The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-10

The regular petition apply
already been filed and the date
for the filing of all petitions was
but few days off when Ekern
made his ruling.
All Plans Well Laid.
The Workers Party was not sur
prised at this last minute attempt to
keep its candidates off the ballot,
while at the same time LaFollette's
supporters had been tipped off and all
such fake rulings as those made by
Ekern provided for. LaFollette and
Wheeler were to be on the ballot in
Wisconsin but not Foster and Gitlow,
according to the plans of the Wis
consin "progressives." Immediately
upon learning the facts, the Workers
Party proceeded to call the bluff Of
attorney general Ekern.
Morris Fromkin, legal representa-
tive of the party in Wisconsin. went
to Madison and interviewed the various
officials, both the secretary Of state
and the attorney general. Their ex-
cuses and explanations for their hasty
action was not accepted by the Work
ers Party. The party announced its
intention to fight this kind of gang po-
litics and expose the methods Of those
who run the model commonwealth"
generally thruout the country. Now
we learn that the secretary of state,
Fred r. Zimmerman, will disregard
the ruling of the attorney general and
will permit the name of William q.
Foster and Benjamin Gitiow to be
placed on the official ballot in Wis
consin.
Workers. Draw the Lessonl
The foregoing incident should serve
as an object lesson to all those suffer
ing from the LaFollette illusion. La
Toilette recently has again assumed
his favorite role of martyr, caused by
the ruling of the California supreme
court, the judges Of which voted four
against three to rule LaFollette's
electors off the ballot in California on
some such legal technical and fimsy
excuse as his own man Ekern now
tried to avail himself of against the
Communist candidates in LaFollette's
Wisconsin utopia.
Attorney general Ekern is the same
one to whom LaFoIlette, from his At
lantic retreat, addressed the Infamous
letter denouncing the Communists and
the st. Paul convention. In this letter
he says, speaking of the COMMUNISTS
Their real purpose is to establish, by
revolutionary action, a dictatorship of
the proletariat which is absolutely
repugnant to democratic ideals and
to all American aspirations"
Both attorney general Ekern and
secretary of state Zimmerman are
LaFollette Wisconsin lieutenants.
Surely no one will claim that their
attempt to keep off the ballot all in
dependent candidates and reserve the
space for LaFollette and Wheeler Is
democratic. II is just as unfair and
outrageous an attempt as could be
made by the lieutenants Of Cal Cool
idge himself. II is a general indica
=! ton of the precinct politics played by
LaFollette and his gang in Wiscon
sim Should LaFollette, by miracle
be elected the same gangster anc
precinct politics would be a part Of the
national LaFollette regime.
Realize LaFoIIette Menace.
The Workers Party from the outset
has been conscious of the LaFollett,
menace to the American working class
Should II get the opportunity II will
90 further in its frantic support o.
capitalism than Noske, Scheidemanr
or Macdonald. whom IL likes to hal
as its English prototype.
The victory OF the Workers Part,
in Wisconsin in compelling. thru III
militant and aggressive fight and ii
statewide publicity the LaFollett'
lieutenants. attorney general and sec
Rotary of state. to back away from