Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-09-12
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Philip Kingsley, in the Chicago
Tribune. saws that Bob LaFollette,
rsndidate for the presidency, appears
m he losing ground in Wisconsin.
He says that Republican strategy
ir getting out the vote on election
gav and the continuous hammering
aWay at the alleged LaFollette attack
mon the constitution will ultimately
Iestroy the Senator's prestige in his
own state.
This is pure suppoSition on the part
of the Tribune correspondent for re-
ports from voters in the state DO mol
bear out the alleged shrinkage of the
IaFollette vote.
Wisconsin voters who are Repubh-
cans have been interviewed by the
Review, and are unanimous IN their
expressions of confidence in the
,enator's strength. In fact the state
i, conceded to belong to him by a
-trong margin, in fact an overwhelm-
ing margin. After a man has been
before his state for twenty-five years
and every year has been successful,
i, is improbable that he can easily be
dislodged by partisan attack.
The same is said of Minnesota and
North Dakota, but reports from vot-
ers of either state do not bear out
kingsley's statements which may be
taken as pure political propaganda
published in a newspaper which Is
VIGOROUSLY anti-LaFollette.
The late Delavan Smith, former
editor of the Indianapolis News, cut
mis- kin off in his will. Now the mem
bers of his family are trying hard to
prove that the editor was insane when
he made his will.
Smith gave evidence of insanity, in
the public mind, when he attacked
theodore Roosevelt through the col
umns of the News many years ago
and brought down upon his head the
ire of the most famous man the ration
has had since Lincoln. Smith was
in deep water when Roosevelt was at
the height of his popularity, and all
but lost out when he literally turned
over the columns of his editorial page
to attacks upon the former president.
The News suffered, very much as
the Chicago Tribune is suffering
through its attacks upon public ofi-
cials which are often unwarranted. =.
just what grounds the relatives VIII
allege insanity is yet to be shown oy
court action. There are sixteen cous-
ins all after a portion of the former
editors inheritance. They will charge
that he was unduly influenced by at
turneys and by his co-workers, some
of whom have benefited by the Will.
The Honorable Andrew Gump, for
mer congressman elect, who by the
way, never assumed his office, is now
candidate for president. His can
didacy has been given an impetus
through the columns of his notable
paper, the Chicago Tribune, and his
creator, Sidney Smith. 1t is said that
all candidates are jealous of Andy,
and are intending to make united
attack upon him in order to prevent
his election.
The candidacy of Gump reminds one
of Artemus Wards opinion of the
candidates of his day. He once said
in lecture that on election day he
went to the polls and deliberately
voted for Henry Clay. This noted
statesman had been dead twenty
years, but Artemus said: 81 voted
Tor Clay because | thought we were
unable to elect a really live statesman
who is worth a continental, and |
thought at least that we should have
first class corpse"
A Los Angeles bandit, Harry J.
Dunlap, was recently convicted in
Ealifnrnia ii uyhInh
aggregated 214 years in the penlten-
tiary. He was convicted by Superior
Judge c. S. Gray on seven counts
alleging robbery. The sentences are
to run consecutively and when the
bandit goes free he will be in another
world very likely. The judge charac-
terized him as the most debased and
desperate criminal ever before him.
What will put stop to lawless-
ness? Just such decisive action as
has been meted out to this notorious
bandit, nothing less. And this must
be followed by a strict carrying out
Of the sentence of the courts. The
time for leniency to criminals is past.
1t is now high time that the DEGREES
Of the courts are carried out to the
letter.
Paper airplanes are the newest in
vention. They are already being test
ed out by the officials at Washington.
The planes are made from paper
composition. They are both econo-
mical and light, also speedy. If found
satisfactory in the tests they will
supercede planes of the present make.
The day of inventions has not
passed. The radio, wireless tele-
graphy, the use of electricity and
other forces in nature are in their in
fancy, and promise in the next gen
Grafton to bring more wonderful
revelations of the powers of the world
than man has hitherto thought posi-
bic.
What will all these marvels Of
science lead to? There is a probab-
llity that if such inventions are fol
lowed up there will be more wonderful
revelations nf tho enipitual world than