Evening star., 1922-11-06
'LAFOLLETTEL LACKS
STRONG OPPOSITION
Wisconsin Politics Bores Him
and He Stumps Nearby
States for Others.
Special Dispa tch TO The Star.

peen quite as llStleSS as the one nov
drawing to a close. The great clean
up in the republican primary, in whi, d
senator La Toilette and his entirs
slate were nominated by overwhelm
ing maJoritIes, is one reason for tha
apathy. The other is the fact that IN,
democratic party. which lost its pIac,
on the ballot in the primary at,
failed Of restoration through a prn -
ceeding in the supreme court is re-
saroed as being too badly crippled
through the irregular character "f
! Its tight to hope for success
The democratic candidate for sei.-
ator. Mrs. Jessie Jack Hooper of Osh-
kosh; the candidate for governog.
Arthur A. Bentley of La Crosse, ana
| nearly all other democratic candl-
dates are on the ballot as indepeu-
dents. Republicans who support the
La Toilette slate can vote their con-
victionS with a single cross on tiIr.
ballot. Democrats and their allies
must search out the democratic can
didates and mark them one by Onc.
sometimes seven or eight OF them.
In addition, the democrats will l~sa
the force Of the habitual straight
ticket voters. while the republicans
will enjoy this support as usual.
Despite the handicap. democrats
are making d campaign. chiefly l.,
i
comeback two years hence. Leaders
refuse to agree with gloomy proph'-
sizes that the democratic party is deaI.
Wisconsin Normally &. o. p.
The plight of the democracy is duib >
to the 40 per cent clauSe"-which re-
Quires that the candidates of party
must poll 10 per cent of the vote re-
ceived by the candidate for governor
two years before, or be barred from
the party column. In Wisconsin
sixty out of seventy counties are re
publican and elect republican count :
officials. Desiring to express a choi"a
for these county officials, democrats
have fallen more and more into tho
habit of participating in republican
primaries in order to support re-
publican friends for nominations.
Little by little the democratic primary
vote was whitfield down, until thu
year it fell below 10 per cent, Win
the result that the party has either
permanently or temporarily vanished.
No doubt the fierce fight on La Fol-
lettetism in the republican ranks con.
tributed to the catastrophe-manT
democrats took sides on that issue.
Senator La Follette's Overwhelming
ajority of 225. 600 in the primary was
helped along by La Toilette democra's
as well as by socialists. The socialist
party made no NOMINATION OF us owl
and Endorsed Mr.. La Toilette Social
lists are supporting him now. virtual.
as though he were a socialist cauai.
date. Only a peculiar provision -
law prevented them placing his Ha''.
on their own party ballot. In add
ton, Mr. La Toilette carries the -
dorsement of the Association Opp"S
to Prohibition, and in wet stat
for Wisconsin is supposed TO be ",
that is in itself a power.
Leaves State to Aid Others.
With such a multiplication Of .-
dorsements and support. Mr.. La r'''
lette has not found his campaign s.&,
the primary very interesting. ii
spoke a few times and then cross }
over into Minnesota to speak -
Henrik Shipstead. farmer labor cand.-
date for senator, and into NortA
Dakota. to campaign for eX-Gov. Lynn
Frazier. Both of these are non
partisan leaguers
Before going Senator La Toilette rr-
peated most of the things he SAID
about the war in his primary speeches,
He asserted that the United states
was not neutral that this county
went into the war to protect the So
0oO, 100000 loan OF the Morgan bank
ing interests. that a Lying press
drove the country into the war. and
that during the war dollar-a-year-
men stole s24.ooo,o 100000 from ths
government.
THE American people are the
brightest people in the world, but
sometimes they look like set Of
boobs-I think they were a set "i
boobs in the war" he told one audi.
ence. These, and other comments
have stirred the ire of Mrs. Hooper
his democratic opponent.
He says We fought the war because
Wall street wanted tt say he liod
when he said that-he has insult"i
every one of us who helped to u jr
the war for American ideals" MTs
Hooper declares. She scores the sen
ator for helping to reorganize the
Senate on the Penrose plan in Wasl-
ington and posing as progressINe
in Wisconsin. She attacked him f"r
basing his campaign upon the pre- :
sumption that the German population
of the state is disioyal-this, she says.
is an insult to that element.
Campaigns for Lnborite.
In but three congressional districts
is there a lively fieht-in the Other
eight La Toilette men will be elected.
Senator La Toilette went personally
into the ninth district to campaign
for George Schneider. labor organ
izer, who won the republican MONT
nation over Secretary of State f.. :.
Hall. who bore the La Toilette IN
dorsement before the primary.
Schneider is opposed by Judge Henry
GRASS. another of the defeated can
d:dates. who is running as an ind,-
pendent. Charles Hanzel. the dem"-
cratic candidate. withdrew, so that
Schneider faces united opposition.
No one is hazarding predictions on
the outcome. For many years the
ninth has been represented either bv
a conservative republican or a demo
crat and if Schneider carries the dis
trict it will be real demonstrati"n
Of La Follette's power.
In the fifth district (Milwaukee,
Victor L. Berger. socialist. is fighting
hard to succeed Representative w II.
Stafford, so he can again confront
Congress with the problem of seat
ing him, despite his wartime con-
viction. Berger is credited with
bringing about the socialist indorse-
ment of La Toilette for senator and
he hailed the primary result as vim
dicating his own course in the war
quite as much as il did La Follette'S.
He now says the La Toilette majority
has settled whether Berger Will ha
given his seat
"Wisconsin itself has answered the .
campaign against La Toilette and
Berger by majority of 225,000 on
primary day for La Toilette" says a
Berger campaign statement. 1t is
up to you to finish the job on Novem-
Der by giving Victor L. Berger an
equally impressive majority. 1t ia.
YOUR duty to vindicate Victor Berger'
on November The was crucified with
La Toilette during the last six years.
In the fourth (Milwaukee) district
a three-cornered fight is waged be-
tween John Shaeffer. La Toilette re-
publican; Joseph Dredzon, democrat.
and L. T. Melms. socialist. Mr.. DreG-
zon obtained a place in the demo-
cratic column. which strengthens his
position considerably. All three are
claiming victory.
STULTz HEARING FRIDAY,