The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1912-03-27
.LAFOLLETTETO
Fight COLONEL
FOR CALIFORNIA
Senator TO Garry War TO Men
Who Deserted Him for
Roosevelt
State Administration Accused
of Treachery to the
''PrOgressives"
Wisconsin Candidate Coming
Here for Two Weeks CAM
paign on Stump

~ EFUSING to be coerced into
line for Roosevelt and charg-
ing the state administration
with deliberate disruption of
the progressives of California by de-
serting La Toilette after putting him
into the presidential race. the La Fol-
lette organization Is prepared to make
a fight in California such as it recent
~ made in North Dakota
The La Toilette delegate ticket viii
be ready for puBlic announcement to-
day The La Toilette managers per-
mitted it TO be understood last night
that formal announcement was de-
ferred only pending the arrival Of the
names of three delegate candidates
from southern California.
La Toilette to Fight
There will be La Toilette ticket
in the field and a La Toilette fight in
California" was the emphatic declar-
alton of representatives of the La
Toilette organization.
To those familiar with the campaign
methods of La Toilette the character
of the fight was taken out of the
realm of doubt when it was announced
that La Toilette would make a two
weeks canvass of California.
For those not acquainted with the
Wisconsin senator's methods every
doubt about the kind of fight he will
make in California has been removed
BY the formal statements made in his
behalf By his eastern and California
campaign managers.
Will AssaiI DeserterS
He and his managers purpose to
carry the war to the men who ac-
claimed La Toilette as their leader for
fully a year before they dumped him
for Roosevelt.
Campaign Manager Kase. in charge
of the La Toilette forces in southern
California started the ruction with an
open letter directed to Governor John
son. That letter consisted of a series
of direct questions about pledges the
governor was alleged to have made
TO La Toilette and requests for an ex-
planation for the avoidance of those
pledges
Rudolph SpreckeIs. who is the head
of the La Toilette movement in Cali
fornia and who it is understood will
head the La Toilette delegate ticket.
has attacked the state administration.
charging bad faith and the disruption
of the progressive movement through
boss methods
Treachery Charged
These attacks were made through
two formal statements.
In the first of these statements
spreckeIs directly charged the state
administration with using state en-
ployes. officials and persons seeking
favors for the organization of a ma
chine to control nominations and cleo
tions and to set UP a new boss rule
In the second statement. given to
the public last night, Spreckels direct
" charges the Roosevelt supporters
who formerly were for La Toilette with
treachery to the progressive cause and
with mounting the Roosevelt wagon
for their own aggrandizement rather
than for principle.
Here is the statement issued yester-
day:
AS a sincere progressive, who de-
sires neither public Office nor aught
else but plain justice and square
DEAF for every one, must chal-
lenge and condemn the editorial
appearing in the Bulletin in its
issue of March 25. 1t is there
sought to give the impression that
the La Toilette campaign is being
made in the Interest Of President
Tafts candidacy, which is untrue
Local progressives are told that to
remain loyal to La Toilette is
wrong and against the interest of
the progressive cause. This I deny.
and believe the independent
progressive voters will agree with
me
1ne men who must be charged
with progressive defeat Of such a
thing is possible in California; are
those men who, after having for
months sanctioned and approved
the candidacy of Senator La Fol-
lette, could not resist the tempta-
tion Of getting aboard the last and
most showy bandwagon to go into
the ring no doubt hoping thereby
to get a greater amount of the
publics attention for themselves.
But politicians of all brands seem
to have overlooked the fact that
the people have learned to choose
their own vehicles to carry them to
their destination-self-g government
The people read the signposts
these days, and will travel the
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