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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM MRS. McCORMICK'S POSITION [Warren. Ohio. July 22j—Coneresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick spends a quarter of a million dollars in her senatorial campaign to. as she says, meet...
...We hear a thousand noes from the goodthinking women whose sane and courageous efforts made woman suffrage a possibility...
...I was also chairman of the Progressive Republican County Central Committee in San Francisco in 1912...
...We must keep at it until we havp many men in the Senate like Norris...
...Now is the time to get your friends and neiEhbors to register and be ready to vote to keep the chain stores and banks from closing in on us...
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...C. E. Anderson...
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...A STAUNCH PROGRESSIVE SUPPORTER [Oakland, Cal...
...I am enclosing a check of $3.50 for a years subscription to myself, and four 3-month-trlal subscriptions...
...and resurrect a real People's Party, only to see it die with its leader...
...Knowing that, you have a faithful few subscribers in this bay district, where we are sending some of the crooked politicians to the state prison...
...I hope j-omc day to meet the Senator's courageous sons carrying on the good fight...
...Will these tenderhearted fellows "Baby" Ruth because she is a woman...
...1 had the pleasure of meeting Phil in Thorpe the 19tli and had quite a chat* with him.—Joe Schinittivam...
...July 31...
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...If there were only more La Follette's in this old U. S. A. it might yet become a good country to call home, but not with Hoover in the presidential chair...
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...McCormick's lavish expenditures of money...
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...I have been a follower of The Progressive and La Follette's Magazine for about 10 years, and I have found more truth therein than in any other paper ever published...
...My party died in 1896 when Bill Ryan cap- ' tured the Peoples Party at St...
...I think that Phil La Follette will win the governorship by a majority of 150,000 or more...
...W. Fuller...
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...The La Follette platform has been in accordance with my views ever since I read it, although I have heard some very bad criticism...
...Nickles...
...as she says, meet a "patronage" influence of her opponent...
...July 28.;—I received your letter as to whether I wished to continue subscribing to The Progressive and still being counted among the Progressives of the nation...
...Gunnar Naumann...
...Catt, the disgusting episode recently staged by a woman in Texas...
...What a plausable excuse...
...me offer a suggestion, if you cannot support the 18th amendment, don't take either side...
...HOPES PHIL IS GOVERNOR [New Rome...
...ON WITH THE GOOfl WORK [Merrimac, Wis., July 28...
...and would lead to the destruction of American democracy, for it would mean the placing of every public office on the block to be knocked off to the highest bidder...
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...No "gleaning" by this Ruth...
...and we believe they will condemn It as did their leader, Mrs...
...By the figures from the returns she gobbled up the bulk of the crop...
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...The subscription was originally in the name of Daniel Anderson, who died last January...
...Should the affair land her among the "Lame Ducks," we suggest that President Hoover appoint her to the Farm Board to help stabilize the price of wheat...
...I am hastening to send in my little subscription hoping to help with my mite towards the splendid work that you are continuing in behalf of the stalwart progressivisim exemplified by Robert Marion La Follette...
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...Robert Marion La Follette has foucht and lived for...
...mean more to the American people than all the reactionary principles piled up together...
...Nye, Walsh and others...
...Your Roll Calls are worth all the balance of your fine^apcr, and I don't mean to discredit the other matter...
...Must we excuse the "Gentlewoman from Illinois" because of her sex...
...Thou annointest my income with taxes, my expenses runneth over...
...May the Progressive movement win out and make this a better U. S. A.—Irving Charlson...
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...I would not trade a periodical which published the Roll Calls on all the important measures voted on in the House land Senate for all the periodicals published in thr U. S...
...My efforts pertain to Wisconsin...
...I certainly hope Phil La Follette is our next governor.—Mrs...
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...It is only by the Roll Calls that I know how to vote on an official up for re-election...
...If such men controlled the Senate, then the majority would rule again...
...Thp ease in which Big Business blinds the people in such a way that they get every thing they want from congress and the president, it compels me to think that the American people are not competent for self-government...
...Louis ! and then sold it for a mess of potage when he was not big enough to split with hts party when Judge Alton B. Parker won it back to Big Business in 1904...
...To concede such a political dogma would be nothing less than a prostitution of the electorate...
...I was proud of the opportunity to circulate a petition for La Follette's nomination in 1924...
...I would like to see yen give more space to Roll Call" and especially in the House, we want to know how our representatives vote...
...Allow me to say that the proudest points of my career are the fact that I stumped the state of California for La Follette in 1912, when my uncle...
...Governor Johnson, was fighting for Roosevelt, and that I again was on the national speakers list in 1924 and stumped Washington, Oregon...
...Now, however, the truth is showing through...
...A copy of your paper was handed to me by one of your subscribers, W. H. Ottlessc...
...July 30.,—I have been taking your most valued paper for only a short time, but have got more from it than other papers I have read...
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...Wis., July 27;.—Please send The Progressive to me for one year...
...I am quite a fluent speaker, also speak the German language equally as well as the American...
...I can see nothing promising ahead for the American people...
...J, N, Menne...
...Wis., July 28...
...La Follette started the ball rolling, and now that he is no more...
...And I would advise you to avoid the religious question...
...Should she pass muster here and finally stand before the bar of the senate to take the oath of office in that body which is today the greatest bulwark of our rights and liberties, and which oath Is the envy of so many and the privilege of so few to take, may she meet the successful challenge of a Norris as did others whose seats were questionable,—Hugh R. Fuller...
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...Nebr., June 28.— In regard to your letter as to whether to continue my subscrltion...
...The fundamental principles of Robert M. LaFollette...
...though I walk through the valley of the shadow of starvation, I do fear evil, for I know thou art against me...
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...A VIEW FROM UTAH [Beryl, Utah...
...The La Follettes should be suported for the good they are doing the taxpayers...
...California...
...Keep up the good work you have begun, or rather that Robert M. La Follette...
...Surely unemployment and poverty will follow me all the days of the Republican administration, and I will dwell in a rented house forever...
...Others before her have successfully battled the "patronage" machine on their records of performance, why not Ruth...
...they are all one-sided as I see them...
...ONE OF THE BEST [Nucla, Colo., July 28.j — Enclosed find money order to pay for 3 months subscription...
...Vare, Newberry, Lenroot, and Governor Kohier if they want MellonLsm to be kept out of control of our government...
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...If convenient for The Progressive, Philip and Robert La Follette, John J. Blaine and other adherents to the cause, for which their father...
...Can't afford to miss an issue...
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...Is "patronage" not a contingency to be reckoned with by every person who opposes the re-election of an- administration candidate...
...I hope to see my letter printed in your weekly...
...when we had the honor of listening to the message directly from the lips of Senator La Follette...
...Blaine...
...O. Bahr...
...The following poem was written by a resident of Kiona County, Colorado, and I am sending it in for you...
...we are a united nation and must remean so...
...The first, two are for Big Business only, the last two for the poor man only...
...I trust that you will notice from the enclosed card that I have always been a progressive, even though a candidate for the conservative position of judge.—Albert L. Johnson...
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...Keep up the good work, for there are a lot of us who will stand by the ship no matter how rough the sea...
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...Colo...
...I have written many articles on these and kindred subjects for the Swedish Press and also for other papers...
...No gcntlement it won't work...
...We assure you that wc shall not be dilatory at the polls...
...I think your paper is doing a wonderful work on behalf of the people.—W...
...We know that some people like their beer and others like whiskey, some like to rob and others like to murder, the Japanese wanted equality in California, the southern gentlemen wanted slaves and the Catholics wanted a president...
...DOING A WONDERFUL WORK [Paducah, Ky„ July 29;—Please find enclosed check for $1.50 for my subscription...
...It is up to the Progressives to keep men out, of office such as Grundy...
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...Calif...
...things have changed since Hanna laid her bundle (of dough I down...
...Then the people will rule again.—H...
...as per the enclosed coupon...
...She knew the value of a dollar—she chose the shortest mad to Robin Hood's barn...
...The most of the people you are helping have no money and some would not thank you...
...I have no time for the Democratic* Republican...
...Norris, Kenyon and the Independent Progressive cause...
...Let's hope that the Progressives have a majority in the House after election and that Phil is elected...
...Idaho and Nevada...
...Am glad there are a few men with a conscience and trying to do what is right in public office for the people...
...La Follette...
...Here is the poem: "Hoover i= my shepherd...
...July 24...
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...He restoreth my doubt in the Republican party...
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Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 36
