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


of executive committee in charge of
this district.
In considering the candidacy Of
any candidate for president Of the
United States we should first of all
consider whether or not he is q true
American; whether or not he has at
heart, the ideals upon which this gov
ernment was founded and the ideals
for which American men and women
have given their lives through gene
ration after generation; whether Or
not he will be true to that most sac
red oath Of our Nation, the inaugural
oath of its president; or on the 9TH
er hand whether he is merely q cam
didate for his own personal gain, the
love Of power and sef-desire and the
plaudits of dissolute rabble.
In considering as to whether or not
candidate can qualify under any of
the foregoing requirements we can
not seriously consider the things that
the candidate will promise or what
he may say he will do If elected. That
is, we can only judge the man, not
by his words, but rather by his ac-
tions. II we were to believe and
accept for truth all Of the things
that have promised in any political
campaign the public would long ago
have reduced itself to sackcloth and
ashes. Rather the American people
have long ago learned that it is not
what the candidate promises for the
future that we are interested in but
truly, the things which he has done
In the past. 50
Let us consider what candidate La
Toilette has done in the past. IF we
should consider only the war record
of Candidate LaFollette it is evident
that the same must entirely disquali-
fy him from any gift from the Amer
ican people and most Of all the gift
Of being president Of our nation. Ro-
bert NJ. LaFollette is the same man
he was in 1917 and we must not for
get it. If he was right during the
war, he is right now. These men,
the crew of open and secret sympa-
thizers with our enemies during the
war, the paid propagandists and the
alien plotters against US, whose hero
he was then, are all cheering him To-
day. If LaFollette was q patriotic
American in 1917, then Woodrow W,l-
son, Theodore Roosevelt and every
gallant boy who died for us across
the sea, were not. If LaFolletse was
right, then every man of US who be-
lieved in the cause of America was a
weak and deluded simpleton. Argue
If you like, that the war was not the
knightly crusade we thought it was,
but America was on the firing line.
Her fate as q nation at stake. Her
youth, her ideals, her every hope of
q free existence were in the balance.
He was not with her but against her.
Where was he ? Barking at our heels.
ready with words Of comfort for our
enemies and none of encouragement
for US. His voice and his power in
congress were used to hamper our
every effort. He has neve: excused
i1is ttions nor repented them. Wilson
and Roosevelt are in their graves.
ThoMs DE- of lads who died IN France
are still sleeping in the faith that
sent them there. The men and wo-
men who believed in these men, these
lads who have given their lives, still
believe that they did their duty. No
thing can change them in this and
their faith in America and tha right
eousness Of her cause will never be
changed. LaFollette does not ask that
we forget and forgive, rather he asks
that we justify him in his past. True
he might have thought that the wal
was not justified and representing
the people in Wisconsin in our SEN
ate, he had the privilege and right
to vote against our entering the war
But after war had actually been de-
clared, it was then his most sacred
duty to lend his full hearted and en-.
tire support to everything which couli
| be done to bring the war to success.
| full conclusion and justify The faitl
of the men who fought it out for u,
and sacrificed their very lives.
A glance at the war record of La