The daily worker., 1924-08-15
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Wisconsin" Nor will the great "pro
gressive" leader find time to tell how
he has fought labor candidates in the
past and how he is now backing those
denounced by the workers as their
enemies.
Multi-millionaires LaFoIIette's Angels.
When Senator LaFollette made his
debut in public life, millionaire
lumber magnate, Stephenson, was his
leading angel Altogether, Mr.
Stephenson furnished about FIVE hun
dred thousand dollars toward putting
LaFollette in the front row at the ma
tional political theater in Washington.
In return for this generous and IAN
gelic" support, the trust-busting La
Toilette later did his bit toward put
ting this multi-millionaire in the
United States Senate. While Isaac
Stephenson was getting LaFollette's
support in 1907, he played in the lum-
ber industry the role that Hartman
used to play in the railroad world 1t
will also be recalled that the ring of
Stephenson's money was heard thru
out the investigation of the notorious
Lorimer scandal in the Senate.
Senator LaFollette's record shows
unfailing kindness to his political IAN
gels" In 1922 E. ]. Gross was chair
man of the Wisconsin Progressive AS
sociation charged with providing the
money and securing the votes for the
then approaching LaFollette campaign
At the same time Mr.. Gross was reg
istered as a FILLED milk" lobbyist.
One of the chief supporters of the
Wisconsin Senator today is Mr. W. T.
Rawleigh, President of the w. T. Raw
leigh Company of Freeport, Illinois,
with a capital and resources of more
than thirteen million dollars. Mr..
Rawleigh employs thousand work
ers and has factories also at Memphis
and Winnipeg. Besides being the
president of the largest proprietary
product concern in the world, Mr..
Rawleigh owns an interest in the
Capital Times published at Madison,
Wisconsin.
In declaring his allegiance to LaFol-
lette Mr.. Rawleigh laid down an cleo
tion policy which affords every work
ing man much food for thot and still
more cause for action. He declared:
What the business men of the United
States want now, more than anything
else, is a free, open, and competitive
market in which to buy their raw ma
terials and supplies, and the oppor-
tunity to buy, sell, and compete on an
equal basis in the greatest producing
and consuming market in the world" !"
In climbing up the rungs of the ladder
leading to the heaven Of LaFollette's
angels, we find a certain Richard w.
Wolfe, formerly president of the Cook
County Real Estate Board, and an old
time democrat. Why Mr.. Wolfe backs
LaFollette is told by him in this fash
ion: "As a conservative business man,
and tax-paying citizen, am in favor
of Robert M. LaFollette for president.
He is not radical, in the correct
sense of the term. He is rather a
cautious, prudent, and constructive
statesman"
After LaFollette was nominated for
the presidency, his progressive" CO.
horts secured the country far and
wide for running mate. Finally,
Wheeler was put forward. But IL was
not until Wheeler had received tele-
gram from Frank A. Vanderlip, former
president Of the National City Bank,
and a director of shipping, railroad.
realty, rubber corporations, and en-
ployers associations, that he agreed to
accept the vice-presidential nomina-
ton. Mr.. Wheeler's comment on the
Vanderlip telegram is rather enlight-
ening. LaFollette's running-mate then
said: well, II seems that have been
drafted for service. I'll agree"
An examination of the personnel of
the "LaFollette for President Commit
tee reveals an Illuminating list of