Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-09-05
DAWES AND FOS-
TER JOIN HANDS
70 FIGHT LABOR

Washington. Aug S0.-Joseph A.
/ Wise, member Of tie Chicago Typo
graphical union, has notified Chair
man Butler Of tie Republican national
committee that he believes in the
/ United States constitution ana there
fore can net accept the invitation to
attend the Charles q. Dawes notlh-
cation ceremonies.
Mr.. Wise calls attention 20 Dawes
/ support of notorious labor injunction
judges in the local COUNTY elections.
Dawes was joined in TINS BY William
z. Foster, the communist.
AS a lifelong Republican | haC
hoped that the party might, in this
campaign, come before the people
with platform and candidates
which would appeal to the best in
stincts of cur citizens said Mr..
Wise
About 10 months ago took an
active part in the campaign TO defeat
a Democratic judge in Cook county,
Judge Dennis +. Sullivan, who had
become known rs one Of the most
drastic injunction judges in the middle
west. When that campaign was AZ
its height, ana Judge Sullivan was
facing defeat, Charles q. Dawes, noW
the vice presidential nominee of the
Republican party, rallied his personal
following to the support of this Dem
ocratic injunction judge, and, in doing
so, made the astonishing declaration
that in isuing the arbitrary inlunc-
tion wfits restricting the rights OF
citizens, Judge Sullivan was merely
acting i'm accord with the provisions
of the constitution.
Judge Sullivan was reelected by
the votes which Mr.. Dawes personally
obtained for him in Evanston ana
tt.her towns surrounding Chicago
While doing this Mr.. Dawes direetet I
some vicious verbal attacks against
well-known and widely respected
trade union officers. He was joined in
this by one William Z. Foster, the
glorious communist. Information
regarding this peculiar- teamwork is
available in the files of the Chicago
newspapers.
81 am, however, not so much con-
cerned about the unfair attacks upon
the labor representatives as | am
about the perverted view of the con-
stitution presented by MessIs. Dawes
and Foster, who, each in his own way,
| insist that the injunction evil is j
fundamental part of American gov
ernment. To say that the autocratic
injunction power, as used by Judge
| Sullivan and others of his kind, is in
herent in the basic law of the nation
| is "a iibesoar slander against the con
stitution.
"When the United States entered
the World War enlisted in the
United States regular army (Tenth
United States infantry, although |
was As years of age at the time, TO
| help stem the tide of the onrushing
monarchists of the central powers.
| felt it worth while TO risk my life
then in order that | might assist i'm
preventing the spread of autocratic
rule over he world. Can | now agree
to sun"iort a political candidate. even
though he be of my own party, who
insists that the basic law of free
America contains in it power of
autocratic rule more arbitrary than
any exercised, or even proposed, by
the kaiser himself?
81 was a good American during the
war and | am a good American today.
| defended the constitution against a
foreign fee then and | will defend the
constitution now against either Mr..
Dawes or Mr.. Foster or any others
who, either ignorantly or maliciously,
seek to mislead the people as to the
true meaning of that wonderful in
strument."
In declining to have anything to
do with the Dawes candidacy, Mr..
Wise declares that he will "do every
thing within my power to induce citi-
zens to support the LaFollette-
Wheeler presidential candidates."