Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-10-31
LA TOILETTE CAMP
PREDICTS TRIUMPH
FOR PR0GRESSIVES
By JOSEPH A. WISE
STAFF Correspondent International
Labor News Service

man Is Congressman John NJ. NetseA
= Wisconsin. national manager e
the campaign. tie has been all smile
fer dayS past and eNu0es optimism +
and good cheer.
He Vas . sey serious man WI
seldom smiled when he opened the |
headquarters here several weeks az. +
Al he hoped tor the progressive /
forces Al that lime was 10 throw The +
presidential election into the Con |
gfess and Il elect 4 sufficient number |
Of members Of that body TO be abe /
TO control the situation. All is change /
nov. and Congressman Nelson is nov |
looking forward 10 the probable elee
ton Of Senators l2Follette an
Wheeler.
Recent events warrant such an opt |
mis,ie view Of the situation. VIII
that "R2d Man OF the Wicked Noun
tains,s Smith ". BrookhaIt, shooting
up the Republican camp over in Iowa
with George ". Norris kicking Owe
the q. o. p. wigwam out in Nebraska
and that two-gun man, HI johnson,
threatening 10 70 into action with
both hands on the Pacific Coast, there
is every ieasop for Joy among ne
LaFollette- Wheeler big chiefs.
Fires Biz Gun at G.. q, Z. Manager
Harold l.. lckes. who was Illinois
manager Of Senator Johnson's pres.
Dental primary campaign last spring
wheeled out his old cannon the Other
day, loaded it up with horseshoes,
broken bottles and rusty nails, took
careful aim and fired the whole work
at the Nriglev building, where VII
liam NJ. Butler, Coolidge national
manager, holds sway. The shot was
heard all over Illinois, If not else.
where, and Is expected TO do great
damage 10 the Coolidge Dawes IN.
terests in this state. Johnson polled
mere than $4,000 votes in the pit
mary election in Illinois. The lckes
broadside is regarded as only the pre-.
| liminafy barrage preceding the main
attack BY the Johnson forces.
bob" to Win Many States
The LaFollette- Wheeler chieftains
here are confidently predicting that
they will carry New Jersey, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Nevada, California,
Oregon and Washington. They also
say that they have better than an
even chance in Ohio, Illinois, Colo
RADIO and Arizona. They are further
more forecasting that Senator LaFol-
lette'S swing around the circle taken
together with other important eN-
peeted developments, will add several
other large states to the LaFollette-
Wheeler column.
| can't help but compare my first
interview with Congressman Nelson
with the one have just had with him.
At the first interview, late in July, he
had two small connecting rooms in the
| Morrison Hotel. He and Ma Mel
son, kindly, efficient, typical country
woman, devoid of style and city ways,
quarters and the other room as an
office.
Found Nelson's "Plain Folks"
| arrived at the hotel at 1880 in the
evening to interview the leader of the
progressive bloc in the lower house
of Congress. was told that he was
at dinner. The Congressman and
MA" did not put in an appearance
until 8 o'clock The fact that they
had taken so long to dine led me TO
believe that perhaps they were IN
clined to be swanky. but one look at
them dissipated such an idea. They
were Just plain folks-the kind OF
people | had known as boy on my
| grandmother's farm in Northwestern
Ohio.
They invited me in, and ma" ex-
planned that they had been out in
| T. Dali utha,n M Nalcnn had
been pitching horseshoes, which was
his only way of getting exercise.
Mrs. Nelson Washes Face
Before sitting down to talk with
me in the little "office," which was
equipped with desk and two or three
chairs. Mr.. Nelson turned to his wife
and said:
ma, your face is dirty; you had
better go and wash it,
Grant Park is a wind-blown and
dusty place, which accounted for
MAS" dirty face, and the Congress
mans face was dirty, too, but Ma"
retired and left US to talk politics.
We had been talking for a half or
three-quarters of an hour when Ma
came out of the bedroom and said:
ia, II Is llfilS LOT YOU 10 Bo W
bed. You know you have to take an
early train for Washington" !
That cut short the interview and |
left. Mr.. Nelson was gone for sew
eral days, while Mrs. Nelson remained
behind and supervised the work of
employees in other rooms at head
quarters.
Office Today Far Different
That seems ages ago. Today when
| went up to see Mr.. Nelson he was
behind a big and we'll ordered desk
in one of the largest rooms in the
Morrison Hotel, surrounded by click
ing typewriters, with sub-chiefs and
messengers hurrying in and out Of
the room. All was orderly hustle and
hustle, with the LaFollette- Wheeler
national manager wearing a radiant
smile.
Elect Edward +. Poorman as your
congressman and he will serve you