WISCONSIN PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM AND TICKET
Wisconsin Progressive Platform and Ticket ZONA GALE is Wisconsin's foremost author, poet and dramatist. She is also a foremost citizen of Wisconsin. She meets her political responsibilities with...
...Accordingly, Representative Peavey was ousted from the Rivers and Harbors committee at the last session, but he has continued his fight for the interests of the interior states and his own district...
...The investigation of the Illinois primary now in progress uncovers a no less deplorable political condition in another state where great interests are shown to have employed enormous slush funds to obtain special privileges from government...
...It advocates treaty agreements with all nations for the outlawry of war...
...Next to peace and war women are interested in economic questions...
...He should be returned to Congress by an overwhelming endorsement Of the voters...
...This "grand old man" will be 76 years young on September 8. He will be renominated by a constituency that appreciates faithful service, unsurpassed ability, and virile, energetic labor which time has not diminished in Henry Allen Cooper...
...Summing up the situation, this wise philosopher and publicist said: "One is not thinking of minor routine disagreements in method nor even in attitude, but of the national and international issues of progressivism...
...Democrats, 183...
...Senator La Follette said of this court: 'Its chief function will be to look after the safety of the loot of the makers of war.' He fought this World Court, from the first—not an ultimate World Court, but this World Court...
...Nearly all the money spent in the United States for maintenance of the home—for food, clothing and shelter, is spent by women...
...Wisconsin will, I am confident, serve notice at the primary September 7 th that her people value faithful public service and will elect a delegation to the 70th Congress that demonstrates there is no weakening of the progressive lines in this state...
...As Zona Gale says,—women are first of all concerned in peace...
...Women are directly interested in a fair distribution of taxes...
...Women want reasonable freight rates because freight rates affect the price of almost everything we buy and sell, and this is also true of the tariff...
...He is tireless as worker and outstanding for bis championship of progressive principles...
...It is generally conceded that the Progressives, who were the only group to make a real fight against the Mellon tax plan, the Muscle Shoals grab, and other coalition schemes put through the House at the last session, will greatly increase their strength in the November elections ' and in the primaries...
...The foreign policy pledged by the progressive platform would keep us out of European quarrels and foreign wars...
...Later he served with distinction for six years as chairman of the industrial commission of Wisconsin...
...Lawrence waterway project and opposed the effort to divert the proposed channel through New York state...
...He has served longer in that-body than any other sitting member and today he is as close to his constituents and as uncompromising in his devotion to their interests as at the hour he arrived in Washington March 4, 1893, to commence his service...
...T SHALL VOTE for and give my best support to Herman Ekern for Governor...
...We are for conservation of our forests, for more parks and playgrounds and places iof wholesome recreation...
...He was the chief beneficiary of the Insull slush fund...
...He is public spirited and knows well the problems of the people of the 2nd District where he has always lived, and with those interests he has always been identified...
...Loyal citizens of the United States must not be satisfied to express their indignation at the befoulment of—the fountain head of government, in words only...
...They want something which will guarantee to their sons a future free from war...
...There are now many candidates for the various offices in the Wisconsin primary to be held September 7. I shall vote for those candidates who have unitedly pledged themselves to a platform of principles and to a constructive program which I know to be vital to the progressive movement which stands today the foremost agency for the ^preservation of government in the public interest...
...The investigation of the Dubois primary is not concluded, but thus far nearly a million dollars has been shown to have been used in an attempt to debauch the electorate of this great common-wealth...
...As a private citizen, as State Senator, as Attorney General, as Governor, John Blaine's record demonstrates beyond question that he has the honesty, courage, ability, understanding and power to serve the public interest and to withstand the pressure of special privilege...
...They understand that in any state, local friction, if it exists, does not bulk very large beside the basic issues of the progressive cause in its national and international aspects...
...That is the position of Mrs...
...so powerful was the hold over its rates that the company, through Emmet Studebaker, "kicked in" to the pot raised in behalf of Colonel Smith...
...In common wtih all sincere Progressives, I greatly regret that in this critical campaign, Representative John C. Schafer of the fourth district has of kite denounced some of the major planks of the Progressive platform and has repudiated sound Progressive principles long advocated as an essential part of the Wisconsin Progressive program under the leadership of Robert M. La Follette...
...I look forward to continued cooperation and united effort in behalf of public interest in the 70th Congress with Congressmen Cooper, Nelson, Frear, Browne, Lampert, Beck, Schneider and Peavey, and with Kading as successor to Congressman Voigt...
...Representative Frean almost single handed, fought one MeBon tax bill after another as a member of tie Ways and Means committee, and the Mellon plan, with its repeal of the inheritance tax and other gratuities to the rich, did not get through the House until this brave Progressive was ousted from the Committee...
...Progressive Republicans, 12...
...In looking back over those long years there was never a time when he was needed that Herman Ekern was not at Mr...
...it denounces dollar diplomacy and all forms of imperialism...
...John M. Nelson, 3rd District, has fought all his life in the front rank of the Progressive movement and is rounding out twenty years of brilliant service in Congress...
...Representative Lampert has stood by his guns throughout his service, and as a result was deprived of the chairmanship of the Committee on Patents as a penalty for serving the Sixth District instead of knuckling under to the Old Guard "bosses...
...It is women who must manage, scrape and save, to make the depreciated dollar meet the increasing cost of living...
...His loss can only be retrieved by the election of a Progressive Representative in the Second District who will carry on the work of "Ed" Voigt Hon...
...WISCONSIN CAN SEND BACK TO WASHINGTON WHAT WILL IN ALL PROBABILITY BE THE MOST POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL DELEGATION ANY STATE WILL HAVE IN THE 70TH CONGRESS BY ELECTING THE PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN THE SEPTEMBER PRIMARIES AND THE NOVEMBER ELECTION...
...La Follette carried throughout a quarter of a century of a political struggle...
...Fowler knew about lilies was that they were beautiful and that their production and sale had built up a comfortable little fortune for her father.—Dearborn Independent...
...He voted for Representative Cooper against Gillett, the Old Guard choice for Speaker...
...IN THE "fundamental struggle against "" privilege," as Zona Gale puts it, there is basic need for united effort on the part of Progressives, and there is great value to the voters in a public declaration of principles by a group of candidates who assume joint responsibility for definite fulfillment and performance of platform pledges...
...They know roughly what our two possible candidates stand for...
...A close student of all economic questions, an indefatigable worker, and a public servant of the highest type, Representative Browne has been a tower of strength to the Progressive group in Congress...
...T EARNESTLY commend Zona Gale's conclusions in support of Governor Blaine's candidacy for the United States Senate...
...In Pennsylvania the corruption fund of nearly three million dollars disclosed as expended in the recent primary demonstrated to the country that special interests seeking special favors from government were debauching the electorate to an extent unknown since the days of Rome...
...Even the Illinois Power and Light Company, in which Senator McKinley is a heavy investor, was not immune from the pressure to contribute to the campaign of his opponents...
...Mrs...
...Education is a subject of supreme importance to us...
...Representative Lampert voted against the Esch-Cum-mins law, the Mellon tax plan, and the Muscle Shoals grab...
...Ekern by the people as Governor as an epoch in progressive government...
...They are watching only the great issue, the old struggle of the people against special privilege...
...Necessary to a majority, 218...
...There are twelve senators—and Senator Irvine L. Lenroot is one of the twelve— up for re-election this year, who voted to seat Newberry...
...I look upon the election of Mr...
...Joseph D. Beck, Seventh District, has a Progressive record for his three terms in Congress which cannot be surpassed by any member of House or Senate...
...They should all be retired to private life because they registered their approval of the debauchery of Michigan and set a precedent for what has followed in Illinois and Pennsylvania...
...Sixth District, came to the House ten years ago without the endorsement of the late Senator La Follette but for a decade he has fought without flinching for Progressive principles through many of the hardest battles ever waged in Congress...
...Schafer is entitled to credit for his past record which shows him generally voting with his Progressive Wisconsin colleagues...
...Frequently he has clashed with the Old Guard machine in Congress, and it is doubtful if the "bosses" would find greater satisfaction in the defeat of any other member of the House than "Joe" Beck...
...As a member of the House for ten consecutive years, Representative Voigt has justified the confidence of his constituents and has given unstinted, devoted service to the progressive movement...
...They know that Governor Blaine, three times the Wisconsin progressives' successful candidate for governor, had two years ago the endorsement of their national leader...
...C. A. Kading, of Watertown, has the active support of Congressman Voigt and of progressives generally in the Second District...
...Fowler took over the business in 1912 at the request of her father who wished to retire...
...They must concentrate on cleaning up Congress and in otherwise expressing their will that government by the people as defined by Lincoln shall be preserved...
...Henry Allen Cooper, 1st District, is the dean of the House...
...Above all, women want this government of ours preserved for our own and future generations from Teapot Dome scandals, from the corruption of Newberry ism and from the destroying influence upon democracy of organized wealth as recently disclosed in Pennsylvania and Illinois...
...Unless we can keep the streams of democracy free from the contaminating influence of such corruption as has been uncovered in these states, our experiment in democracy must ultimately fail...
...The Wisconsin Congressional Delegation IT is a well known fact that the Progressive Republicans from Wisconsin are the backbone of the Progressive group in the United States House of Representatives...
...Not, I think if the mothers will go to the voting places, and vote as they believe...
...It is likewise generally conceded that while the Republican regulars are in ill favor throughout the middle west and west, the country has been so nauseated by the Democratic policy of unconditional surrender at the behest of the Mellon-Coolidge leadership, that the people are loath to give the Democrats outright control of either branch of Congress...
...This united action excludes no one from the primary...
...I too shall vote for him and give him my best support on the high ground that he is right "on- the fundamental struggle against special privilege," and because when elected, I believe that on "every important issue his vote will be a vote for the people...
...La Follette found great comfort and based much of his hope for the future on his faith in Herman Ekern's political ideals and devotion to the progressive movement and on his rare fitness and extraordinary preparation for leadership...
...In the proposed World Court, the world mothers thought at first that they saw such a hope...
...I have faith that the great majority of the citizens of this country will rise in their might to^punish those special interests and those political organizations which have jointly conspired to make government serve their selfish greed, regardless that their course deals a death blow to democracy...
...Edward E. Browne, 8th District, has been seven terms in Congress and has won recognition as one of the ablest members of the House...
...Helen Fowler, of Washington, who succeeded her father, W. B. Shaw, some years ago as operator of a huge lily farm at Kenilworth, a District of Columbia village, only six miles from the White House...
...At that time all Mrs...
...Florian Lam pert...
...First of all, because I believe him to be a true servant of the public interest and because his record as private citizen, as Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, as State Insurance Commissioner and as Attorney General, proves that he is an outstanding, able, incorruptible champion of the inherent rights of the people against the /encroachment of organized wealth...
...Governor John J. Blaine was introduced by Zona Gale when he spoke in Portage recently in his campaign to succeed Irvine L, Lenroot to the Senate...
...Kading is a self made man and is especially strong with the farm and labor groups...
...He was six years District Attorney of Dodge County, seven years City Attorney and two years Mayor of Watertown...
...It was ~ y...
...We want our lakes and streams protected from pollution...
...The Republican regulars would lose control of the House by losing 17 seats at the polls...
...La Follette's side working zealously and giving unselfishly and without stint of his sympathy, energy and time, always identifying himself absolutely with the cause...
...The corruption of the electorate in Illinois and Pennsylvania raises an issue as great as the government itself...
...He was born on a farm in Dodge County, earned his way through school...
...Representative Beck came to Washington splendidly equipped for service as a legislator...
...Miss Gale said: "Mothers are opposed to the World Court and women generally are coming to realize that the present World Court is not the agency of peace which they believed it was...
...LADY MAKES A LIVING RAISING LILIES How would you like to be the owner of the largest water lily farm in America...
...A resourceful parliamentarian and a giant on the floor, Representative Nelson helped unhorse "Czar" Cannon a dozen years ago and should be returned to help repeal the "gag" rules restored under the new regime of "Czar, Nicholas...
...WISCONSIN CAN THROW THIS CHANCE AWAY AND HELP TO STRENGTHEN THE HANDS OF THE REACTIONARY REPUBLICAN-DEMOCRATIC COALITION BY ELECTING STALWARTS AND PSEUDO-PROGRESSIVES IN THE PLACE OF THE WtlED AND TRUE CONGRESSMEN WHO HAVE STUCK TO THEIR GUNS UNDER FIRE AT WASHINGTON IN WISCONSIN FOR YEARS...
...t In any event, there is an excellent prospect that the Progressive Republicans in the next Congress, by reason of the close division between regular Republicans and regular Democrats, will hold the balance of power, giving them a determining voice on much legislation of vital importance to the people...
...it opposes conscription, universal military training and excessive expenditures for military ends...
...Throughout his district his faithful public work has bean generally endorsed...
...IF THE PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN RESERVE TO THEMSELVES THE BIGHT TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS THEY WILL RENOMINATE ON SEPTEMBER 7TH THE MEN WHO RECOGNIZED NO "BOSSES" EXCEPT THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS...
...Colonel Frank Smith, who succeeded in obtaining the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate, is Chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, which has jurisdiction of public utility regulation in Illinois...
...Women want the necessaries of life free from monopoly control and exorbitant prices...
...All the Progressive and independent groups combined, control about 18 votes, with the Wisconsin delegation furnishing the majority of this group, and with perhaps about 50 of the members listed as Republicans and Democrats ready on some occasions to join with the Progressives on particular measures...
...He was for many years a friend of Senator La Follette, is pledged to the Wisconsin Progressive platform and is exceptionally qualified to become Congressman Voigt's successor in the 70th Congress...
...It is likely they will suffer such a loss but it is also likely these seats will be occupied in some-cases by Progressive Republicans rather than by Democrats...
...Women generally and mothers in particular wish above every political possibility for some assurance of world peace...
...These Wisconsin Representatves had given such able public service in the House and were so feared by the Old Guard of the Coolidge administration that at the outset of the 69th Congress Speaker "Nick" Longworth, Majority Leader Tilson of Connecticut, and other Coolidge leaders assumed to "read out of the party" and to oust from their committees the entire group of Congressmen elected by the Progressive Republican voters of this state...
...It is with no lack of appreciation of other loyal leaders of the good progressive fight that I speak especially of Mr...
...In considering the records of the Wisconsin members of the House, in the order of their seniority, the people of this state will understand why liberal men and women the nation over, have come to refer to the Wisconsin group as the "banner Progressive delegation of Congress...
...In my judgment, Herman Ekern is from every standpoint, the candidate for Governor who can be relied upon to give Wisconsin a period of unexcelled and extraordinary advancement in every department and function of state government...
...They want the future world free from the horrors and waste of war...
...Hubert H. Peavey, 11th District, is serving only his second term in the House, but in less than four years he has made a place for himself among the most consistent fighters for Progressive measures...
...George J. Schneider of the ninth district has served two terms in Congress and in this short time has made a real record of conspicuous service to both farmers and laboring -men...
...We are interested in good roads, public health, elimination of disease...
...If the festering foci are not eradicated, the infection will spread until the entire system of representative government has been undermined...
...The issue thus raised is greater than factions and parties and transcends in seriousness all other matters of public concern...
...In a communication to The Capital Times, Zona Gale states that she will vote for John J. Blaine for the Senate as a matter of course because he (is right son the"fundamental struggle against special privilege," and "if he is elected, I shall know that on every important is'sue arising in Congress his vote will be a vote for the people...
...Edward Voigt, of the 2nd Congressional District, much to the regret of Progressives of the state and nation, has announced his determination not to be a candidate for re-election...
...Corruption the Deadly Foe of Democracy THE Senate Committee investigating campaign expenditures has justified its creation in the work thus far accomplished...
...Ekern's high qualities of mind and character and of the great personal obligation I feel for the way in which he shared at all times and under all circumstances the heavy load which Mr...
...Representative Beck also has unusual equipment as a legislator on matters affecting labor and the consumer, having been appointed by Gov...
...He is a "dirt" farmer and knows the agricultural problems of his own district and of the country as few men know them...
...They have reason to trust Wisconsin progressives in choosing their United States senator to focus attention on that issue and on the national growth of the movement...
...Five states have just endorsed senatorial candidates who would stand with Senator La Follette in bis opposition...
...senta-tive Frear who led the fight ;:ji4nst the coalition tax bill on the House floor and he has furnished the rallying cry for Progressives on countless other occasions...
...T APPEAL to progressive voters, and especially to progressive women voters, of Wisconsin to consider the platform pledges which Blaine, Ekern, Hub-er, Dammann, Levitan, Reynolds, candidates respectively for United States Senate, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General, have made to the people of Wisconsin...
...His district has vital interests in dairying, forest and stream conservation, and the guardianship of Indian lands, and on all of these matters Representative Browne speaks an authoritative voice in the House, and has rendered signal service to his constituents...
...The party division in the House, as now constituted, is: "regular" Republicans, 235...
...Hon...
...Representative Peavy has stood four-square for the masses of the people against special privileges sought by the corporations and on every roll-call has opposed such measures as repeal of the inheritance tax, increased appropriations for militarism, the leasing of Muscle Shoals, increase of freight rates under the Eseh-Cummins law, and enforcement of "gag" rules...
...Women are especially concerned in public ownership of the nation's water power and in the development of a super-power system, for which the Progressive platform is pledged, which will insure convenient labor saving electric power at cost to all the homes of our land...
...they are inherently opposed to the sales tax and other Mellon plans of taxation, which relieve swollen fortunes of their just share of the tax burden and wrongfully place it on the masses...
...Personally unselfish, ambitious only for the public welfare, endowed by nature and training with the highest gifts of statesmanship, his administration will be notable for constructive policies carried out with wisdom and determination in the interest of the great majority...
...Therefore surely those who are watching what we shall do for the larger issues of progressivism, can logically expect of Wisconsin progressives one course: Steady support of Governor Blaine for United States senator...
...Iowa and North Dakota have already voiced their protest, Wisconsin will soon be heard from, and in other states there is offered to the voters at the pending elections an opportunity to register their everlasting determination to retire from public life the public servants who have aligned themselves with the great interests responsible for this debauchery...
...I know Mr...
...Representative Beck has specialized in Congress on legislation for the protection of the dairy industry and is the author of several important bills to shield the markets of Wisconsin farmers against oleomargarine and "filled" cheese products...
...The public was shocked at the revelations but was inclined to regard Pennsylvania as an isolated case...
...In four later campaigns his record won him the support of Senator La Follette and the majorities won in his district on his own merits have steadily increased...
...Representative Schafer served as a soldier in the World War and was especially active at the last session of Congress in an investigation which resulted in the retirement of Commissioner Fenning of the District of Columbia, a Coolidge appointee, who was shown to have collected a fortune in fees from helpless veterans lodged in hospitals and insane asylums...
...Insull, head of a gigantic public utility combination, was discovered contributing tremendous sums of money for the purpose of controlling the nomination of candidates on all tickets whatsoever, who might, if elected, hold positions of power in the valuation, regulation, taxation and franchising of his public utilities...
...She meets her political responsibilities with the sound practical wisdom and judgment you would expect from the creator of the immortal characters of Miss Lulu Bett and of Friendship Village...
...James A. Frear, 10th District, is serving his seventh term in Congress and was never a greater power in the House than he is today...
...They must act...
...Other public utility interests also contributed to Colonel Smith's campaign fund...
...In season and out, Representative Peavey has worked for the St...
...Is it conceivable that the Wisconsin primary will not stand with him too...
...Independents, 2; Farmer-Labor, 2; Socialists, 1. Total, 435...
...One is not thinking of Wisconsin progressivism alone, but of the principles of the six million progressives who cast La Follette votes a year and a half ago...
...Today they question it...
...La Follette in 1901 as commissioner of labor and industrial statistics, a position he held for ten years...
...They must use their ballots...
Vol. 18 • August 1926 • No. 8
