Evening star., 1924-10-28

IA TOILETTE, from some po-
litical practice or
social condition which offended your
sense of justice"
MY political career" he replied,
began when / was elected district
attorney of Dane County, Wis. at the
age of 25, and continued when l was
elected to Congress in 1884.
However my public career might
have ended with the end of my serv-
ice in the House of Representatives. In
1891, except for the fact that in that
year and at that time / had my atten-
ton directed in terrible manner TO
a political practice and a soclal con-
dition that offended my sense OF JUS
tice.
I'm 1891 Senator Sawyer attempted
to bribe me to influence Judge Sic
becker in trying the Wisconsin treas
ury cases which attracted nation
wide attention at the time.
my brother-in-law and former law
partner. Robert @. Siebecker, was
the trial judge, and Senator sawyer
attempted to give me money II
would influence the judges decision
in his favor.
The experience was one or the
most terrible in my life. 1t forced
me to see clearly for the first time
that the evils / had been fighting In
the State and in Congress were not
single. but were related 10 each
other They were part OF a system.
That system was the organized cor
ruption of the American Government
by and for the benefit of great IN
terests.
Calls Home state Clean.
"In Wisconsin,, my home State, to
which 7 first directed my efforts, this
corrupt influence has been broken.
When that was accomplished l en-
tered the United States Senate, ana
the PURPOSE with which 1 set out IN
1891 has been and remains today my
purpose in public life"
will you define sharply the indi-
vidual entity of your party!
by my party l presume is meant
the progressive campaign of 1924,
which is the outgrowth of the pro-
eressive movement in America, par
ticularly in the last decade. There
is at this time no Progressive party.
whether there shall be one is for
the American people to say, and they
will say it by their votes in NoVem-
ber.
"The Government at Washington
has been for a quarter Of century
controlled by small but powerful
and controlling it for their own ben
eft
"In business each of these groups
dictates the production and prices.
In other words, the economic life OF
the Nation has fallen under the con-
troll of monopolies.
Scores Special Privileges.
I'm political life these same monop-
oIies have secured control OF congress
and of the executive departments, and
have found encouragement in the
courts. They have secured special
privileges and have not scrupled to
resort to the outright corrupting of
public officials"
What is the root trouble with the
two old parties?"
.DThe root trouble with the two old
narties is that they are both subserY-
lent to the political and economic
power of the monopolies. The great
monopolies that oppress the american
people never could have come into ex-
istence if the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, in the last 80 years;
ever had enforced the laws vigor-
ously.
"Instead of being crushed, monopoly
grew in power until in 1912 Woodrow
Wilson said: The trusts are our mas
ters now. Our government has been
for the past few years under the con-
troll of the heads OF great allied cor
norations with special interests. We
have come to be one Of the worst
ru1ed one of the most completely con-
trolIed and dominated governments
in the civilized world
Why G. o. p. Was Ousted.
"The Republicans had been hurled
Of hoir "a
of the American people under Taft.
The democrats, promising to rid the
country of monopolies and monopoly
control. broke their promise and did
the will of the interests. In anger the
naonIa nut back the Republicans, only
tn he more shamefully betrayed by
tbe Harding Coolidge administration.
Today the American government is
more completely mastered by the
monopoly interests than It's was IN
|1912"
(which is the less satisfactory-the
-.nuh,icanism of Coolidge or the de-
mocracy of Dav1s!
"Retween the devil and the deep sea,
which does one choose? Coolloge does
not represent the Republican party, If
that party's principles are those laid
down by Lincoln.
"The rank and file of the Republican
ma rty Del1eV0S DIS l/ihSoiiI DSAS SN' ~
the rank and file has been betrayed
hv coolidge and the party bosses
into the hands of the special interests.
"John w. Davis is as remote from
tbe principles of Democracy as ex-
nressed by Thomas Jefferson as Coolidge
is from Lincoln.
"Who was the greater man-Hamil-
ton or Jefferson?'
Jefferson. Hamilton was not. indeed,
q great man in the sense in which the
word is properly used. He was a very
able financier, and that is about all.
Jenerson Is Quoted.
"Jerer.on did not believe in ma
t;onaI debt HO said: I am not for in
creasine the public debt on the prin-
cipIe that it is public blessing.
"I-disagree fundamentally with the
;daas of Hamilton. Here is sample OF
Eam;lton's ideas on politics and gov
ernment: All communities divide them
selves into the few and the many. The
Hrst are rich and we'll born, and the
other the mass Of the people, who sell
dom Judge or determine right
Contrast these ideas Of the Hamilton
school of political Thought with the fol-
lowing propositions of Jefferson: Men
are divided into two parties =.
those who fear and distrust the people
and wish to draw all powers from them
info the hands of a higher class, and
second, those who identity themselves
with the people, have confidence In
them, cherish and consider them as the
most honest and safe.
what, in your judgment, will be the
hrift az governmental policy as popular
II S>1,<s<,o1 . nd uncfaI AducaffoU adva Y1cAa ~