Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1926, Page 26

RD .- e THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 17, 1926—PART 1. EYES KEPT ON 1228 IN'WIGCONSIN RAGE Future of “La Follette Dy- nasty” Involved—Some Ex- | pect Ultimate Overthrow. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Special Dispatch to The Star. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Octpber 16.— | Stakes far higher than 1926 Isenatorial and gubernatorial victories are being played for in the seemingly apathetic Wisconsin campaign. They involve the future of ‘the “La Follette dy- nasty.” On the surface of things, the power bequeathed to his family by the late progressive chieftain is still theirs, to have and to hold. Actually, it rests on a foundation of sand. In the opinton of keen observers, it will slip from the “dynasty’s” control not iater than two years hence. Two formerly rock-ribbed, thick- and-thin supporters of old-time La Folletteism threaten the family's grip on its ancestral political fortunes. One s Gov. John J. Blaine, who de- feated Senator Lenroot for renom- ination a month agu. The other is Secretary of S ved R. Zimmer- mann, who overwhelmed Attorney General Herman L. Ekern for the gu- bernatorial nomination and Ekern carrfed the i dynasty’s” colors. But, | of fate, the one of them whose victor was far the more ardently desired: Ekern—was beaten, while the one | whose overthrow was preferred— Blaine—was victoriou: 2 Both Skillful Politicians. Both Blaine and Zimmerman are men of inordinate ambition and skill- ful politi-ians. No one who know them and their aspirations, expects | either to tolerate the leadership of Senator “Young Bob” La Follet his gifted younger brother Phil or of the Widow La Follette, who i5 sl a + factor to be reckoned with. J¥iaine and Zimmermann, barring & ®holly unexpected upset, will be elected on November 2. From that hour on Wisconsin looks for a battle to the finish for the commandership-in-chiet of what is left of Wisconsin progres- sivelsm. It will be, on the one hand, 8 fight between Blaine and Zimmer- mann—the one, Senator; the other, governor—and on the other hand, a three-cornered contest for supremacy with “Young Bob" La Follette. Wisconsin at this. hour.gives little or no indication of the impending clash. But that it is coming is not doubted by any man acquainted with the inside workings of Wisconsin's muddled politics. The prediction al- ready is freely hazarded that if “Young Bob” La Foilette wants to be renom- inated in 1928 he will have as tough a. Job of it as Irvine L. Lenroot recently had. Gov. Zimmermann, as he then will be, is accounted thus early in the game a certain rival for the La Fol- Jette seat. With a powerful State or- ganization under his control, as potent as the one which just landed Gov. Blaine in the senatorial nomination, Zimmermann will be a foe worthy of La Follette's steel. Independent Stirs Interest. Meantime interest in the Wisconsin senatorial campaign, which subsided with the primary, has revived with the sudden advent of an independent Republican progressive candidate. He rejoices In the name of Charles Dar- win Rosa. He hopes to become the missing link in the chain “real pro- gressives” are forging for the purpose of throttling “the Madison ring.” A Beloit lawyer and judge, Rosa re-| signed from the Wisconsin State Tax Commission in_order to file for the senatorlal nomination against Blaine after the September primary. Rosa denfes Blaine's right to progressive leadership, just as Zimmermann does. He has certain elements of strength, but nobody in Wisconsin exp Rosa to come within 50,000 or 100,000 of beating Blaine. He entered the lists Iate, has just been forced off the vlat- form by a motor accident and is work- ing with a happy-go-lucky organiza- | tion. Yet Judge Rosa has the active support of Gubernatorial Candidate Zimmermann, the tacit backing of Senator Lenroot and his friends and the good wishes of hosts of stalwart Republicans who shy at accepting Gov. Blaine as the party's “regular’ nominee. Rosa points to Blaine's ' narrow escape from defeat by Lenroot, who ran only 25,000 votes behind in the primary. He alls that in every one of Blaine’ mpaigns since he entered State politics, five yvears ago, both his primary and election major- itles have suc vely sunk. From these circumstances Judge Rosa de. duces that Blaine is in a consistent State-wide slump. and can be sent all the way down the toboggan if “‘real Progressives” and stalwart Republi- cans of Wisconsin do their duty on November Blaine Likely to Win. these Rosa and Roseate he ironical situation that Wisconsin is a solid Republican State ~-so solid that no Democratic party Worthy of the name is any longer dis- coverable. Blaine has won the G. O. P. nomination. Only a tidal wave can submerge him. No such freak of po- Mtical natuse is prognosticated by sea- soned forecasters. In their anxiety to destroy Zimmer. mann for governor, the Blaine-La Fol- lette leaders have just sprung a Ku Klux Klan sensation. They : e in possession of documentary evi dence that Zimmermann is a hooded knight and hand-in-glove with Klux- The object is to alienate from m the immense German and Irish “atholic vote of Wisconsin. Zimmer- ann denies in categorical fashion 3 has any sympathy with the {u Klux Klan. He says the charge ia ficticlous, and rests purely on his chance dismissal of an allegedly fin- competent Roman Catholic offictal. Zimmermann _ declares that Biaine, Fkern and “Young Bob” La Follette all have done things that could quite as justifiably attach a pro-Klan record fo them, although all the world knows none of them is a Klansma The Indiana Ku Klux Klan scan; dals are attracting wide attention in Wisconsin. If they become as sensa- tional as threatened the effects would | spread into this State. Coupled with the hammering to which Zimmer- mann is now to be subjected, despite his denials they would do him harm. His opponent, Charles B. Perry, who poses as the genuine Republican pro gressive candidate, has the support of the Blaine-Ekern-La Follette group. Having failed to destroy Zimmermann in the primary “The Madison ring is_hell.bent-for-leather on killing him off in the election. The odds are heavily against his defeat. Voting on Beer Referendum. Wisconsin is voting on a 2 beer referendum, certain to be adopted by a bumper vote. It will, in fact, be nothing but a wet gesture. It can- not give Wisconsin beer of any higher voltage than the State is now getting until the Volstead act itself is amend- ed. Blaine beat Lenroot by adver- tising in Milwaukee newspapers on the eve of election that “Blaine and beer”’ are synonymous. Wisconsin will get Blaine, but it will not get beer, as is now recognized on all hands. The 2.75 referendum has another joker that renders it virtually mean- ingless. Tt is provided that beer with that aicoholie coptent shall mot bel Against views loom | L4 Paul_Scharf and the Clytie, which won for him a silver lovin, | through its victory over 40 other such craft at the Sesquicentennial in Philadelphia. cup consumed on the premises where it is sold. Judge Rosa, Blaine's senatorial opponent, is running as a dry. He is assailing_ Blaine as a prohibition turncoat, alleging that the governor first aspired to State cffice as a dry and became a wet for political ex- pediency. Blaine is also heing attack- ed on his gubernatorial pardon record. Coolidge stock Is as low in Wis- n as this writer found it in Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. With no “Old Bob” La Follette in the presi- dential fleld, Mr. Coolidge doubtless could carry Wisconsin by nearly old- time Republican majorities against any Democrat. But Lowden or Dawes unquestionably could take a national convention delegation away from the President in a contest. The administration’s world court attitude seems mainly responsible for Mr. Coolidge’s unpopularity. Court No Longer Issue. The World Court evaporated as an issue’ with Lenroot's primary defeat, which was largely due to his court leadership in the Senate. Wisconsin is mildly interested in the Pennsyl- vania_and Illinois slush fund scan- dals, because “Young Bob” was one of Senator “Jim” Reed's lieutenants in bringing them to light, but the State is not shaken with any moral indignation about the Vare-Smith episodes. Tariff revision in the farmers’ interest is advocated by all candidates, “Young Bob" La Follette's first year in the United States Senate has evoked nothing but commendation in Wisconsin, even among Republican stalwarts who never trained with his father. The son is considered here to have given a modest, moderate and effective account of himself in Washington and risen creditably to all the opportunities that have come to him. If he has to fight for politi- cal life in 1928, it will be because two Insatiably ambitious men—John J. Blaine and Fred R. Zimmermann— now that the old king is dead, are respectively determined that his own shall rest on their heads. Young Phil” La Follette, Bob's younger brother, has political hopes. He has set about to realize them in | the exact place his distinguished father began his public career—the district attorneyship of Dane County at Madison. “Young Phil” is bril- lant and forceful. The governorship 1 id to be the first touchdown he is anxious to score. (Covyright. 1926.) FUMES KILL STUDENT AT BRIDGEWATER, VA. Gordon K. Hoover, a Junior, Said to Have Turned Gas Against Freshman Party. Special Dispatch to The Star STAUNTON, Va., October 16— Gordon K. Hoover, 19 years old. a Junior class student at Bridgewater, Va., was killed Thursday night in the chemical laboratory of the college, by hydrogen-sulphur gas. It is reported Hoover released gas from a generator to break up a fresh- man party, not thinking any one would be harmed. In an attempt to turn it off he was overcome by its fumes, Five other Bridgewater students attempted to enter the building and | were affected. BULLET WOUND FATAL. RICHMOND, Va., Oatober 16 (#).— Walter R. Robbins, 66, real estate deal- er, who was shot through the neck at his home here this morning, died at a local hospital shortly after 2 o'clock. 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An agreement among the contend- ing elements within the cabinet had been almost reached when Stefan Raditch, minister of education, was called a political ape and clown by one of his radical colleagues in the premier’s anteroom last night. After that, efforts toward a reconciliation between the radicals and the followers of Raditch were futile. At the time of the incident M. Raditch was negotlating for a declara- tion that the Croat flag should have equal rights on government buildings in Crotia with the Serbian flaz. He also was asking that the Zagreb in- cident, fn which he plaved a prom- inent part, should not be mentioned in the protocol of a new coalition that is under negotiation. The incident hinged about indiscreet statements which are said to have been made by M. Raditch on the occasion of the visit of a group of Czechoslovakian deputles to Zagreb. 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With a 25-knot north-northwest breeze holding throughout the race, the Bluenose gained four minutes on the 271 miles sailed off the wind, admittedly the Hallgonian's strong point of sail- ing. On the 123 miles of windward work, making up the 40-mile course, the Bluenose gained 27 minutes. The official elapsed times, constituting a new record for the course, were: Bluenose, 4 hours 15 minutes 35 sec- onds; Haligonian, 4 hours 4 minutes 30 seconds. Had 4 Seconds Start. The Haligonian, with an excursion vessel under her lee, was prevented from bearing away, and crossed the starting line 4 seconds in advance of ‘the gun. The vessel might have been recalled, but Walters, who followed with the Bluenose 8 seconds later, gamely insisted on going on with the race. He succeeded in passing his ri- val shortly after the two had jibed around the first mark with Bluenose in the weather position. 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