The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-07-07
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1922
REPTBLICAN PARTY MIGRATE.
Tt'DE.
TIDE.

The movement in the Republican
party 10 get rid of Senator Robert NJ
I.aFollette finds wide sympathy and
support in the Republican press, Sen
Aror I.aFollette. it is alleged by his
present Republican opponents, is an
Ishfnaelite in sympathetic accord with
prs-Germanism. Socialism and even
B0lshevism. Therefore lie must go.
Truly the Republican party is a
party of rank ineratitude as well as
rank inconsistency. In the Congress nf
1920 when the detection of LaFOl-
lette would have tied the Senate and
given the Democrats control through
the vote of the Vice-President we
heard nothing from the Republicans
LaFolIette's pro-Germanism or sym
pathy with Socialism or Bolshevism.
No Republican Senator or Republican
party organ denounced him as an lsh-
mHefite When he stood shoulder to
shoulder with Henry Cabot Lodge and
Truman H. Newberry and raised his
votas and gave his vote to bedevil the
peace of the world he was good enough
for the rankest partisan Republican in
that BODY When he stood side by side
with SmoOt and BrGndagee and Hard
ing and Penrose and that intellectual
InI nd DhinnG
and voted to bring economic chaos
upon the world resulting in shrink
age in values. estimated at $4,000, 900.
200 in the United States alone. his
Republicanism went unchallenged in
the Senate Chamber and in the party
press.
Newherry. who was Just as neces
sary to the Republican party as La
Toilette in organizing the Senate and
carrying out the despicable Republic
can policy of universal sabotage, has
tbeen rewarded for his part in the con-
spiracv by confirmation of the pur-
chase of the seat he occupies. How
does il come then that LaFollette, so
recently sacr0sanct has now become
anathema? Is the lieutenant to be
saved and the ancient condemned to
perish?
The movement in the Republican
party to defeat LaFOllette this fall is
not confined to the party in WiscOn-
sin: il is nation wide in its desire.
That desireeis intensified by the grow
ing belief that Senator McCumber.
Chairman of the Finance Committee.
while Progressive. hut giving entire
satisfaction to the hard-bOiled reac-
tiOIary group in pushing the Profit
fall. making Senator Reed Smoot
Chairman OF the Finance Committee
and LaFollette next in line of
succession if lie shall he re-
elected. If anything should hap
pen to cause another vacancy in
the Craftsmanship of the Finance Com
mittee. and the possibility of Senator
Shoots retirement at no greatly re-
mote period has been discussed. Sen
.ator LaFollette would be Chair
man of the greatest and most power
ful committee of the Senate Com
mttee which has to deal with govern
-ment finances and internal and tariff
taxation
Picture to yourself LaFOllette sit
ting in the seat OF Penrose and OF
Smoot-neVer mind McCumber, for
according to prediction he won't be
there long enough to get the chair
Warm-and holding the power of life
and of death over Trusts and the min
or profiteers which make up the pred
atory interests. Picture to yourself
Wall Street and the great corporate
heneficiaries OF Tariff and revenue
legislation doing bushes" with La
Toilette. and then you will have a
clearer understanding of the Nation
wide movement in the Republican par
ty to defeat LaFollette this fall.