Evening star., 1925-09-13
Administration and madison
Ring" Declared Sole Issues
in Wisconsin Fight.
ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT
ANSWERED BY SENATOR
Assails Conduct of State Govern
ment-Election Tuesday Is Pre-
senting Complex Situation.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
staff Correspondent of The Star.

MADISON, Wis, September Il
Senator Lenroot, speaking in the in
terest of the "stalwart" candidate for
the Senate, Roy p Wilcox, in an ad-
dress here tonight declared there were
just two issues in the campaign in
the Republican senatorial primaries
now closing.
/. Do the Republicans of Wiscon-
sin wish to uphold President Coolidge
and his administration?
2. Do the Republicans of Wiscon-
sin wish to continue the Madison
ring''-the La Follette-B Blaine -Ekern
organization-in power over State af-
fairs?
1t was Senator Lenroots final
here tomorrow for Washington and
the balloting takes place Tuesday.
Cites Two Issues.
I'VE are nearing the close of the
campaign. And it is important that
we do not lose sight of what the real
issues are. There are but two. Do
you believe in President Coolidge and
the kind of administration he is Civ
ing the country?
Young Robert La Toilette, Gov.
Blaine and Attorney General Ekern
are denouncing him in every speech
they make, as being the tool of Wall
Street, of the great business interests
of the country.
Who is President Coolidge and
what is his history?
Born on a rocky farm in Vermont
that no Wisconsin farmer would try
to make living on, of poor parents,
he has attained the highest office
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pie. And yet up TO the time he as
sumed the office of President, he was
a. poor or poorer than are a majority
of the audience. l know that up to
that time he was as poor as l was,
and if I should die tonigh', the value
of my estate would not be one-half
of that of the late Senator La Fol-
lette. Coolidge has never owned an
auto, not even a Ford, because he
could not afford it. Do you think
that if he was that kind of a man that
the opposition would have you believe
he is he would have been a poor man?
Candidates Are Compared.
"Will you send to Washington Roy
P. Wilcox, who will support him and
the Republican party in their gen
eral policies, or will you send young
Robert, who is denouncing him and
who less than a year ago did every
thing he could to destroy the Repub-
lican party?
That is one of the chief issues in
this campaign. The other is. do you
believe in the kind of a State govern
ment we have been having at Madison
during the past four years?
Il ask every wage Garner, every
farmer, every business man in Wis
consin what has that administration
done for you unless you hold a State
job. Has it reduced your taxes, have
your circumstances been improved in
any way by it?
GOV Blaine in his speeches is re-
ferring to Mr.. Wilcox and me as the
Gold Dust Twins Well, Gold Dust,
you know, is a cleaning powder, and
If We can be humble instruments in
cleaning this capitol from dome to
basement we shall have rendered a
most valuable public service. Gov.
Blaine will never have a twin. He
prefers to. be the single radical leader
in Wisconsin. He is not in the least
afraid of young Robert; he proposes
to wear the mantle of the late Senator
La Toilette himself, and will share it
with no one. He proposes to do this
even If he has to pardon every convict
still at Waupun to accomplish his pur-
pose.
Situation Is Complex.
On the surface the issues are clearly
joined. But the situation is by no
means SO simple. Racial, religious and
old factional feudS are so woven into
the background it is doubtful that the
fight over the Coolidge idea and the
La Toilette idea, the conservatively
progressive and the radically progress.
sive will really be settled in accord
ance with the actual beliefs of the
voters.
President Coolidge is personally
popular in this State, as he is in other
States of the West If he were run
ming for the presidency today he
would carry the State. Just one thing
prevented his carrying it last year
the love and affection of the people
for the late Senator La Toilette. The
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