The Nome daily nugget., 1911-10-05
NOME, ALASKA, OCT. 5, 1911.
WILL IT PAY LAFoLLETTE7

Among men who assume to know and to admire Senator LaFollette he enjoys Go" rep1tatian of wise, aggressive, untiring, forceful fighter against organ ized greed and in favor of the canse of the people. As a most natural con sequence this course has resulted in earning for himself the bitter denun- citations of men whose animosity is {. tribute to his integrity.
 Mir laFollette does not yet enjoy the whole hearted, nation wide confidence that moves a people to rise up and de mand his nomination for president. ss they did with Roosevelt. Some very good men entertain grave doubts as to Mir. LaFollette's sincerity of purpose. and in support of their doubts tJ.yI offer. among other things that are not easily brushed aside. his present atti tude on the presidential question.
 The man who sets about industrious y to serve people must always be prepared to face the charge of being d self-seeker lt goes with the job His errors are exaggerated that. too. goes with the Job. The pathway of the re- former in politics Is bordered with a | luNuriant growth of distrust. and tl.Is IS | particularly true where office aft. of Ice and honor after honor has been sought and secured as a resul. cf this form of political activity.
 We do not sha -A the doubt nar a-e we ready to believe the stories iu cir e datiun cono.rniHs MT. f.ar-uTictta but he Is certainly developing aE un- happy tenda.cy toward bitterness and unfairness nf criticism that his friends if not his own sound judgmen-. should check. Wherever progressive insur- gency has followers in America .h. man from Wisconsin is looked up 10 d. one of it's greatest. if not the greatest, "f it's leaders. But progressiveness does not necessarily spell out the presidency for MT. LaFollette. Mir. Taft has given unmistahable evidence of progressive h"ss quite satisfactory to many men who believe in reasonable rather than ri"tous progress It is one thing for Mir. LaFollette To go on battling sin eerely and vigorously for a peoples Zeal. but 1t is quite another thing Co. Mir l.aFollette to seek to earn public favor by deliberately and systema,icai- ly seeking to destroy Mir. Taft. denying to him every attribute of sincer..y or efficiency in the hope of securIp.. 10 himself the nomination to the highest office in the land.
 To destroy Tart at any cos, .e the party SO that IaFollette may be prov ed closer to a presidential nomr.ation is the political program of a sarY H. advised man. who seems bent on theow- ing down the pillars and destroying the temple.
 lt is one of the really astonlsh,n.f features of our times how quicklr the American voters appreciate ml i,es. how largely fair play influences u,es, how accurately they locate self seeking and how promptly they resent ac.a ,ks upon public men when utrrior m,. ives may even be suspected
 A presidential nomination for Mir. Ia Toilette in 1912 seems unlikely. A con dition might arise where it would be cNpedient. but 1T Mr. LaFollette desires "a defeat his own hopes and the hopes of his friends he Is taking a course well calculated to render his nomination not only out Of the question in lsl2. but Impossible ln 1916 as well. He should be laying up treasures In futuruy