The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27

himself with regard to his chances
Of being elected to the White House.
Yet why does he refuse to build fu-
ture strength thru the election of
state and local candidates pledged to
support his policies?
Why do his campaign managers
work frantically to prevent even the
endorsement of Senator Norris, right
handler of LaFollette, by the me
braska progressives?"
| Why does LaFollette refuse to be
"entangled" with the Farmer-Labor
Party in Minnesota?
The answers to these questions lie
in the facts and extenuating circum-
stances" given above. LaFollette and
Bryan are politicians, typical petit
bourgeois politicians, who would ne
yer hesitate to use the masses Of de-
luded workers and exploited farmers
to achieve their own selfish ends.
LaFolIette's Bolt In the Cog.
LaFollette believes, yes, Gompers,
Wheeler, Stone, and Hillquit, perhaps
even Debs, believe that LaFollette
can carry a sufficient number of
states, thru the votes of the great
masses of workers and farmers under
their theological domination, that no
candidate will receive a majority of
electoral votes and the election will
then be thrown into the House of Rep
resentatives.
What of that, you say? Just how
do LaFollette and the labor takers
stand to gain anything by that?
Watch! If the LaFollette and Bry-
an swindle succeeds according to
schedule, the so-called progressive
bloc" in Congress can prevent the
election, they calculate, of either Cool
idge or Davis. (Since each state
would cast one vote and a clear ma
jority would be necessary. 1t would
then behoove the country's guardians
to forego the selection of president
and choose a vice-president who
would serve in his place. Then, these
takers calculate, the "LaFollette bloc
could muster sufficient votes, togeth-
err with those of the Democrats, to
put the Main Street politician from
Nebraska, Charley Bryan, in the
White House as their suppliant tool.
improbable, you say? Consider
again: Why we're Bryan's henchmen,
as far back as February, positive that
he would be on the Democratic ma
tional ticket?
Why was LaFollette so particular
ly anxious to- head off the st. Paul
Farmer-Labor convention?
Why does LaFollette now, when he
knows that he can carry but few
states, insist upon no "entangling al
Iiances" even with the Farmer-Labor
Party of Minnesota?
The Great swindIe.
Unless the workers and exploited
farmers of this country can be warn
ed in time, which is the task of the
Communists, the LaFollette Bryan
swindle may succeed. Masses of
duped toilers, marching up to the
polls to elect candidate by Minority
Vote and lay the beginning of Fas-
oIsm in America may be the spectacle
before us in November.
Every Communist, every member
of the Workers Party, should consi-
der it his duty to his cause to strain
every nerve in behalf of the Foster
Gitlow campaign, and against the La
Toilette Illusion"
Against the LaFolIettes and the
organs, against the takers Of all de-
lscriptions, the Workers Party raises
the slogan of working class strug-
gle, the overthrow of capitalism-the
Soviet power and dictatorship of the
proletariat.
Behind the clever mask of LaFol-
lette and Bryan lies the black shirt
of the Fascist--ready to do the bid
ding Of Wall Street and assassinate
the cause Of the workers and exploit
ed farmers in return for place at the
political. pie-counter. Charles w. Bry-
an is hungry.