The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

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Gitlow presidential campaign and oths
er branches turnout the country have
responded literally. vi
of government officials" For the lats
ter innovation the capitalists would
be grateful to LaFollette, as clean
government is more immune to criti4i
cism than the kind in vogue in Washs3
ington during the Wilson and HardS
ing administrations and all preceding
administrations if the truth were told
The capitalists are interested I'M
"clean government" and honest offid
Gals, because the capitalists are tha
losers. Whether the. officials in con-
troll of the capitalist government arel
honest or crooked. the exploitation Of
the workers goes on just the same.4
AS for restoring our constitutional
rights, necessity knows no law and.
the capitalist class will only grant the
workers such rights as they must
The only guarantee the workers can
have that their constitutional rights /
will be respected is their organized
might, industrially and politically.l
And only when the workers are in slDti
preme control and the capitalist sys~i
tenn is on its way to the limbo of his
tory will they have a real guaranteed !
that their constitutional rights will be
safe, because they will then have writ.
ten their own constitution.
THE Republican Party chief fear
L that long speeches over the radio
will interfere with the bedtime stor-
les. We do not know of anything ex.
cept perhaps heavy blow on the
back of the head, more conducive to
slumber than a speech by Calvin
Coolidge. If His Silence should be
given the pineapple next November,
he could proftably turn his dullness
into money by becoming the great
anti-insomnia Coue of America. A lit
tie talk over the radio every evening
would either drive the insomniacs in
sane or send them flying for relief
into the arms of Morpheus. II
n IL those who have dollars pres,
n pare to shed them now. The,
Sage of Wisconsin may have suffered
from Justification of his pineal glands
but his emotions are working over
time. In testimony thereof we place
on the witness stand Mr.. Lawrence
Todd, Washington correspondent of
the Federated Press. We cannot say
whether Mr.. Todd's lachrymal con-
Quits suffered from the strain of carry
ing away the food which the good re-
porter must have shed in harmony
with the waterspout of Senator LaFol-
lette but when you hear the tale, you
may shed them, too, so get your gut
tiers ready.
livery story starts somewhere, and
- lest this introduction like pro-
logue to Shavian play should become
so interesting that the tale should
suffer in consequence, we will intro
duce the yarn. The words are by
Lawrence Todd. LaFollette is at the
megaphone. Name of the photog-
rapher is unknown. The actresses are
| members of the women's national
campaign committee. The scene is in
LaFollette's Washington office. The
leading lady, Mrs. Glenn Plumb, sup
ported by an all-star cast. LaFollette
before getting his players into action
told the women that the Republican
Party was born in Wisconsin in the
year 1854 in a schoolhouse, sponsored
by a group no larger than was stand
ing in front Of him. Then Mrs. Glenn
Plumb brought on the onion, and the
eyelids began to culver.
n PoORLY-DRESSED WOMAN OF
n sixty years came into the office
Of the Chicago LaFollette campaign
committee one day recently, said Mrs.
Plumb, offering campaign contribu-
ton of one dollar. She was in such
evident need that an attempt was made
to induce her to keep the money but
she stood like a rock of Gibraltar
against all attempts to force the dol
lar on her. Her family had been
burned out in Nebraska and she came
TO Chicago where she is employed
scrubbing toilets at S1400 a week.
She would work for another ten years
and then the country would take care
Of her. She was sorry that LaFollette
had not come along in national poll
tics before this so that herself and
many others would be saved from suf-
fering "on that spirit the fight can
be won" said the candidate. This ia
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