situation and Senator LaFollette as the
logical Progressive candidate.
1t will surprise many to learn that
in Ohio, President Taft's own state,
there may be titanic struggle between
his forces and the supporters of LaFol-
lette Fl. N Hickey, the chief editor
of the Scripps- -McCrae league of news
papers in Ohio, which includes the
Cleveland Press and the Cincinnati
Post, each with tremendous circula
ton, stated during a short talk to the
conference that he was making no
mere guess, when he declared that if
the LaFollette men would organize in
Ohio under aggressive leadership, they
would at least break even with the
president in the contest over the cleo
ton of delegates to the national con-
Vention. Mr.. Hickey stated that the
Ohio newspapers of the Scripps Nc
Craze league reach 100000 readers
daily and he broadly intimated that
they would be on LaFollette's side in
the fight.
Mr.. Hickey, who is known as a re-
markably cool headed, far seeing
editor, evoked great deal of applause
by his description of the situation in
Ohio. What he said was regarded as
very significant Sc was the fact that
James r. Garfield, formerly secretary
of the interior, came out during the
evening session of the conference with
a fat-footed endorsement Of LaFol-
lette. Mr.. Garfield recently had quite
a talk with ex-president Roosevelt, and
while nobody seems to know just where
Roosevelt stands with regard to La
Toilette, it is known that he deems the
election of President Taft out Of the
question.
The Illinois Progressive Republicans,
who have been holding off on the ques-
tion of a presidential candidate, met
last evening, and after d thorough dis
cussion of the situation, in which some
opposed any declaration at the present
time, decided by a big majority to
stand by LaFollette.
State Senator Walter c. Jones, the
Progressive candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for governor of Hi
nois, has devoted the past seven weeks
to making an automobile tour of Illinois.
His meetings have been we'll advertised
and in the towns which he has visited,
towns with populations running from
500 to 5000, he states that third to
half of the voters have attended the
Progressive meetings. 81 have talked
personally to thousands Of men, he
stated to The Journals repres entative,
'and while many have expressed them
selves strongly for LaFollette, and
many others have expressed them
selves strongly against Taft without
indicating their personal preferences,
not single one has spoken to me in
favor of Taft.
"When the Progressive movement In
| wisconsin Was StdTCcO, SoliIiiOCo
Senator Jones, Il understand that the
farmers were all right from the outset,
but that the voters in the cities were
backward. Here in Illinois, 1T has
been the other way until recently.
The men in the cities took up the cause
readily, and in Chicago and the other
cities, or most of them, it is very
strong. Now the farmers have fallen
into line and we are so strong that we
confidently expect to win So far as
LaFolette is concerned, the working
men as class are for him, the farmers
as class are also for him, and while
business men sometimes are heard de-
claring that he is too radical, yet other
business men, many of them, even in
Guiding bankers, say right out thai