The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-04

name to oppose the La Toilette slate. Former Governor Phillip and Guy D. Golf (assistant to the Attorney-Gen- eraD have been asked to run for the i Senate against La Toilette but both have definitely declined. State off cials of the American Legion have also l been approached, but have refused to back candidate against La Toilette. i Roy F. Wilcox, of Eau Claire, for mer member of the State Senate, ap- pears to be the most likely candidate against Governor Blaine. He ran in 1918 and 1920 and came within few thousand votes of the nomination, but against him, he will be bitterly op- posed by "Stalwart" faction led by Governor Phillip.
 ATTORNEY-GENERAL SURVIVES
 Attorney-General William J. Mor- gan, the only Stalwart on the State ticket to survive the La Toilette land slide in the 1920 primaries, will be re- nominated for his present office. He will have strong opponent in Her. man L. Ekern, former State Insurance Commissioner and eX-speaker of the assembly.
 The issues of the Wisconsin cam paign differ from those of any other State in the country. Through nearly ! forty years of campaigning Bob" La Toilette has interested the people in economic issues, and the Wisconsin folk this year will be tussling with State and federal taxes, the railroad question and the tariff.
 Governor Blaine recently called the 1 legislature into special session to en- act laws removing the secrecy restric- tion on income tax returns, similar to ! the amendment which La Toilette put 1 through the Senate with the revenue bill last year. The La Toilette amend ment died in conference and Blaine's i bills were beaten by the legislature, but the Senator and the Governor will take the issue to the people in the September primaries.
 La Toilette has been fighting for | two years for repeal of the Esch-Cum- i mins Railroad law of 1920. and he will make that subject a dominant issue in | his campaign. Joseph D. Beck was elected as a La Toilette Progressive | from the eventh District, in 1920, on the railroad issue, decisively defeating John J. Esch, joint author of the Esch- l Cummins law, whom President Hard | ing subsequently, named to the Inter- state Commerce Commission over La Follette's protest.
 NEWBERRY CASE TO FIGURE
 The Newberry case and the Four Power Treaty likewise will figure prominently in the Wisconsin cam paign. La Toilette broke with the ad- ministration on both of these matters. He has indicated that he will move to reopen the Newberry case, just as he reopened the Lorimer case ten years ago, if he is returned to the Senate.
 La Follette's record in the Senate since March, 1921, would dispel any mystery that might arise as to the ad- ministration opposition to his candid acv. The Wisconsin Senator has made no pretense of staying within the party ranks but has attacked the ad- minstration with verbal hammer and tongs, even frequently assailing mem- bers of the Cabinet by name on the Senate floor.
 Aside from all this, the interests La Toilette has opposed for the past twenty years are worried about the committee situation in the Senate. Toilette is third man on the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and on the Committee on Finance. The defeat of Senator Townsend, of Mlchl- gan, would make him ranking mem- Der of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, to which all railroad legls- lation is referred, and the defeat or Senator McCumber this year in North Dakota, which seriously threatens him, would give La Toilette the ranking place on the Finance Committee which controls all tariff and taxation measures. The spectre of La Toilette standing ready to assume the chair manship of either of these committees is enough to throw the "stand-pat" ele- ment in the Senate into a state of