The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-10
DAWES HIT
ON BANK
STORY
Butler Challenged BY Senator
- Deny That 'SIush Fund
Is Being Accumulated
BY KENNETH CLARK,
Internatio1nl New service.

ABOARD LA r. % Il j. Ell +
SPECIAL EN- ROUTE TO GIN
CINNATI, Oct. Ito. IA ne W
charge that the Republican party
IS .'intimidating" the American
people to vote for President
Coolidge was hurled today BY
Senator Robert M. La Toilette,
Independent Presidential candi-
date, as he sped through Ohio to
ill q speaking engagement in
Cincinnati tonight.
Hammering verbal rights and
let's at managers Of the Repub-
lean campaign La Toilette de-
clared that ''the use Of money
in doubtful States is only one Of
the methods by which the Re-
! publican National Committees
I and its financial supporters are
/ striving to save their candidate
from utter defeat"
Nation Menaced, He Says.
Far more insidious, far more
corrupt in its ultimate social con-
sequences is the use Of the financial
and economic power Of business in
terests to intimidate and coerce
citizens who are giving their sup
port to the progressive ticket" said
IL Toilette.
4 This pressure is being brought
70 bear upon business men, home
owners, borrowers and employees
upon every class Of citizens whose
economic position enables these
powerful interests to- apply the
thumbscrew.
This question of corruption and
intimidation, he added, goes to
the very heart of the fundamental
B issue of representative government.
/ They are the open manifestations
of the methods by which the pri-
waite monopoly system maintains
control Of the Government.
The only way to halt the spread
Of the monopoly system control,
which is eating out the life and
! soul of the Federal Government and
leading the United states Il. destrllc.
ton, 4 La Toilette said is for the
people to join the progressive move
. ment which he pledged would
drive Wall Street to cover I"
I Aaims Blow at Dawes.
La Toilette also took his first
shot at BFigadier General Charles
G.. Dawes, Republican Vice Presi-
de11tia. candidate, whom he termed
''the former partner Of William
Lorimer, who was conviced by the
Senate Of bribery and ousted from
his seat.
'.That shows how hardened and
how calloused is the Republican
party when it takes the former
partner OF Lorimer and dominates
him to the Vice Presidency" said
La Toilette.
Into the home State Of Former
Attorney General Harry M.
Daugherty, La Toilette pledged
himself, when I am elected Presi-
dent on November / and inaugu-
rated on March 4, never again to
permit Government by injunction"
And the army and the Navy
will not be used to shoot down
strikers, he added.
La Toilette directed attention to
his. foreign policy, which opposes
American entry into the League
OF Nations with the assertion that
no agency to end war; no effec.
!. tive tribunal or court will ever be
constructed or permitted to be
constructed, by or through any
President and any Congress,
owned and controlled by the pres,
ent monopoly system of Govern
mlent.
No Blood For Dollars.
Charging that $4,000, OOO,O 900 Of
American private capital have been
scattered all over the world in
hazardous investments, La Fol.
lette declared:
We ProgressiXes say that these
speculations are subject to the con.
troll of the laws of the country in
which they are made and that we
will not willingly shed one drop
Of blood to insure profits. for their
owners. We are not for peace at
any price, but we will not measure
the price of American lives against
dollars of speculative profits in
foreign Investments
Challenges Butler.
Again La Toilette challenged vii
Ham M. Butler, chairman of the
Republican National Committee, to
deny that a slush fund was being
raised to buy the election
Butler does not meet the charge
that this slush fund was being
raised said La Toilette. "He does
not dispute the assertion that it
was to be used to control the cleo
ton In the doubtful States. He
does mot answer the charge that
the total amount sought was four
or five million dollars"
La Folette's Detroit address at.
tracted the largest crowd that ever
heard a political speech in that city,
the Senator's manager announced
today. More than 5000 persons
TANNED into the ball to hear La
Fellette excoriate the Harding Cool
ldge administration and predict that
he would would win the three-co.
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