New Britain herald., 1914-08-01
La Toilette to Be Under Fire.
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 In the political campaign of 1914 Wisconsin is. the great battlefield of the west. In that state all arms, all tactics are used and the conflict thickens as the days go on Summer heat counts for nothing, so much more intense is patriotic heat. The central point is taxation, and if all goes back to the university though one scarcely hears that institution mentioned in current talk, so engulfed has it become in the whole volume of grievances. And it is all state politics. The United States senatorship com mands little attention. .....
 The La Toilette fortress is an object of fierce attack. That gentleman has just published in his own personal organ a characteristically virtuous article, in which he holds Gov. Me- Govern responsible for the high taxes. The accused man is able to make a perfectly satisfactory reply, and tho general sentiment of the state is de- cidedly in his favor. These two men parted company politically some months ago. McGovern appears to be maintaining his popularity, but there is tremendous reaction against La Toilette and all his whlmsies No longer does it hurt d political eandi- date to call him unprogressiye, for Wisconsin has had all the progress sion it wants for the present.
 An utterance by w. D. Hoard, for- merly governor of Wisconsin. has made a deep impression. char acteristic portion of this outgiving is. We followed La Toilette in his chase after every wild notion he could think of, and we backed him up and kept him and his band of progressive ex- perimenters in power. Now we cry out; we are confronted with the con- sequence of our own action" The logic of this aged mans reasoning is, Elect Emanuel l.. Philipp governor
 Philipp is described by his friends as conservative republican, but .t matters little what he calls himself. He will get many progressive and democratic votes. Philipp is making a vigorous campaign. Incidentally, he appeals to the common sense or the people by refusing to allow his machine to go more than twenty miles an hour, and remarks as to the speed CTS, They have applied their speed mania to state appropriations, and haven't even footed their horns to al- low the taxpayers to get out of ths way
 The recent nomination by the den- ocrats of John c. karel of Milwaukee, for governor, and Thomas M Kearney of Racine for United States senator is at least a necessary formality, and there is as much discontent with state financial conditions among that class of the citizens as with others but there is more likelihood of division in the democratic than in the repub- lican ranks, and the progressive democrats" are putting forward John A. Awkward against Karel. Aylward's followers call the other fellows re- actionaries, and are advertising ths support of President Wilson as ono of their chief cards.
 All these political movements are . continuation of protests, consultations. conventions and every other method of giving expression to discontent for the last year or more, and the uns- versity of Wisconsin is the buIlseye of the target at which they are all aiming. It is believed that the Roose- welt progressives will give this pror paganda all the support they can in q quiet way. for it means antagopism to La Toilette.