The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-11

window dear Rebecca" said he to his
nurse" and see If the tide of battle
flows in my direction. Do you see the
wet emblem of the Lion-Hearted Al
or the dusty banner of Front De Buff
De Bryan? How far can thou see from
the battlements? Methinks / hear the
tap of rolling drums. Is it a raid on
some trusty cellar? Must l live here
like a bedridden chump while the
game that gives me liquor or thirst
is played out by the hands of others?"
McAdoo was willing to be quoted as
saying that he was on his way to
Europe. II am a progressive demo
crat," he declared. AL Smith said that
he got more applause than he ever
got before in his life, and that it
would be wet when it rained. AS the
leader of Oliver Street, he would line
up his family behind Davis.
The candidates who were named
but not nominated are liable to form
another party or go over to LaFol-
lette. They believe the latter will be
glad TO nave them.
William Randolph Hearst leaves
the democratic party again and Bris-
bane breaks with Coolidge. 1t is a
queer mixup.
Bromo-Selzer will run on his own
hook like LaFollette and tho he does
not expect to win, it is believed he
will make a lot of money. The state
afflux in which the political situation
finds itself has caused an epidemic
of headaches. Social analysts are
talking so much about the new "orien-
tation" that Tao Sing Song, military
leader of Manchuria, may declare war
on America for insulting the indignity
of his country. The orient is very
ticklish those days. A new crop of
suicides is expected in Japan.
The only kick heard so far about
the democratic nomination has come
from the insane asylums. They were
united for Harry Thaw and now
threaten to join the LaFollette cam
paign. The socialist party is there
already so it won't look so queer. The
nuts" do not see why they shoSld
be confined while the workers who
support the democratic, republican
and LaFolIette parties are loose. The
lunatics will not join LaFollette how
ever, unless he adopts the Hearst sug-
gestion and forms third party. They
may be crazy, but there is limit.
Burglars Nouplussed.
That is the general opinion thruout
the country The burglars don't
know what to make of it. They are,
politically speaking, up in the air.
They are all dressed up with no
place to go. After being lined up in
two different camps for years, they
may now change their residence. The
donkey is dying. The elephant, de-
spite his oil spree, is still organically
sound. The heart is alright. Most
Of the burglars will stay on the ele-
plants back Another battalion will
handle the jackass while there is yet
life in him. A pioneer group will go
to the LaFolIette party to direct it
on the Wall Street track.
The workers and exploited farmers
look on the tragic-comedy with in.
terest. No doubt, hundreds of thou
sands will express their disgust with
the democratic and republican parties,
by jumping from the frying pan into
the fire. In protesting against the
two old parties Of big capitalism, they
will switch to LaFollette's personally
conducted revived campaign. A cam
paign to revive a form of capitalism
that is dead and almost buried. La
Toilette wants to reform the robber
system. 1t cannot be done.
The workingclass will learn that
there is no essential difference be-
tween the three capitalist parties now
competing for their support Their
only hope is in workingclass poll
teal party, aiming at the overthrow
of the capitalist system.