The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23

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- nor an elephant, but it is a many
headed monstrosity with the heads de-
string to go in different directions.
Quesse and his crowd handed Small
to the LaFollette boys in Illinois.
Small, politically speaking, is a pole
cat, and is as welcome in a respect
able party as strict monogamist
would be in the House of David. But
owing to political exigencies the La
Toilette crowd are forced to accept
him, tho with look which indicates
that the medicine is anything but
agreeable. Quesse and his crowd are
progressive. Anybody is who sup
ports LaFollette. But his progressive
ism so far as substantial assistance to
LaFollette is concerned is rather pla-
tonic. He gives him unstinted praise
but insists that money collected thru
the unions goes to Small. Isn't Small
one Of the progressive boys? And is
he not an enemy of Hell-an'- Maria
Dawes, the convenient DOGGY man who
is used by the labor takers as a smoke
screen to hide their own misdeeds
from the union members they are con-
stantly betraying?
THE gas pipe section of the trade
1 union movement is lined up with
Small; the more respectable section,
represented by the railroad brother
hoods and the socialist careerists give
Bob" first preference and still an
other section supposed to have the
backing of the now almost homeless
Fitzpatrick Nockels combinations is
running around like a hen about to
lay an egg, looking for an inviting
nest.
THESE factions care nothing for the
L interests of the working class
Like Tammany Hall, in New York,
their own parochial interests come
first and their political alignments are
determined by those interests. Labor
takers who hold up contractors will
support Small in return for the keys
of Joliet prison. Socialist careerists
will place their eggs in LaFollette's
baskets. They might cackle their way
into congress with a good exper-
fenced sitting hen like Fighting Bob"
And third party" in the Illinois
combination, the orphans who are
looking for somebody to adopt them,
/ will land qopaaurbara vr0v;dod thox,
play the game right. The interests
Of labor are nowhere considered, but
the majority of the workers will not
worry about that for another while.
MAYHEM the democratic convention
wv which nominated Davis ended
its labors, the DAILY WORKER pre-
dicted that the donkey party received
a fatal blow, from which it would
never recover. OF course political
parties with a past do not perish in a
year, or even in decade perhaps, but
1t is evident that the party of Jeffer-
son has seen its best and happiest
days. AS Frank Munsey, Senator FIRE.
linghusen of New Jersey and other
supporters of Big Business stated,
there being no fundamental difference
between the democratic and republi.
can parties, the sensible thing for the
conservative elements in both parties
to do is to unite and leave the so
called radicals in both camps to get
into party of their own.
OUCH development may result
- from the present election cam
paign. The rumors of possible deal
between the republicans and the dem
ocrats for Davis-Dawes combination
may have more substance than shad.
ow to II. Davis is perfectly satisfac.
tory to the republicans. In fact his
nomination by the democrats was
hailed with more enthusiasm by the
republican editors than by the demo.
cratic contemporaries. The attorney
for the House of Morgan--could any.
Ibody be better qualified to represent