The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-02
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HAS.HARD
FIGHT
All Of La Toilette Forces and
Unions Battling to Win in
Illinois Campaign.

CHICAGO, April From the
national standpoint the most spec
stacular and significant thing that
is happening in the politics Of
this great central State Of Illinois
today is the determined drive by
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
to defeat Senator Mccormick of
Illinois for reelection and to
bring La Toilette northwestern
radicalism southwark across the
Wisconsin line and eastward across
the Mississippi river into the CEN
trail industrial region Of the coun
try.
Prominent as Vet.
The person whom through the La
Toilette movement 10 thus battling
to extend the area Of its empire Is
Newton Jenkins, a mild-mannered
and velvet.voiced young lad of
thirty-six who is the attorney in
Chicago Of the American Farm Blu
reau Federation, and who served
with distinction in the Fifth regi-
ment of devil dogs" on the st.
Mihiel salient near Verdun during
the war.
Prominent now as a legionnaire
and equally prominent as a radical,
Jenkins Is running for the Repub-
lican nomination for United States
Senator with precisely the same
forces behind him which recently
have sent to Washington the radical
Senator Dill, from Washington, the
radical Senator Wheeler from Mon.
tana, the radical Senator Frazier
from North Dakota, the radical
Senators Shipstead ana johnson
from Minnesota, and the radical
Senator Brookhart from Iowa, all
looking up to La Toilette as their
great leader and all backed most
particularly in their campaign activ-
tiles by the organized resources Of
the railroad trade unions.
The Jenkins candidacy in Illinois
is the first great full-dress invasion
of a central State by the La Fol-
lette railroad trade union aggressive
political forces flushed by their
Northwestern victories.
The outcome will be of decisive
national importance.
If Jenkins gets a large vote La
Toilette radicalisrn will be seen
encourag ed to persevere on an East
ward march into Indiana, Ohio, New
York.
II Jenkins is crushed. La Follette
radicalism win feel itself for a
while thrust back into the North.
western prairies.
The highest authorities in the Re.
publican party here claim that
Jenkins will be crushed fiat.
The Jenkins supporters, on the
other hand. point out that Nc
Cormick voted for the Esch.C Cum
mins railroad transportation law
and also for the seating Of Senator
Newberry Of Michigan, and they al.
lege with approximate truth that
no Senator who voted for the Esch
Cummins law and for Newberry has
ever yet failed to get defeated when
confronted by a candidate backed
officially by the La Toilette rail.
road trade union machine.
Really Test Case.
All the well-known cogs of that
machine are turning now for the
first time in Illinois. 1t 10 q test
case to determine whether La Fol
lette can become national or must
remain sectional.
La Toilette, from his sick bed In
Washington, has issued a sterr
manifesto, which is being circulated
throughout Illinois and which ex
communicates Mccormick from the
ranks Of the true believers In pro
gressivism and condemns him to tn,
status Of a conservative and reac
tionary and servant Of the specia
interests"
Warren S. Stone, grand chief o
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, and himself chief enKinee
OF the whole railroad trade lriiol
political movement, has Cispatche,
into Illinois from his l1eadduarter
at Cleveland, Ohio, an exhortation I,
all his followers. here to vote asains
Mccormick and also, incidentally. L
vote against Ex-Governor Deneer
who is likewise running for the Re
/ publican nomination for Unite,
states Senator
"Wrecking Crew" Busy.
Mr.. stone has also sent here som
veteran members Of what Is jocu
larry called his "wrecking crew"
This "wrecking crew" consists Q
| gentlemen who go happily fror
State to state destroying and defeai
ing United States Senators VIII
voted for the Esch. cummins trans
portation law which established tn
Railroad Labor BOaS6, which tn
railroad trade upions' DO not like.
One nianabaf Of this "wreckln