Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-05


Chicago, H., October 3. 1917-Hon.
Robert NJ. LaFollette, the Senate,
Washington, ID. C.-My Dear Sir
You were born in Sun Prairie town
ship. while / was born in Albion
township, a few miles away, about the
same time. You may remember that
we went to school together; you may
emember a patriotic defamation
you made, when i'm adolescence at
.chool picnic. You may remember
when Edwin Booth came to Madison,
,ghen you were an undergraduate, and
lie played Macbeth" and also played
lago in "Othello." You may remem-
Ter In your college ideals how you
determined to become an actor-the
greatest In the world. You may re-
member that as AN undergraduate
YOU wrote an Grafton on Macbeth and
| lago, and how they, in your sentence,
lecame your heroes; you may remem-
| Ter how your grafton won the uni
,ersity prize; how 1t afterward won
he prize over Beloit, Ripon and Mil
| ton: how you were sent to st. Louis.
ss / recall, and you won the prize in
| IintercOllegiate oratorical contest over
oil the institutions of learning in the
| central states; you may remember how
you came back and We're graduated
with honors. and Immediately nomi-
mated for county attorney Of Dane
| county, Wisconsin, altho you were
scarcely more than a mere boy and
had never studied law. You may re-
member how you were triumphantly
elected on your oratorical supremacy:
you will remember how you entered
our law class as POSTGRADUATE, and
attended a few times, and were, as /
think, graduated. You will remembe >
how the people of Wisconsin treated
you as a boy hero, and how many
including Senator Sawyer, became
your patrons, and helped you to high
places; you will remember how the
elements personified as the witches
hailed you as the Thane of Cawdor,
and how you sacrificed your patrons
TO your ambitions. No doubt their
ghosts pass your histrionic vision.
Another Booth?
A poor boy, made mad by his stage
associations, martyred Lincoln be-
cause he thot the president tyrant.
Can 1t be possible that you. with all
of your professions and experience,
are now seeking to martyr America
as n tyrant, for the HohenZollerns?
What did Macbeth, or Iago, or ].
Wilkes Booth ever do to make the
world safe for parliamentarism?
Thru my son / have made the su-
preme sacrifice. He sprang from the
same sunlit openings of Wisconsin as
fyou. He was n college boy. His
hero was VenlZelos. the Greek rebel
against the Hohenzollerns. His thesis
was that under present methods OF
transportation the world Is not big
enough to now admit of the two forms
of government. nor small enough to
be controlled by a hereditary cult of
robber barons. and that William
should be hung and thus give sane
ton to international law. While I
paid his expenses to the military
training camps of 1918 and 1916. and
for unit Of military training in Har-
ward. in April / objected to his going
in advance of his country's call; but
his cousin, son of Henry Hoffmas-
ter, one of the German Republicans
Of 1S4S, gave him 500 and saw him
off, and told him he was fighting for
che liberty of the German people, also.
wonder which of you two, or any Of
the others up there who will fall. will
be written first In the history OF Dane
county. He was only one of some
2.200 others, educated in first prlnci-
pies, to go to the front All Of them
and others were inspired with tho
same ideals in advance Of their coun-
trys call. He realized that the busi-
ness Of the United States Is war, and