The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-15
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. O'FLAHERTY.

McAdoo will not bolt the democratic
party ticket. Like Bryan he suddenly
discovered that the forces of evil he
was fighting are after all progressive
and that the vanquished leader of
progressive democracy" can now con-
scientously give his support to Nor
gan's counsel. Nobody should take the
statements of capitalist politicians be-
fore conventions or during election
campaigns too seriously. Robbers
quarrel over the loot but they put up
a united front against their victims.
The railroad brotherhood leaders who
held up McAdoo as their ideal will
now explain that Wall Street did not
want him. Hence his defeat. But how
can they explain McAdoo's promised
support to Wall Street after he was
slapped in the face?
That all the capitalist parties and
the LaFollette parties are controlled
by business men is unquestionably
true. But it is also true that the DOM
inant faction among the capitalists,
represented by Morgan, Gary, Rookie
Teller and the big fellows do not al
ways manage to have their own way
with their parties. The republican par
ty is usually manageable. But some
times they do not get the right man
nominated on the democratic ticket
and this failure costs them lot of
good money until they tame the presi-
lential shrew.
This year, however, both parties are
securely in their grip. So much so
that Morgan got his attorney on the
democratic donkey's back and another
banker to ride the elephant with Coo
lidge. McAdoo and his kind have
other strings to their bows. Wall
Street would tame McAdoo after a
while but he would have trouble with
1.-THE labor leaders to whom he prom
ised favors for their support. There
are no such strings on Davis. Wall
Street will now proceed to get a
stranglehold on LaFollette's outfit and
| it will be interesting to watch the
"progressives" making for the dough
bag.
The organs of big capitalism are
severely attacking LaFollette. They
charge him with being a reactionary
capitalist, whose policy is to go back
to the era of small business and cut.
throat competition, to smash up the
monopolies that represent industrial
progress. This is quite true. LaFol-
lette represents the middle class, not
the big capitalists or the workers. The
capitalists recognize in him an irri.
tant which interferes with their dom.
ination and introduces an element of
chaos into politics. They know quite
well that he will not solve any of the
problems of the workers. They know
that he is not concerned with the
workers but is only using them to
further his own ambitions and the
interests Of the class he. represents
The. Communists attack LaFollette
because has has blocked the great
Farmer-Labor Party class movement
and postponed the formation of a
mass party of workers and exploited
farmers. Wall Street attacks LaFol
lette because he is throwing a mon
| key wrench into their political ma
chinery represented by the democrat
ic and republican parties.
The Communists expose LaFollette
as one of those saviors who are con
tinually cropping up to free the "peo.
pie" with the people having nothing
to say as to how they shall be freed
Theirs not to reason why; theirs but
to vote and pay. Roosevelt, Bryan and
Wilson were also going to free every
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