THE WISCONSIN ELECTION

...The last legislature passed the proposed constitutional amendment providing for the initiative and referendum...

...that America should withdraw from the world court...

...I interpret their will as demanding that the railroads of this country be operated in the interests of the shippers, the workers and the consumers, and not in the interests of speculators...

...Nine Progressive-Republican Congressmen were elected to the House of Representatives, assuring vigorous progressive leadership in that body...

...As this is written, the results of the throe referenda submitted to the people are: 1. Shall amendment to the constitution creating Section 12 of Article XIII, providing for the recall of elective state, county, congressional, judicial and legislative officers by direct vote of the electors, be adopted...

...In the Seventieth Congress this state will have for the first time two Progressive Republican...

...The platform adopted by the recent Republican State Convention pledges the concurrence of the proposed amendment at the coming session of the legislature...

...I shall carry on the fight of Robert M. La Follette, for which he dedicated his life, for true representative government, free from the domination of centralized wealth...

...Yes 148,493* No 141,816 2. Shall amendment to Section 5 of Article V of the constitution, providing that the annual compensation of the governor shall be such sum, not less than five thousand dollars, as may be fixed by law, be adopted ? Yes 152,065* No 172,142 3. Shall the Congress of the United States amend the "Volstead Act" so as to authorize the manufacture and sale of beer, for beverage purposes, of an alcoholic percentage of 2.75% by weight, under government supervision, but with the provision that no beverage so purchased shall be drank- on the premises where obtained...

...In one Milwaukee district Victor Berger, Socialist, was returned to Congress...

...that every newly devised scheme of greed and avarice must be struck down...

...The recall is an effective weapon of democracy...

...Constitutional changes in Wisconsin must be adopted by two successive legislatures and then be approved by a majority, vote of the people...

...They decisively voted for clean government and honest government...

...and that foreign debts owing the American government should be settled upon the same basis as the American taxpayer must pay America's debt...

...Senators, pledged to carry on to the best of their ability the work of Robert M. La Follette...

...There was no progressive candidate against him in the election, and the combination of stalwarts, anti-saloon leaguers, Kluxers and tax-dodging corporations, which accomplished his nomination in the primary, functioned without progressive opposition in the election to give him a large majority...

...in the other, John Schafer, who repudiated the La Follette platform late in the primary, was reelected...

...Fred R. Zimmerman's election as Governor was a foregone conclusion...

...Its ratification is a further indication of the hold which progressive principles have upon the conviction of the citizens of this state...

...They repudiated the Falls and the Daughertys and the abuses of predatory and consolidated wealth, and registered their protest against foreign alliances and entanglements...

...Blaine Pledges to Carry on LaFollette's Fight for Clean Government By JOHN J. BLAINE LAST Tuesday the people of Wisconsin emphatically registered their will...

...I indeed appreciate the confidence that the people have reposed in me, and their endorsement of my eight years of public service—two years as attorney general and six years as governor...

...For every elective state officer, except that of governor, Progressive Republicans were victorious—lieutenant Governor Huber, Secretary of State Dammann, State Treasurer Levi-tan and Attorney General Reynolds, all pledged to the La Follette Progressive Republican platform...

...that federal taxes should be imposed upon the principle of ability to pay...

...They were elected upon a thoroughgoing progressive platform, and regardless of whether they find themselves in the majority or the minority, the true progressives can render great service to the people of Wisconsin in fighting for the fulfillment of both the letter and the spirit of that platform...

...I renew my pre-election pledge that I shall go to the senate free to continue my support to the best of my ability, to the cause of the great mass of the common people...

...Yes 260,540* No 126,132 * (2,094 precincts out of 2,728 in the state...

...that the exorbitant tariff rates be readjusted and reduced, and that the tariff law should be a national law and not a sectional law...

...Their cause shall ever be my cause...

...I shall endeavor through my public service in the senate to retain that confidence...

...that the nation's natural resources be protected, conserved and developed, for the public's benefit...

...The next session of the legislature in Wisconsin affords an opportunity for the Progressive Republican members of both the Assembly and the Senate...

...All true progressives should put their shoulders to the wheel and thus assure the repassage of the initiative and referendum amendment at the coming session of the legislature and its submission to the people for ratification in 1928...

...The adoption of the recall amendment to the state constitution is a great achievement for the progressive movement in Wisconsin...

...that the rights of the individual and the home should be protected and the principles of local self-gevernment upheld and defended...