The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-10
RACE TO BE RUN
 BY LAFOLLETTE
 AS INDEPENDENT
Wisconsin Senator Orders Name Withheld From
 Convention
By THOMAS l.. STOKES 1 By Leased Wire to Age.HeraId. ]

WASHINGTON, June 9s-SenatoF LAFollette, breaking away definitely, has ordered that his name be withheld from the republican convention at Cleve- land. At the same time he urges his | followers to make bold and uncompro- missing fight in the convention for prin- ciples for which they stand, which, he says, express the preponderant senti- ment of the mass of the common people of this country"
 LaFollette's order amounts to a vir- tual announcement of his independent candidacy for President, in view of the losing battle-fIis workers face at Cleve- land. It is carried in a letter to Gov. John J. Blaine of Wisconsin, his ardent champion. and chairman of the Wis consin delegation, made public here on the eve of the convention's opening Tuesday.
 Ut is my express wish that in the republican national convention assem- bling June 10, my name be not placed in nomination, LaFollette wrote in d letter sent last Saturday.
 T request further that the progress sive delegates elected by the people of Wisconsin concentrate all their energies upon obtaining the adoption of the plat form of progressive principles, which received an overwhelming indorsement in the April primary"
 Must Uphold Principles
 'The principles upon which you have been elected express the prepondefant sentiment of the mass of the common people of this country. Those princi- ples are in thorough harmony with the traditions of the republican party and with the institutions of representative government. They must not be sac rificed or surrendered
 In cutting clear personally from the republican convention, LaFollette de- cisively opens the way for rallying about an independent standard those followers of his in the convention who opened losing fight Monday for the principles for which he stands.
 You are, of course, aware" he wrote to Blaine, "that while the voters of Wisconsin have done me the honor of electing delegates who have cast their votes for me as candidate for the re- publican nomination for President every four years since 1908, have not, in fact, been a candidate since 1916, and my name has not, since that year, been formally presented to a republican national convention.
 Although my name was not filed in presidential primaries in Wisconsin or elsewhere, nevertheless, the voters of Wisconsin in the recent primaries instructed 2S of the % delegates to cast their votes for me in the nonnina- tion of a candidate for president. One delegate was pledged to President Coolidge.
 Realizes Odds
 Commenting on the fight of his fol- lowers which got under steam Mon day, La Toilette said he realizes that the progressives in this convention will face terrific odds"
 You must remember, however, that regardless of the numbers arrayed against you, the membership of the republican party in majority of the states is progressive and that you will be the spokesmen in this convention of millions of progressive republicans throughout the nation, who have had no voice in the election of a majority of the convention delegates.
 "The American people will look to the delegates from Wisconsin, and to such other progressives as may hold seats in the convention, for a bold and uncompromising fight on behalf of the fundamental principles to which you are pledged.
 Some may say that out of con sideration for party harmony, and in- asmuch as the progressives appear to be in a minority in the convention, no (Continued on Page EwO.)