White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-10-31

In considering the candidacy OF
snv candidate for President Of the
IIni+ed States we should first OF all
consider whether or not he is true
American; whether or not ne has az
heart the ideals upon. winch tnls
Government was founded and the
ideals for which American men ana
women have given their lives through
generation after generation; whetner
or not he will be true to that most
sacred oath Of our Nation, the IN
sugural oath of its President; or on
the other hand whether he is merely
candidate for his own personal
gain, the love Of power and self
desire and the plaudits of dissolute
rabblc.
In considering as to whether or
not candidate can qualify under any
Of the foregoing requirements we
can not seriously consider the things
that the candidate will promise or
what he smay say he will do it elect
ed. That is, we can only judge the
man, not by his words, but rather
by his actions. If we were to believe
and accept for truth all of the things
that have been promised in. any
political campaign the public would
long ago have reduced itself to sack
cloth and ashes. Rather the Amer.
can people have long ago learned
that it is not what the candidate
promises for the future that we are
interested in but truly, the things
which he has done in the past.
Let us consider what candidate
LaFolletts has done in the past. Il
we should consider only the wal
record of Candidate LaFollette It is
evident that the same must entirely
disqualify him from any gift from
the American people and most OF al
the gift of being President Of oul
Nation. Robert M. LaF gillette is the
same man he was in 1917 and we
must not forget it. If was right dur.
ing the war, he is right now. Those
men, the crew of open and secret
syrnpathizers with our eninies dur.
ing the war, the paid propagandists
and the allen plotters against us
whose hero he was then, are al
cheering him today. If LaFollette
was patriotic American in 1917
then Woodrow Wilson, Theodore
! Roosevelt and every gallant boy who
died for us across the sea, were not
If LaFollette was right, then every
man of us who believed in the cause
of America was a weak and deluded
simpleton. Argue if you like, that the
war was not the knightly crusade we
thought it was, but America was on
the firing line. Her fate as Nation
was at stake. Her youth, her ideals
her every hope of free existence
were in the balance. He was not with
her but against her. Where was he
Barking at our heels. ready with words
! of comfort for our enemies and none
of encouragement for us. His voice and
i his power in Congress were used tc
hamper our every effort. He has never
excused his actions nor repented them
Wilson and Roosevelt are in their
graves. Thousands Of lads who dice
in France are still sleeping in the faith
that sent them there. The men and wo.
men who believed in these men, these
lids who have given their lives, still
believe that they did their duty. Moth.
ing can change them in this and theii
faith in America and the righteousness
CT her cause will never be changed. La
Follotte does not ask that we forget
ard forgive rather he asks that we jus
tify him in his past. True he. might
have thought that the war was no
justified and representing the people
in Wisconsin in c,r Senate he had the
privilege and right to vote against oul