The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-09
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MADISON Square Garden, In New
lVl York City, and the Municipal
Auditorium, in Cleveland, in these
recent days, have been the scenes of
the complete bankruptcy Of middle
(muddie) class politics.
All the petty conflicts that wormed
their way to the surface in the demo
cratic convention, even to the Ku Klux
Khan issue, also dubbed up contin-
uously in LaFollette's personally con-
Quoted political show in the Ohio
metropolis.
There is more truth than humor in
the paragraph that appeared in the
July 4th issue of the Wall Street
Journal declaring that:
"onIy one thing that cannot con-
tradlct itself in the democratic conven-
tion is the band"
The democratic contradictions fought
their way into the open in an effort
to select winning presidential candi-
date and the convention has now been
on for two weeks, all records of bal
lots taken have been broken, and the
outlook at this writing is not one bit
changed And it will make no differ.
ence who will be nominated in the
end.
At Cleveland all differences were
smothered under a LaFollette mani,
pulated steam roller, that surpassed
in efficiency any gag machine yet In
vented by either the democrats or re
publicans.
The fostering political sore on the
body polite, known as the democratic
party, has broken in New York City
exuding it's repellent stencil in the
nostrils of the nation. The LaFollette
boil, at Cleveland, showed it has not
yet come to a head, but it is rapidly
on the way
The close relationship between the
labor bureaucratic, the small bankers
landlords and little business men, oil
the New York gathering, and those OF
the Cleveland Conference was shown
by the fact that many sat on the door
steps, or were on the inside of both
asylums for the politically distressed
and homeless.
There was nothing strange about a
few of the free lance democrats in
New York City talking about "LaFol
lette, he's good democrat"
1t was perfectly natural for the rail-
road chiefs, who held the Cleveland
Conference in their pockets, to issue
an ultimatum to McAdoo, at New York
City, last Saturday, that if he did not
put over his nomination by four O'Clock
in the afternoon, they would be com
PEELED to turn to LaFollette, in Cleve
land.
Never was any middle class, in any
nation of the world, more hopelessly
bankrupt politically. Lloyd George
for a time in England, held the pre-
miership as the spokesman of the
McAdoo-LaFollette elements in that
country. But he was finally ground tc
pieces between the capitalists on the
one hand and the workers, organized
in their own party, on the other.
But in the United States the billion
aire plutocrats of Wall Street, pay
little attention to the Madison Square
Garden circus Their official organ
the Wall Street Journal, gave it hard
ly passing attention. While McAdoc
was parading as David about to slay
the Wall st. Goliath, and inviting the
hatred Of the subsidized press, at the
same time the Wall Street journal
pointed out his. inconsistency in oper
ating Ibis campaign from a hotel op
posite the Garden with one of Wal
Streets foremost legal lights and one
of the Streets leading financiers as
his mentors"
Similarly in Cleveland. The labor
editor, Mahoney, is unseated to make
way for Sinclair, the st. Paul banker
while the political fortunes of LaFol
lette are placed in the hands of ar