Evening star., 1925-09-17
La TOILETTE FOES
BALKEDBY RULING
Plan of Republicans to Offer
New Candidate Held
Illegal.
BY the Associated Press.

MILN AL kEE. Wis, September IT.
Proposals of Republican opponents
of Robert NJ. La Toilette. jr., TO meet
his candidacy with some one who did
not participate in Tuesdays primary
were halted here today by am an
nouncement from the Secretary of
State at Madison
Under plan. as advanced in a Sc
cret conference lasting - hours. II
was thought that the possibility of a
new candidate rested In clause of the
election laws interpreted to mean that
any ca ndidate properly registered and
entered might withdraw for another
person. The Secretary of State ruled.
however, that such n instance was
| appliCa bic only to a party which does
not have nominee. Tuesdays bal
loting made La Toilette the Republl-
can nominee.
New Man Considered.
The conferees' plans were said TO
have centered around the with
drdWal of one or more candidates and
the entrance OF William l.. Pieplow
to make the race as the antiLa
| Toilette candidate.
Roy p. Wilcox. who ran second TO
la Toilette and who also filed as an
independent candidate, Will not be
affected BY the Secretary Of states
lican, indorsed by the Ku klux Khan.
who announced that he confidently
expected TO be on the ballot at the
election September 29. was thought
TO have been eliminated by the ruling.
Faces Seven Foes.
If all who propose 10 enter the
lists for the senatorial toga relinquish-
ed by the late Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette actually contest, it will be
an eight-man affair, with only three
parties actually designated on the
ballot.
If the party affiliations are noted.
however. there will be five Renub-
licans, one Democrat. one Socialist
and one Socialist Dor. These men
are: La Toilette. Republican nom!-
nee; Wilcox. Edward +. DHhmaT.
Woodward and Arthur Barry. all
| nominal Republicans. but running
as Independents; William G. Bruce.
nominally Democratic, but running rs
Independent; John NJ. Work. Socialist
nominee. and George Bauman, So
cialist Labor nominee.
This rather Temarka BILE situation
bears out the contention made by
many that the primary meant moth
! ing in so far as being a deciding iac-
| tor in selecting party nominees Tor
! the election and that meaning noth-
| ing many voters declined TO vote, as
| is witnessed by the total vote being
| considerably less than one-half of the
average.
Victory for PrOgressivism.
| At Madison young Bob issued
! statement announcing the victory one
/ for progressivism and declaring the
| Republicans of Wisconsin had rededi-
! Gated themselves to carry on that
| fight In this statement he enunciated
| no principles that he would put for
ward 10 the voters during the next
| two weeks. but said he considered the
victory tribute paid to our departed
| leader
Work. the Socialist. in a statement
| said, There is no explanation for the
| light Republican vote except that the
people of Wisconsin are disgusted
with all the Republican candidates.
Other conservative Republicans, how
ever, are basing their hope for ult,-
mate success against La Toilette on
the hope that a far heavier vote WI!
| he found when the ballots are counted
! September %, and they DO not hest
| tate to predict that the conservatives
will get the larger portion Of the
/ voters who did not vote Tuesday.
| On the other hand. La FOllette's
| adherents point TO the terrific vote
| getting power of the youthful La
! Toilette. If Tuesdays ratio OF voting
! is maintained on September 20 and
Wisconsin Republicans cast votes TO
their full strength of $50 900, these ad-
herents display figures that show
young Bob would have a plurality of
| approximately 2l5.000 over single
| opponent. The late Senator carried
| the State when he was last elected
| by approximately 100000.
Has 9O,9a7 Plurality.
Returns from 2.5O2 out of o691
| precincts give:
| La Toilette, Ill, ,495.
| Wilcox, S0,51S.
| Woodward, 40.6SS.
| McGovern, 1889.
This shows La Toilette with A ma
| jority over all three opponents of
| 81 ,760 and a plurality over Wilcox of
! 9097T.
The results of the primary are
| decisive, Bruce said in a statement.
La Toilette is in and both the Re
publicans and Democrats are out" he
said. My name automatically goes
| on the ballot September 29 in an in
| dependent column, but labeled as a
| Democrat so that the party will be
| represented on the ticket.
''As far as the Democrats are CON
cerned. II is evident that one faction
|
| remained at home. La Toilette had
| within his control the first essential
! of a political campaign. complete or.
ganization. l entered under a hand4
| cap in that l went in at the eleventh
| hour without an organization and
without a campaign fund. / man
| aged to give the lakes to-the ocean
waterway a boost and will continue
| to do So @
4
Felicitated by Labor.
! LINCOLN, Nebr., September j.
! LP)-A telegram expressing pleasure
| at his nomination to succeed his
! father as Senator from Wisconsin
was sent Robert NJ. La Toilette, jr..
! by the Nebraska State Federation of
Labor annual convention in session
here yesterday. Hope for his election
| was expressed.
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