The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-10-30

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of the war measures shows that La
Toilette either voted directly against
most of them or else evaded straight
declaration by voting mot present" !"
That is, refusing to vote.
It is true that "by ones friends
may we know him." it is true that
birds of feather flock together. We
have said that the enemies OF our
country during the war were the
friends and are now the friends of
LaFollette and that they are The ones
who are cheering him on today. Lest
We forget while his friends are prom
ising us fulfillment of impossible
dreams, let us consider who are the
friends of Robert N. LaFollette.
He was nominated by Socialist
picked gathering, not a convention
of representative American people
gathering together in convention af-
ter having been chosen in primaries
or by the choice of their home folks.
He was nominated by motley gath
ering of the most radical. socialistic
and communistic men and women
within our land today. These are
facts and can not be disputed. he
did not submit his candidacy to the
American people, despite the fact that
he processes q desire to give the peo-
pie more voice in their government.
Many states were holding primaries
but he did not offer his name in but
two of them. His delegates had no
nomination from the American peo-
pie. They were self-appointed. His
convention was, in fact, virtually Gn
adjourned meeting of q conference
in st. Louis, Missouri, which conycn-
tion was convention of profession
al agitators, Socialists and Commun-
lists, each man with his special hob
by such as public ownership of all
public utilities and industries, q pro-
gram of State Socialism, the destruc-
ton Of our courts, the abolition of
injunction in any labor disputes by
legalixing of the right of agricul-
tural and industrial strikes and the
guarantee of government funds for
their organization and immunity from
legal action growing out Of strikes,
the creation of . government corpor-
alton, the destruction of the Federal
Reserve banking system, the practical
abolition of our present army and
navy prohibiting military service or
training in any form. The actual
call for his convention was issued by
the st. Louis convention of radicals
and socialists. That was the origin
of LaFollette's nomination. Did it
come from the American ,people?
Was it the result of popular de-
mand? Who are his henchmen? Big
Bill Haywood, leader of the 1. w.
VS., Morris Hillquith, international
IN ~ kh~
so on down the line.
LaFollette claims to be progrn0G
sive, yet it may well be saji nat
rather than being q progressive, he
is the traditional wolf in a sleeps
clothing. He would fill the shoes Of
our beloved Roosevelt, not by the
choice Of those who subscribed to
the principles Of our Roosevelt but
by his own appointment only. He is
flatly and entirely denied by all Of
the supporters of Theodore Roose-
welt and the Progressive party who
have ever taken national leadership
in connection Herewith and such q
denial has been actually signed by
these parties. Rather than Progress
sive he is entirely destructive. We can
not tear down our Constitution which
has lived through the centuries with
out offering in its place something
that we know is basic and funda-
mentally in accord with our national
ideals. We can not do away with our
courts, we can not deprive our citi-
zens Of the right to engage in indus
try and business in competition to
each other by putting the control of
all business in the hands Of the gov
ernment and making the Federal gov.
ernment competitor to you and me.
In conclusion LaFollette can not be
supported by those who believed in
prohibition as LaFollette has ever
been the candidate of the vets. He
has always been the friend of Wiscon-
sin brewers and has even so express
ed himself by his vote and in his
speeches.
He can not be supported. by the
farmer who considers the result OF
his vote, for LaFollette would take
our railroads, our transportation IA.
ciIities, from the hands Of privats
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