Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-18

consistently and safely cast it lot II
the November eleetioH-ttat is IN tie
newly organized independent party =
Robert NJ. LaFoiletle.
He, more than any other candidate.
represents me policies Of Organize
Labor. He Is vel known. and a.
man he has reser swersed from his
determined policy of striking bise
after blow Al the very interests whiea
Labor has recognized al it enemies.
LaFollette will be maligned By the
Republican pres he viii be grossly
misrepresented His policies and
platform will be confused with bot
sbevism By press which Is more in
tent upon electing Calvin Coolidge
than it is to impart the truth to lis
I readers
Already the metropolitan press and
is satellites. the small county dailies,
which are dedicated to the Republican
party, have begun campaign Of
deliberate misrepresentation Of La
Follette's policies. They will con-
tinue this vein Of publicity until the
results Of the November election are
announced. The only hope the La
Toilette camp has is that they will
overdo their attack, and that the pub
lie will get wise to the deception in
time to meet the issue directly at the
polls.
Ii has become an axiom that a Ger
tain Chicago paper has so alienated
the confidence of the public that its
columns are taken as an adverse
political barometer The paper was
anti-Wilson, Prohibition, anti
Small, anti-Thompson, and all won
decisive victories. is easy to over
do publicity of a certain kind, particu-
larly when editors approach the
masses as ignorant and stupid people,
unable to think for themselves or to
grasp a close point in reasoning.
Small town dalies have already
commenced telling the public of the
"disgraceful flaws" in the LaFollette
platform. They are deliberately lead
ing voters already to think that So
cialism is lining up with the indie
pendent party. They are pointing out
that LaFolette is dreamer, poll
teal demagogue intent upon wrecking
business and enthroning bolshevism.
All this must be taken with grain of
salt, or looked upon as the mouth
ings of men who are in a rut of think
| ing and are unable to apprehend the
upward trend of modern political
policies.
They charge that LaFolette has
never done anything but talk. They
want man who does things. The
same might have been said of Patrick
Henry, Charles G. Sturgeon, Wen
| del Phillips or Daniel Webster. The
rtsUc -ofrrtJe has sss.ssss
ingly is the thorn in the flesh of the
Republican and Democratic politi-
clans who are welded to the inter
ests. They want him to keep still
and say nothing,
The slave holders would like to
have silenced the tongue of Wendell
Phillips. Congress would have been
greatly pleased if Daniel Webster
had suddenly lost his power of speech,
and England would have rejoiced if
its tory statesmen could have
gagged Patrick Henry. But all of
these men talked so inspiringly that
other men worked. 1t is one thing
to be worker; it is entirely another
thing to be an orator and set con-
tinent to working.
And by the way what chance has
Robert M. LaFollette had to show
what he might do under favorable cir
cumstances? Congress has hindered
him as ii hindered Roosevelt until
President Mckinley was assassinated.
Then America saw the driving force
of Theodore Roosevelt in action. The
nation will get work enough out of
its executive if LaFollette is elected
president.
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