The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-10-10
REPUBLICAN Guns
BATTER "BOBISM"
Chairman Butler Calls on
Americans to Save Their
Constitution.

heaVy guns OF tHe hepuDllcan ma
tional campaigners were turned on
Senator LaFollette and his candidacy
during the past week, with telling eff
feet. Following up General Dawes
bold invasion of LaFollette territory
and his emphatic speech in Milwaukee,
National Chairman Butler issued a
statement in which he coined the new
Republican slogan, Save the Consti-
tuition" He declared the socialist
Third party" under the leadership of
LaFollette, has thrust upon the nation
a new doctrine which swould over
throw "the gospel of our national ex-
istence."
Mr.. Butler picked for the basis of
his statement the plank in the LaFol-
lette platform which would give con-
gress authority to override decisions
by the Supreme court.
IF power under the Socialist-Third
party program is given congress to
annul the Constitution in any particu-
lar that same power extends to the
document in its entirety" he declared.
One Vital Issue.
Chairman Butler is developing the
announcements of the Republican
vice presidential nominee, Charles G.
Dawes. He sees in this campaign the
vital issue of keeping the American
Constitution inviolate from the menace
of radicalism. That is the issue as
the G. o. p. chieftain sees it. John
w. Davis, the Democratic nominee, is
characterized as "a distinguished con-
stitutional lawyer" but he has been
eliminated from the contest by COM
bination Of circumstances unusual in
our political life" Mr.. Butler says.
II am not discovering an ISSUE" he
says. Il am proclaiming one" His
statement says:
"The country at large, irrespective
of parties, has an issue which de-
mands the attention of all. 1t is to
save the Constitution"
THE fundamental issues which have
divided the two major parties in the
past sui SAlSl, DuL SISdlCl OuC mas
arisen. 1t is no longer merely ques-
tion of issues between two parties.
The life of our republic is at stake.
1.-The Socialist-Third party under
the leadership of Senator LaFollette
has thrust upon us a doctrine which
calls for immediate action if we would
save the Constitution. The struggle
is not over methods of government,
but the abolition of government"
"Debunking Senator LaFoIlette."
Under the caption ''Debunking Sen
ator LaFollette" the Chicago Tribune
prints the following editorial:
William NJ Butler, chairman of the
Republican national committee, asks
Senator LaFollette to furnish bill of
particulars. The senator says the sys-
tenn is impoterishing the American
people and he describes an anti-social
organization which must have head
quarters, engineers, plans blueprints,
and means of proceeding against the
great masses.
He does not say 1T has headquarters
and all the rest of 1t, but it could not
highly organized, with a responsible
army of servants and the definite will
to wreck the welfare of the country for
it's own gain.
Mr.. LaFollette has not had the gift
of specification. 1t has been the gift of
generalization and Mr.. Butler wants to
know what good many others of us
would like to know. What specifically
does the system do by calculated pur-
IT,
poverished people to stop it?
Part of Mr.. LaFollette's system is
the coal combination. Mr.. Butler says
that the price of bituminous coal is
lower today than 1t has been since
1916, the wages are 100 per cent high
er, and nc group controls more than
5 per cent of the output Mr.. LaFol-
lette means the sugar monopoly. The
domestic sugar growers are protected
by a tariff. The southern cane growers
are outside his view of economics and
politics, but are the beet sugar grow
ers? Does he mean to take the tariff
off to help them? If so, why not tell
his agricultural following that he in
tends to do it?
LaFollette says oil is a part of the
system. Mr.. Butler says that COMPETE
tion has resulted in a great overpro-
duction and lowering of prices. Ger
tainly the government has made its
one great effort to break up the oil
combinations.
LaFollette says the railroads are in
the system. Butler says that the rail-
roads in the last four years have not
physical valuation and the level of
wages is 90 per cent higher than in the
prewar period.
LaFollette says the packers are in
the system. Three of the principal
packers of the United States have been
going through financial reorganization
because of losses and the industry is
trying to keep from going broke.
LaFollette says the tariff is the par
ent of evils. What tariff will he take
off-the tariff which keeps the goods
of Iow-priced European labor from
coming in or the tariff which keeps
American field products free from the
competition of the European peasant?
Will he win California by saying that
the California nuts and lemons shall
be subjected to the competition of
South America and Italy?
Tell it to California. Tell the sugar
beet growers that they are not bene-
flied. Tell the New England farmer
that he does not need a Wall against
Canadian hay. Tell the Minnesota
farmer that the wall against Canadian
wheat does him no good. Maybe it
does him no good, but Minnesota has
thought it did or 1t would not be in
the schedule. Tell the wool grower
that he does not need protection. May
be he doesn't, but he seems to like 1t.
Well welcome many specifications
from Mr.. LaFollette.
This is a garden and IT has it's gar
den walls and it's two bulldogs. The
wall is built of the tariff and immigra-
ton restriction. The bulldogs are the
army and navy. The wall and its
guardians are needed by any nation
which wants to protect what is pecu-
liarly it's own. Otherwise the other
fellow on the outside will get the
fruits.