POLITICS IN WISCONSIN
Onstad, Erick J.
Politics in Wisconsin —By Erick J. Onstad IN his attempt to secure complete control of Wisconsin politics and to unhorse Senator La Follette and Governor Blaine, Senator Lenroot through his...
...The whole plan of the committee will be to mislead and deceive the voters by the pretense of progressive principles, something that the old guard never did...
...A number of other organizations under the guise of other purposes will be allied with the Milwaukee organization...
...The Lenroot organization will be amply financed...
...A "Committee of 4," two women and two men from each congressional district, was named, to which the "committee of seven" was added as members at large...
...The railroads are for subsidies from the national treasury, and the profiteers want relief from taxation and they want tariff protection...
...The organization of "sane progressives" has opened headquarters in Milwaukee and a stream of propaganda is going out from there to the kept press...
...Whatever we may think of the old line stalwarts we must give them credit for fighting under their own banners—not so the "sane progressives...
...To this aggregation of big interests may be added the corrupt press of the state...
...The voters will have difficulty in following the tracks of the "committee of seven" in its sinuous windings in and out of the morasses of dirty politics...
...Thus they plan to shelve the "old guard" who have steadfastly refused to camouflage themselves as progressives...
...The fight to be made on La Follette and Blaine is to be the most aggressive and dangerous to the peace and prosperity of Wisconsin citizens ever staged in this state...
...A chairman and secretary were elected and a statement issued calling a statewide "republican conference" for February 22, 1922, at Milwaukee "for the purpose of considering and endorsing candidates for United States senator and state officers in the ensuing September primary and for the purpose of formulating a platform and adopting plans for a permanent, constructive, republican organization...
...It will have the backing of the Morgans who own the railroads...
...This means millions upon millions piled upon the backs of the common people for the benefit of the Wall street magnates...
...It is a part of the national program of the profiteers and the railroads...
...It will have the support of the tax-dodgers in Wisconsin...
...It will have the support of the national administration through federal patronage...
...It will have the backing of every man and corporation that seeks profits through special favors from the government...
...Thus, this self-imposed committee proposes to relegate to the rear the regularly elected republican organization provided by statute...
...Politics in Wisconsin —By Erick J. Onstad IN his attempt to secure complete control of Wisconsin politics and to unhorse Senator La Follette and Governor Blaine, Senator Lenroot through his "committee of seven" members of the legislature, on October 26th completed his organization of "sane progressives...
Vol. 13 • November 1921 • No. 11
