Evening star., 1922-06-11
COLLEGE HEAD GIVES
La TOILETTE FIGHT
Wisconsin Republicans Score Sen.
ator on War Record in Naming
Opponent.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 10-In
choosing DR.. W. A. Garfield. president
OF Carroll College, Waukesha, to op-
pose Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette
for the republican nomination for
senator. the delegates to the state
republican conference feel they have
picked a champion, who will keep
the senior senator busy from now
until the primary in September. 1t is
admitted that Senator La Toilette is
the most difficult of all the radical
candidates to defeat. The choice of
Dr. Garfield has served to stifTen the
backbone of opposition.
DR.. Garfield only recently returned
to Wisconsin from Danville. KY.
where he was president of Center
College during the era when that
school developed the great foot ball
team that defeated Harvard and
others of the big gridiron teams.
Attorney William ]. Morgan was
chosen to be the candidate for gov
ernor against John J. Blaine. incum-
bent. who carries the La Toilette in
dorsement. 1t was Morgan who, two
years ago. inaugurated the fight
against non-partisan league domina-
tion of state politics by quitting
Blaine. after Blaine had received the
league Endorsement, and advocating
r. B. Mccoy. democrat, who declared
against the league.
Enforcement Of President.
The conference indorsed the ad-
mnistration of President Harding.
Senator I. l. Lenroot telegraphed his
good wishes.
The platform. aimed at La Toilette,
denounces 'dictatorial bosses" 1t
scores candidates who falsely parade
under the party name. demands
prosecution of war profiteers and in
dorses a soldiers bonus.
I'VE charge that Senator Robert
NJ. La Toilette was not true to his
country in the time of it's extreme
need and peril; that he failed to act
that by his public utterances and
open opposition to participation In
the world war he has shown himself
unfit to represent Wisconsin," the
resolutions say.
Gov. Blaine's permission to Kate
Richards O'Hare, convicted socialist t
leader, to speak in the capitol build
ing at Madison was scored as shame
full and american" Fully half the
delegates were former La Toilette
men, who quit the senator's leader
ship on war issues.
support Of Socialist.
Victor L. Berger, socialist leader,
has stated that he believes no social
list candidate should be placed in the
field. If the Berger plan is adopted
some 10000 socialist votes will go to
La Toilette. In return, Berger. who
is a candidate for Congress in the
fifth Milwaukee district, will receive
the votes of La Toilette men. Berger
was refused his seat on his last cleo
ton.
Gov. Blaine is alleged to have mani
tested too much firendliness to the
vets to vetisfy the La toilette drys.
1t Is saia that the senator is having
some trouble keeping order in his
camp. Some Of the drys demanded
that Blaine be omitted from the slate
of candidates to be supported by La
Toilette. If this was not done they
are said to have threatened a rival
candidacy. The vets are SO discon-
tented that they are talking Of nomi-
mating District Attorney w. C. label
of Milwaukee for governor.
On prohibition the La Toilette cam
paign policy has been neutral. 1t
was illustrated by the attitude of the
2te James Thompson who. when
Campaigning for United States sena
tor under the La Toilette banner two
years ago, refused to tell hecklers
where he stood. Though that policy
Is believed to have cost THOMPSON
the election, the La Toilette cam
paigners have not seen their way
clear to declare themselves any more
definitely, and the result is that both
vets and drys are unhappy.