The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-09-17
". 7. LAF0LLETTE
IS ANXIOUS FOR
WILSON VICTORY
Brother Of Republican Senator De-
clares Bosses Did Not Control
at Baltimore
DEN0UNCES COL. ROOSEVELT
Straw Votes Taken All Over the
Nation Give Clear Majority
to Gov. Wilson
DEN0UNcES COL. ROOSEVELT

Chicago, Sept. 16.--W. t. LaFol-
lette, formerly of South Dakota, but
now resident of Madison, Wis, a
brother of Senator Robert M. LaFol-
lette of Wisconsin, takes decided is
sue with the third term candidate in
reference to the nomination of Wood
row Wilson at the Baltimore con-
vention. Mr.. LaFollette has always
been a Democrat in politics.
Nothing could be further from
the truth than Col Roosevelt s
charge in his St Paul speech that
the bosses controlled the Baltimore
convention" said Mr. LaFollettee at
National Democratic headquarters
yesterday. "Mr. Roosevelt said the
BOSSES of the Democratic party were
enthroned in power by the result of
the Baltimore convention. The fun
damental difference between the
Democrat and Republican bosses
was that the Republican bosses
knew that our triumph in the Chi
cago convention meant their death
knell and in the Baltimore colven-
tion it was the bosses themselves
who arranged the outcome because
it perpetuated their rule
"The third term candidate has
gone to great lengths in his loud and
irresponsible arraignment of every
one who is not supporting him, but
he reached his limit in misrepresent-
ing and abusing his opponents in his
st. Paul speech. The recollection of
the long and successful fight which
the progressive delegates made
against boss rule in the Baltimore
convention is too fresh in the mem
ory of the American peiple to re-
quire refutation of the Colonel's
ridiculous charge. 1t might be of
interest, however, to call attention
to the editorial published by the
third termer's most powerful organ,
the Chicago Tribune, on the morn
ing of July 3, the day after Gov.
Wilson was nominated.
The Democratic Nomination.
BY the nomination of Gov. Will
son the Democratic party has placed
at the head of its ticket its most
promising leader and strongest can.
didate.
Gov. Wilson represents intelli.
gent progressivism within his party
a progressivism which found success
full expression at Baltimore, though
it failed at Chicago He is a man OF
high personal character, of distin.
guished intellectual attainments ant
of brief but brilliant political rec
ord. He is, moreover, in full SYM.
pathy with the nationwide move
ment to overthrow the alliance be,
tween professional politics and or
ganiZed money, which Is the mos
important factor in American pub
lie life today, Fought bitterly by
plutocrats, reastionaries and bosses
and made, more recently, the victim
of a campaign of Misrepresentation
and journalistic demagogy, he has
grown steadily in public favor ant
confidence.
THE Democratic party is to be
congratulated upon the choice OF
Gov Wilson. 1t also owes a debt OF
thanks to Mr.. Bryan, whose success
full fight in the convention against
reactionary plutocracy will 60 down
to posterity as one of the most dra.
matte exhibitions of the moral inhu.
ence of a great leader of the people
our political history has shown"
Straw Votes Are Taken.
IL the change in sentiment indi-
Gated by straw vote taken by the
Kalamazoo Gazette, one of the lead.
Ing papers of Michigan, is main
tanned throughout the state, Gov
Wilson will have clear majority
over both President Taft and The
third term candidate The Gazette
recently sent out 5000 ballots to
voters representing all political
parties: of these 2,369 were return
ed, with the following results;