The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-02
LA TOILETTE ONLY
IN WISCONSIN
Democrats Fail to Qualify
for Place on Official
Ballot
AN INDEPENDENT
TICKET COMING

Expected Conservative Republicans WIFE
Support lt-Can't Disturb La Fol-
lette's Victory. However-He Has All
Discontinued Elements with Him.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial Dispatch to The Reformer.)
.-- Copyright 1922.
MADISON, Wis, Oct. 2-Politics in
this state can be summed up in one
phrase-La Toilette, that's ALL
There isn't even an opposing party.
the Democratic party has been obliter-
ated. Only 1900 votes were polled for
senator and 10000 for governor in the
Democratic party and the state law re-
quires a minimum vote of $4,000 to put
party ticket into the race
The Democrats didn't qualify. but
their alternative is to enter ticket Ia
beled independent" This they will do
and Mrs. Jesse Hooper will run for
United States senator. Those regular
Republicans who can't stand La Toilette
will vote for the independent ticket but
the total viii be negligible.
The big fight is over 1t all happened
IN the primaries. Election day here
nowadays Is something like election day
III the Solid South, ratification of the
primaries.
Wisconsin is Il pertinent example Of
| evolution inside the Republican party
La Toilette won by 100000 votes. the
| vote was almost unanimous and he ear
RED with him IL other La Foilettes com
prlslng the whole delegation to the house
OF representatives. Nine of the eleven
were out and out La Toilette men and
others lean his way more strongly than
any other.
If the Republican party is reforming
itself from within, the victor here is on
| the La Toilette side for the moment any
way. But il would be an exaggerati0n
| to say that Wisconsin has permanently
committed itself TO radicalism II is
committed to La Toilette and were he TO
retire from politics tomorrow. there H. no
assurance that a man of his doctrines
would be triumphant.
Won by Personality
For it is La Toilette who won by his
dominating personality. Il shrewd pol
lucIan, man with all kinds of follow
ings from pink To red and from wet to
| dry, voters of foreign birth or ancestry,
| laborlte, progreSslyeS, agriculturiSts
| There never was Il more complicated vote
| To analyZe.
1t is true La Toilette capitalized all
| the discomfort. lie gloried in his war
! record. He virtually asked for vintliCi-
! ton, insisting that he was right when
| he made the famous speech in st. Paul
] which temporarily oStracized him in the
| United States senate. He blamed Will
/ son for instigating the war and pointed
| III his speeches on the burdens of taxa
| ton as confirmation of his dire predic-
| tionS of those days when he voted against
| war. He is admired for his courage aud
| former Senator Beverage of Indiana
| characterized him the other night in n
| public speech as the most brilliant radi-
| cal in the United States"
La Follette'S landslide was very much
| like Harding's in 1920. He got all the
/ protest votes. all the discontinued Gle
/ ments Vets voted for him and helped
| pay for advertisements printed widely il
| the state. This didn't antagonize tn,
! drys either. for the latter cared NOR,
I about standing by La Toilette because oil
his war views than they did about pro
| hibtion. SO in the Technology of tn,
| street, The got them coming and going
| There will be a light vote east in the
| election La Toilette is practically
| elected now. What does his victory sig
| Nifty? Certainly il was more of Il mega
! tive vote than an affirmative mandate
| 1t emphasized also that the ''boriue
I from within" process which radicals II
the West have been utilizing ever sine
| they captured the machinery of the Ike
publican party in North Dakota few
years ago is highly successful.
Democratic Drift Among Regulars.
To offset this gradual absorption o
the Republican party bS radicals, thu
regular Republicans have been consider
| ing fusing with the Democrats. But the
decision is in favor Of keeping the figh
! within the party and trying to win mex
| time. Native born Americans and othcr'
who Indignantly resent La Toilette
views are powerless to apply punishment
| Fully - per cent of the electorate il
either foreign born or first generation
Americans. Labor looks on him MS
great champion. Committees of labo
leaders worked indefatigably for La Fol
lette. 1t was we'll organized. well man
aged we'll financed campaign, and fo
six years more Bob La Toilette Will play
his part in the senate. interpreting in hi
own way the curious mandate of thou
sands of voters who call themselves Re
publicans just as much as do the stan,
patters or the conservatives of MasSachu
scttS or Pennsylvania.
The signs of political revolution ar
unmiStakabe The election in Noyem
Der turns not so much on whether TIN
Republicans will win, for they have tn,
upper hand-but what kind of Republi
cans will sit in congress and what kind o
delegates win go to the next presidential
convention from western states.
\ strong hive of bees will numbe
GO.00O individuals. A wasp's nest aver
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