The Washington times., 1922-05-30

II ! came here and found that
the La Toilette people We're calling
themselves sane stalwartS" |
would conclude that Stalwartism
was popular in Wisconsin and that
La Toilette stood "A good chance or
getting defeated When now | see
stalwarts willing TO imply that the
only difference between them and
La Toilette Is that they are for
progressivism and that he is crazy,
for IL, | conclude that progressivism
must be popular here and that the
chances of defeating La Toilette are
not so good. And this conclusion
seems 10 be possibly correct.
! lunChed today at the Madison
Club, which expelled Robert Marion
La Toilette from it's membership
during the war because OF his Htti-
tude toward the war. / nave talked
with business people and professional
people here who signed memorials
during the war for eXpelling Robert
Marion La Toilette for just about
everything TO which he might hal
pen at the moment to belong. In
this city OF Madison. which Is La
Eollettes home city. the business ole
said to contain a majority against
him. But | have not yet neard any
body say that La Toilette was eN.
tremely likely TO be expelled from
the United States Senate at the Wis.
consin Republican Senatorial prl.
mary next September. ! think that
the state OF mind OF La FollettC's
enemies is that it IL their patriotic
bounden duty to try to defeat La
Toilette and they are going TO go
through with their duty.
La Toilette made strong enemies
as well as strong friends III WisCOn-
sin by his attitude towl.d the war.
He has made enemies as well as
friends by his attitude toward pI
hibition. The Anti-SalOon League is
expected to spend a great deal OF
money in ways which both directly
and indirectly will be an effOr; to
take votes from La Toilette in case
his opponent, who is not We. selected
should be a dry. Also there are peo
pie who with some justice feel that
La Toilette has been TOO bitter, and
too savage in his ContTL"prSi CS with
them or their friends. But these ar
guments against him are now for al
least few moments cast quite into
the background by n new argument
which has led to arranging OF a
great. convention of delegates from
every part of Wisconsin to meet in
Milwaukee next Thursday. This
new argument is to the effect that
La Toilette is not a great menace
TO what?-Some of his colleagues in
the Senate will be surprIised-and
l.. L. Ia. II
lette Is a great menace to the Demo
cratic popular government.
Yes. He will not let the people
rule He tramples them down. lie
comes out here to Wise OnSin from
Washington and he sets down with
n few OF his friends and he makes
up slate of candidates for COVER.
nor and attorney general and State
treasurer and so on, and the People
have nothing to say about II and he
puts this State out as tho progress
sive State for the people to accept
in the Republican primary, and there
you are! The people are power .pSs.
But bark. What Is that? That C!at
ter of hoofs in the distance? II is
the same progressives-the former
talwarts-ha stening up to rescue
the people from under Ia Foilette's
heel and aspiring to convey to the
people not only the right to vote on
candidates IN the regular November
election and not only the right to
vote on the nominating Of Candi-
dates in the preceding September
primary, but also the new and ad-
ditional and perfecting right of vot-
ing on the slate.making.
Caucuses have been held al over
Wisconsin. Voters have come to
these CauCuses. The caucus as an
institution has been revived. Indig-
nant citizens-indignant against La
Toilette and unpopular Government
have assembled in their several
counties at the call of State COM
mittee called the committee OF
forty-four. County by county they
have elected delegates till now 1t
is claimed that they have elected
more than 1000 of them. These
delegates will now in a few hours
+ be on their way to Milwaukee.
There they will meet and make a
slate OF candidates for United
States Senator. for governor, for
| lieutenant governor, for attorney
general, for State treasurer, and
for secretary of State.
JOHNSON TO CONTINUE