The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-08
Small Shows LaFolIette
How the Double-Cross Is
Used in Aid of Coolidge
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Len Small is out in the OPEN
The governor of illinois, endorsed for reelection by the
LaFoette campaign, has brazeny thrown his support to
Coolidge.
Governor Small jumps onto the Coolidge bandwagon.
But whom do we find hanging onto SmaPs coat tails?
There is Frank Farngtcn president Of the United Mine
Federation of Labor Victor Oahde secretary of the Illinois
Federation Of Labor and John Fitzpatrick president of the
All dragged aboard the Coolidge bandwagon the
tails of the Ku Nux Kan governor Of Illinois
Gov. Small worked an artfu doube-cross on the La
Foittes He withheld his open endorsement of Coolidge
until the time expired for filing OF petitions for Independent
candidates.
Early in the summer the LaFoIette campagners had
intentions of filing their candidate 1t known that
the Wisconsin senator would very much like to see Raymond
Robins his candidate for But Robins the Roose
welt Bull Mooser 1912 climbed abroad the Coolidge wagon
long ago and got front select seat.
Len Small has the support of the most reactionay labor
officials in the state So it natural that the Boshevk
hating senator should fall in ne and accept Governor Small
with the understanding that the governor should double
cross Coolidge and throw whatever support he could to La
Toilette At any rate, the LaFoett capagnes plunged
Small with the result that they have now landed in the
Coolidge puddle.
1t was in the local theate Harrisburg, Illinois, where
publican candidates The clock fast ticking away the
hour for filing petitions at Springfield Speaker after
for the republican party of Wall Street and its national
standard bearer strikebreake Coolidge. Then with
eye the clock Small joined in the chorus with:
Il have been lifelong republican and always expect to
be- approve OF everything that has been said by those who
spoke before me-"
THAT ALL" the political reporter of the
open shop Chicago Tribune But evidently The Tribune
feels that enough, geets the governors
the official republican fold with the headline SmaI Last
Gets into Step with Coolidge"
The workers and farmers Of Illinois should now have an
easy time deciding where to throw their support in the
November elections LaFoee tried sell and
farmers to the Len Small campaign Small in his turn,
trying to deliver the workers and farmers the Coolidge
ticket.
In declaring the treachery of their officials
who tried to stradde both the LaFoette and Coolidge
campaigns, and by repudatng all capitalist political cand-
dates the workers and farmers of Illinois will make good
beginning in the fight for their own interests.
Against the LaFoIlettes, the Len Smas and the "caI
Coodges the political ackeys of the Bosses stand the
munst candidates of the Workers Party Against Coolidge
stands Foster; against Dawes stands GtIow; and in Illinois,
in the struggle for governorshp against Len Small stands
the Communist candidate, William F. Dunno
The Farrngtons, oIanders, Walkers and Fitzpatricks
deliver the workers of Illinois Coolidge The work.
will fight this treachery and join hands with Com
munsts, for the against capitalism, for the triumph of
labor