Evening star., 1934-10-14
bob" "LAFOLLETTE
VICTORY FORECAST
AFTER STIFF FIGHT
But Anything May Happen,
Politicians Observe, With
Four in Race.
RADICAL PLATFORM
is OFFERED BY G. 0. P.
Progressive Senators Rush to Aid
of New Party Leader in
Wisconsin Battle.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.

MADISON, Wis, October 13.-Three
weeks before the voting, Bob" La
Toilette is generally conceded re-
election to the United States Senate.
That goes for the politicians, the
political observers and the innocent
by-standers.
The admission that La Toilette has
the edge in the senatorial race does
not mean that he has not fight on
his hands. The Senator himself would
be the last man to deny it. In fact,
one of the things he is constantly
warning his followers against is over
confidence.
He is running as a Progressive, the
virtual head of a new party in the
State. 1t Is the first time he has
sought Office outside of the Republican
party, whose nominee for the Senate
he has been twice in the past. and
twice in the last nine years he has
won. His contests in the past have
been in the party primary-the La
Toilette Progressive wing of the G. o.
P, against the so-called "stalwarts,"
or regular Republicans. When he won
the primary and the nomination, the
contests were all over.
Favorite So Far.
This year he goes into the general
election as an odds-on favorite. But
he has to beat John B. Chapple,
youthful Ashland editor, the nominee
of the Republicans, and John NJ
Callahan, the selection of the DEM
ocrats, not to mention the Socialist
candidate, James P. Sheehan of Mil
waukee. Almost anything can hap
pen in a three or four cornered race
as politicians have discovered in the
past. And so Bob La Toilette is run
ming from one end of the Satte to
the other, making speeches and re-
newing old friendships.
In some respects, Senator La Fol-
lette is lucky in his opponents. Gala
han has been in frequent rows with
other Democrats. He is regarded as
a conservative. He was a former AL
Smith man, and while he has recently
come out for Roosevelt and the New
Deal. the Democrats fear and the
Progressives hope, that many of the
more progressive Democrats who have
supported La Toilette in the past will
vote for him again this year.
Chapple Radical.
p Chapple was the Republican nomi-
nee for the Senate two years ago and
was defeated by Senator Duffy, Demo-
crat, in the Roosevelt landslide. In.
that campaign Chapple ran as con-
servative, regular Republican. This
year, however, he has announced him
self as rank and file" candidate.
He out-La Follettes La Toilette him
self in some of his radical demands.
An ex-service man, he demands the
immediate payment of the soldiers
bonus. He wants the depositors of all
closed banks paid off in full. He de-
mands the cost of production" for
the output of the farmers. He promises
jobs for all and to turn all surplus food
Stuffs over to the needy. And what he
has to say about the bankers and the
utility magnates pales into insigni-
ficance the jibes at those gentry by
President Roosevelt. He is running on
his own personal platform, whether
the rest of the Republicans like it or
not. Many of them do not like it, and
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