Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1924, Page 8

mer SERRBRSSETLS5 ARG USSE Zo cSt Obes aSane se PAGE EIGHT. Che Casper Daily Cribune SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1924. Here are the outstanding facts regard- ing Senator Robert M. LaFollette, candidate for President of the United States. 1. Born in Wisconsin June 14, 1855; now in his seventieth year. 2. Admitted to the practice of law 44 years ago. 3. Became Governor of Wisconsin 23 years ago; was re-elected twice and resigned in 1905 upon his’ election to the United States Senate, where he has since served continuously except for lengthy absences during the last session, due to feeble health. 4. LaFollete has doitanted State gov- ernment in Wisconsin since 1901 and his personal machine has been in control of | governmental agencies. During the 23 years. of his control taxes have increased 423 per cent and property assessments have in- creased 235 per cent. During the same period the Wisconsin ponzulation has in- creased 28 per cent. Average wages paid in Wisconsin at this tme are lower than the wages paid in neighboring states. 5. LaFollette sponsored the Non-Partisan League which in North Dakota caused an increase of 400 per cent in taxes in one year; forced 53 private banks out of exist- ence; added $17,000,000 to the State’s bonded indebtedness in one year; estab- lished a State bank that collapsed with a loss of more than $1,000,000 to individual depositors. 6. When the United States Senate voted 78 to 5 to indorse President Wilson’s sever- ing of diplomatic relations with Germany, LaFollette was one of ea five opposing such indorsement. 7. LaFollette spoke in the Senate against permitting the President to arm vessels fly- ing the United Staes flag. 8. LaFollete spoke and voted against the Selective Service act---the draft. 10. LaFollette spoke and voted against application of the Selective Service in the aviation service. 11. LaFollette defended the sinking by a German submarine: of :the Lusitania, in which hundreds of Americans were killed, and denounced the entry of the United States into the World War. These utter- ances were made in a speech delivered in St. Paul, September 20, 1917. 12. LaFollette’s St: Paul speech resulted in a demand by the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety that he be expelled from the United States Senate “as a-teacher of disloyalty and sedition, giving aid and com- for to our enemies and hindering the gov- ernment in the conduct of the war.” 13... A committee of the Senate exam- ined the speech and listened to charges that LaFollette’s conduct menaced the successful ‘prosecution of the war, but he was permit- ed to retain his seat. 14. LaFollette’s speeches and activities caused the late Theodore Roosevelt to de- nounce him repeatedly as the most danger- ous man in America. Colonel Roosevelt said, “He is the worst enemy of democracy alive today,-an American who repre- sents the worst of American character- istics. Senator LaFollette is not a new type; once we called such as he ‘copper- heads.’ ”’ 15. LaFollette’s disloyalty during the war caused the Wisconsin Republican State Cen- tral Committee to unanimously demand his expulsion from the Senate for “treasonable _ and seditious utterances” and for “disloyalty to our government.’ 16. The Wisconsin State Council of De- fense and seventy-one county defense coun- cils called upon him to resign from the Sen- ate and asked the Senate to expel him if = refused to resign. 17: In Sheboygan, Wis., he was hung in effigy as a traitor. 18, The Wisconsin Legislature ‘adopted resolutions formally censuring him. . ~ 19. During the creation of the Repub- lican protective tariff law, now in effect, La- Follette voted against or refused o support... . 86 of the 90 items upon which agricultur- ists and workers are dependent. 20. LaFollette refused to omen: the Japanese exclusion act. 21. The tactics of the bloc of radicals led : by LaFollette in Congress prevented the en- actment of legislation needed for benefit of the country. 22: Lakin incl camiaiptor teenaak idency as the nominee of duly elected repre- _ sentatives of the people, but was chosen by a group of Socialists, labor leaders, radicals and other self-constituted ‘delegates’ to a conference dominated by LaFollette. 23. LaFollette’s platform calls for the Socialist plan. of nationalizing of the rail- roads and other private property. He has _ been clearly defined as a Socialist and is the formal candidate of the Socialist party. The Socialist party in America has officially in- dorsed his candidacy. Prominent Socialists are directing his campaign. Socialists and other radicals throughout the country con- stitute his most active followers. 4. La Follette would nullify the Consti- tution and substitute politics for law by per- mitting Congress to re-enact and make valid Jaws found unconstitutional by the Supremne Court, at present the sole check upon Con- gress, taking from minorities the only pro- tection they have. —Polltical Advertisement.