La Follette is, as I say, called Red." He ix more conserv n Lloyd George or Maeda He has written a platform that is progressive and definite. For instance he is against child labour, The fight against this ammendmen: promises much bitter feeling. the south they fight it of States Rights. Georgi down almost unanimously refusing ana State to do any thing to better the condition of her {reat crows of cotton mill child-Every one knows "that te and Wheeler will fight hard to carry out. The platform they run on.
What chances have they for election? They have tremendous forces against them. First it ay almost impossible to get any fair report of them or their speeches or their programme. The Big Press will kill them off by misrepresentation, ridicule, garbled reports of speeches cut here and there as is advisable for their ends. People will be told that to elect them will bring horrible financial disaster, a Another thing, the _commos labourer in America, the man who reeds help, education, steady work good fond, it a very' hard man reach, He comes from every land under the sun und speaks every language and to teach him to helo himself is very hard to do especially if his employer tells him that the support of a progressive man will close his shop.
On the other hand the old line parties have made a grand mess of things. Coolidge hi favour the Inst few month has fought for Mellon and his group. He has kept cool, very cool, in the Investigations.
'He has put all the ice on them he dared, Now he comes with Dawes with his Iinois {Supreme Court record, that places him in a very bad light in the matter of common honesty, and a perfect phobia toward' Labour Uni Will the voters put up with these men? Not if the facts can be gotten through the Press the voters. And Davis and Bryan? The Democratic party is all torn n swith its convention fight. Davi is is very far from the type of; man the Democrats usually follow end know. Te would be far more at home with Mr. Taft, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Roots in the Republican party. And Bryan? "Brother Charlie" will take much confidence from the party in the East, will add very little to its hold in the West. "He was put on the ticket solely to keep Willian Jennings from. bolting for he had repeatedly expressed his dislike for Davis and his policies. With Brother Charlie the Vice Presidential Nominee Wi liam J. swallowed Davis, saying: that his opposition was not to him personally but to his principles! William J. often proves how simple minded he is, but I wonder, if he is 70512 banks have fail states In the midwest in the last three: and a half years. This frontier far away it' doesn't make much pression on New York and New Jersey rests, of ide. Cookgge), is with Brother Charlie!
Any way it will be a new kind of turn the whole' politi side down, The whole Labour Organization has come out for La Follette. Macdonald resigned in his favour. He has the Labour hho claims to be and as such. should bbe respected. He has proven himself avery able man with great personal charm. He is a conservative at the head of the, supposedly, radical protesting party, a party torn with bitter strife, and is hitehed with a man who makes the whole campaign seem ridiculous.
Fress for him. La Follette and Wheeler can stand all the light that can be thrown upon them. They will gain with every bit of real study that is made of them or their record. It is quite otherwise with Dawes and Bryan and even Coolidge has much to explain in.his "icing" of the Investigations in Washington His frank alliance with Mellon and Wall Street became glaringly ap-Farent in his very determined support of the Mellon Tax Bill and his effort to make Congress take it exactly as presented. Davis alone of the group seems to stand clean, He seems to be frankly just what La Follette cannot win as things stand, Whether he can get funds and publicity in time to win by November is a grave question. That his strength has greatly infevensed and the hold of the old parties has greatly decreased and that this will probably continue gives the great interest the campaign is now developing. And, with both old parties held by the Trusts, he is a voice of protest, a voice for the child labourer, a voice for the common people who ride in Fords, The Old Party Candidates are 1i ing in Packard Limousines this tim,
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