The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-10-24
WHAT SHAME LAFOLLETTE
By CHARLES E. TAYLOR

Candidate for United States Senate FarmerLabOr Ticket
In 1919, Senator Walsh voted for the expulsion of
Sen. Robert M LaFoette, the older traitor to this
country and unfit to sit in the Senate. Today the son
Montana to speak for the who insued and
prosecuted his father telling Montana people that Walsh
is progressive and worthy of progressive support.
When war was declared LaFolette, the older, voted
against the resolution.
In the fall of 1917 in St. Paul, LaFollette delivered
speech in which he denounced the Mr. Morgan's
war; war by the exploiters to make good the bonds
which they had bought from the Allies.
This speech caused a sensation.
LaFolIette was denounced A Resolution was intro,
duced in the United States Senate charging dsoyalty and
providing for his expulsion from that body.
Sen. LaFollette went into retirement in disgrace.
The resolution referred to senate committee COM
posed of eleven members of which Sen. Walsh of Mon
tana and Sen. John Sharp Williams of Mississippi,
members In early spring Of 1919, several months after
the close of the war; the committee reported The MAORI
ty report recommended dismissal of charges against Sen
LaFollette This committee composed of republicans
and democrats. But minority report sustaining the
charges and providing for expulsion signed by John
Sharp Williams and Senator t. j. Walsh both democrats,
was also filed and moved.
In moving the adoption of the minority reports
demnng Sem LaFolette and providing for his expulsion
from the Senate, John Sharp Williams made the following
speech:
FOR ExPELLIsze 1A TOILETTE -
"Men generally may be hkened to animals of sort
another. One is like lon another is like fox,
other like WOLF another is like vulture; and when
you to them up at great time like the
breaking out of the Civil Warespeciay at the South,
even than in the North, but in both sections
when you to measuring men at this time, you find
where the is THERE'S the watchdog the English
of home the watchdog of the household Nnetenths
the American people resemble him. Then there comes
vulture who swoops down and tries to get little
bit of out of what is left somehow and who tries
to feed himself and his little vulture family with it ALL
Then another type for which the animal kingdom,
etc.
"I do about how blacksnake smothers bird
over with its slime before swallows it. want to know
about the sme want to know about the poison; want
to know about the swallowing which is coming first.
It is an everlasting fasehood to state that entered
this for the stated by the Senator from Wis
consin his St. Paul speech. They QaFolletes state
ments) were the deliberate Judgment of the who
made the speech he has yet apoogzed for them,
and he will not He has not the moral courage to do it.
There is this difference between falsehood and
lie: falsehood is false statement of fact when you do
not know it is false; lie is false statement of fact
when you it is false. 1t does not make any diff
ference which of these two theories shall
vail about these particular utterances in that particular
speech say that speech at st. Paul was dsoyal in
spirit dsloyal in words, dsoyal in ntendmen disloya
in effect, and disloyal with set purpose"
BY John Sharp Williams, Directing to dismissal Of
charge against LaFoIette in 1919.
Sen T. j. Walsh voted for this minority report and
acclaimed the remarks of Williams.
The majority report dsmissing charges was adopted
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