, 1924-10-29

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1855; now in his SEVENTEEN year.
2. Admitted to the practice of
law forty-four years ago.
8. Became governor of Wisconsin
twenty-three years ago; was re-
elected twice and resigned in 1905
upon his election to the United
States senate, where ne has since
served continuously except for
lengthy absences during the last
session, due to the feeble health of
extreme age.
4. LaFollette has dominated state
government in Wisconsin since 1901
and his personal machine has been
in control of governmental agencies.
During the twenty-three years of his
control taxes have increased 423
per cent and property assessments
have increased 235 per cent. Dur
ing the same period the Wisconsin
population has increased % per cent.
Average wages paid in Wisconsin
at this time are lower than wages
paid in neighboring states.
5. LaFollette sponsored the Nom
partisan league which in North Da-
Kota caused an increase of 400 per
cent in taxes in one year; forced
fi%fty-three private banks out of en-
istence; added 1900, 900 to the
states bonded Indebtedness in one
year; established a state bank that
collapsed with a loss of more than
81. 900 900 to individual depositors.
6. When the United States senate
voted rs to 5 to endorse President
Wilson's severing of diplomatic re-
%lations with Germany, LaFollette
was one of the five opposing such
endorsement.
Z. LaFollette spoke in the senate
against permitting the President to
arm vessels flying the United States
flag.
s. LaFollette spoke and voted
against the selective service act.
I (the draft)
10. LaFollette spoke and voted
against application of the selective
service in the aviation service.
II. LaFollette defended the sink
ing by a German submarine of the
Lusitania, in which hundreds of
Americans were killed, and denounc-
ed the entry of the United States
into the World war. Those utter
ances were made in a speech de-
livered in. st. Paul, September 20,
1917.
-. LaFollette's st. Paul speech
resulted in a demand by the Min
nesota Committee of Public Safety
that he be expelled from the United
States senate "as a teacher of dis
loyalty and sedition giving aid and
comfort TO our enemies and hinder
ing the government in the conduct
of the war"
+ 13. A committee of the senate
examined the speech and listened
to charges that LaFollette's conduct
menaced the successful prosecution
of the war, but he was permitted
to retain his seat.
Ia. LaFollette's speeches and ac-
t~ivities caused the late Theodore
Roosevelt to denounce him repeated
ly as the most dangerous man in
America. Colonel Roosevelt said:
HE is the worst enemy of demo-
cracy alive today-and American
who represents the worst of Amer
lean characteristics. Senator La
Toilette is not a new type; once we
called such as he 'copperheads.'"
Is. LaFollette's ~dis1oyalty dur
ing the war caused the Wisconsin
Republican State Central committee
to unanimously demand his expul-
sion from the senate for treason
able and seditious utterances" and
for "disloyalty to our government"
16. The Wisconsin State Council
of Defense and seventy-one county
defense councils called upon him to
resign from the senate and asked
the senate to expel him if he re-
fused to retire.
II. In S~heboygan, Wisconsin, he
was hung in effigy as a traitor.
10. The Wisconsin Legislature
adopted resolutions formally censur-
ing him.
10. During the creation of the
Republican protective tariff law now
in effect, LaFollette voted against
or refused to support e~ighty-six of
the ninety items upon which agri-
culture and workers are dependent.
20. LaFollette refused to support
the Japanese Exclusion act.
81. The tactics of the bloc of
radicals led by LaFollette in Con
gress prevented the enactment of
legislation needed for the benefit o.:
the country.
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