Evening star., 1932-10-04
Defeated Faction in State
Primary Holds Balance of
Power in November.
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Today the election would go against
him here and for Gov. Roosevelt
The progressives give the stalwart or
regular Republicans the credit of car
rying on masterful and intensive cam
paign, spreading the fear of loss to all
of the industrial workers of the State.
Factory heads and big corporations told
their employees that If the State went
| for La Toilette they we're just simply
the workers of wholesale, no matter
whether they could prove they voted
for Kohler or not. 1t was up to the
workers to prevent La Follettes nomi-
nation. And as the election turned
out it was in the industrial centers of
| the State that the La FolletteS suffered
their heaviest losses.
Feared Further Loss.
This fear Of further loss to the voters
was the cause, the progressives hold, Of
! the defeat of the Labor party in Eng
| land more than year ago. If it can
be carried on throughout the nation en-
scale comparable to that in which it
was carried on in Wisconsin in the
primary campaign, Hoover, they say,
\ may win yet Every evidence is at hand
to indicate that the Republican national
campaign managers are planning such
a drive If they can get the manufac-
| turerS and business men generally to
back them up.
The regular Republicans in Wiscon-
| sin are more interested in electing
Kohler and the rest of the State ticket
than they are in bringing victory to
President Hoover. That is one of the
weaknesses of the Hoover campaign in
this State. No mention of Hoover and
/ his administration was made by Kohler
! in his primary campaign. Today he is
being pulled and hauled two ways One
group of his advisers urges Kohler to
run his own campaign and to keep
| away entirely from the Hoover cam
paign-not even to indorse the Presi-
dent. Another group insists that Kohler
cannot afford to turn his back entirely
on the national ticket and. further, that
his Endorsement of the President will do
him no real harm, anyway, despite the
fact that it is admitted the Hoover
administration is unpopular In the
State.
Republicans and Democrats are meet
ing here today to draft their State
party platforms. The Republicans may
place In their platform an Endorsement
Of President Hoover. Indeed. it is
rather expected in some quarters they
will do So One political strategist sug-
gested that this might be the extent
Of the Kohler Endorsement Of the ad-
ministration and, that after this plat
form action, Kohler may go ahead and
campaign for himself and the State
ticket and avoid. In his speeches, men
tioning the presidential election. There
Is one thing certain, the stalwarts care
far more what happens to their State
ticket than what happens to the Ma
tional ticket
The Democrats, in their State plat
form, will heartily indorse Roosevelt.
They will continue to indorSe him in
all their speeches throughout the re-
mainder of the campaign. He is their
big card. He will run far more strong
ly in Wisconsin, probably, than will
Mayor Schmedeman OF Madison, the
Democratic nominee for Governor. 1t
is the hope of the local Democrats, in
deed, that the Roosevelt ticket will
carry Schmedeman along to victory.
Split tickets are easy to vote in this
State. There IS separate ballot for
the presidential candidates. The State
candidates are listed on a ballot all
their own. Republicans wishing to vote
for Kohler and Roosevelt, and Demo-
to vote for Roosevelt. therefore, could
easily accomplish their purpose.
The La Toilette Brothers.
Where are the La Toilette brothers.
senator and governor, going to land in
this campaign? 1t seems quite certain
that they are not going to indorse per-
sonally the Democratic State ticket.
There are two reason for this. The
first Is that they do not wish to take
the responsibility Of electing Schmede-
man governor, knowing that the next
year is going to be tough for any man
who becomes governor. If they put
Schmedeman in Office and his admins
tration Is a failure, where will they
stand two years hence? The second
reason lies in the fact that Schmede-
man had, or Is believed to have had.
the support Of the very interests which
backed Kohler, the conservative busi-
the Democrats who had previously
voted for La Toilette away from Gov
La Toilette and Senator Blaine.
So far as the national ticket IS con-
cerned, both the La Toilette brothers will
continue to oppose President Hoover.
It is doubtful they will come out for
Gov. Roosevelt and urge his election
openly They are not sure Roosevelt
is q real progressive. They did not
indorse the candidacy Of Al Smith four
years ago. 1t IS said, for the same rea-
son, and they believe that time has
vindicated their Judgment in that case
for they look on Smith as conserva-
tive today. They have no desire to be
responsible for q Roosevelt victory, If
the New Yorker should win and turn
out to be far less progressive, say, than
Senator Norris of Nebraska believes
him at this time to be. Neither Sena-
tor Bob" La Toilette nor Gov Phil"
La Toilette has said, however, what he
will do about Roosevelt.
Senator Blaine, who was considering
announcing himself as an independent
candidate for the Senate, has now an
ounced he would not enter the race
giving as his reasons Nbat he had not
the money to finance a campaign and
that he did not believe the Progressives,
many Of them poor, should be called
upon to finance 1t. It looks as though
the La Toilette Progressive leaders
were planning to sit tight, without
jumping to the Democratic ticket, and
bide their time for the next two years,
believing that whatever happens in No.
vember they will be in a good position
to go after the Republican nominations
again IN 1884. That Is the year that
Senator La Toilette comes up for re-
election. Also, there Is another guber-
material election that year.
Insist ON Real" Campaign.
Regular Republicans in Wisconsin say