MR. HUBER IS VINDICATED
MR. HUBER IS VINDICATED THE calumny so viciously perpetrated against the good name and integrity of the Lieutenant-Governor cf Wisconsin, Henry A. Huber, could not have been exposed more fittingly...
...These figures depicting the big campaign expenditures of Kohler in Wisconsin...
...In Wisconsin Philip F. La Follette is carrying on a similar campaign...
...And, as might very well be expected, the results of such threats are promptly forthcoming...
...The city of Cleveland is the county seat of Cuyhoga county, and the Old Guard machine has for years felt as secure in that city as the faithful of Mohammed would in Mecca...
...Huber and two other Progressive officials...
...Oh, no...
...Contrast, the $2,920 used in the Norris campaign, most of which was spent for the bare necessities of such a campaign, with these huge "slush funds" of millionaire candidates and candidates supported by the big millionaire interests...
...The report reveals the fact that the total Norris campaign fun amounted to only $2,~ 920...
...McCormick in Illinois, and the others, have stirred up great resentment in the minds of thinking people...
...T!HE vindication of Lieutenant-Governor Huber is complete...
...In other words, it tells Senator Fess and his pals on the National committee to "be good or you don't get, our dough...
...Everywhere he went, in spite of an unfriendly staiei press, he met with large and responsive crowds, and he won their support...
...he is taking his, case directly to the people, and the enthusiasm that greets him at every hand foretells of his success...
...It would be an insult to the readers intelligence to discuss this report...
...Senator Norris went directly to the citizens of that state with the issues of the day and presented his case straight from the shoulder...
...Of course, going to court was the last thing the Kohler crowd wanted to do...
...Huber that it be brought to trial, it was becoming too hot for the Stalwart crowd that promoted it...
...For nearly eight months they took advantage of every excuse, legal technicality and device to keep the case out of court, and now they have recommended the abandonment of the action in order that the whole thing might be sluffed off as quietly as possible...
...Huber's political enemies last week when the suit they had filed against him or violation of the corrupt practices was withdrawn...
...the real reason for the withdrawal of the suit-was that it was an insincere piece of political trickery and, because of the insistence of Mr...
...Indeed, such manifestations are making it appear more and more evident that the lavish use of money in election campaigns is losing much of its effectiveness...
...They feared the revelations that would certainly be made in such a trial, and their lawyers received instructions to stall at all costs...
...When a candidate, opposed by the forces of wealth and monopoly, can go out among the people to present his case, and with the expenditure of less than $3,000 for a state-wide campaign defeat the favored candidate of the power trust and the big...
...And the public waits...
...And stall they did...
...Walter J. Kohler, Stalwart ring leaders through their stool pigeons began this action against Mr...
...IS OHIO WAKING UP...
...POOR MEN CAN ASPIRE TO PUBLIC OFFICE THE report,of Senator George W. Norris, showing the sum spent in his victorious campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination in Nebraska, has just been filed in compliance with that state's election law...
...says this organ of the Big Business crowd that plays.sugar-daddy to the Old Guard when it must needs fill up the old campaign chest...
...THUS has ended one of the most despicable piots ever engineered against a man in the public service...
...Does it appear that a poor man, without the financial backing of big monopolistic and financial interests or a huge private fortune of his own, would have very much chance of securing public office, if the use of money in campaigns is to be the determining factor...
...THE HOOVER CONFERENCES PRESIDENT Hoover, apparently as the most substantial result of the much press-agented "drought conference" held at Washington last week which was attended by the governors of a number of western states, has announced that the sum of S'10.000,000 of Federal funds will be made available immediately for road and highway construction to relieve the farmers in the drought stricken areas * * * THE results of these conferences always seems to head up into one thing—a promise...
...HUBER IS VINDICATED THE calumny so viciously perpetrated against the good name and integrity of the Lieutenant-Governor cf Wisconsin, Henry A. Huber, could not have been exposed more fittingly than it was by the abject surrender of Mr...
...To satisfy the demands of the Stalwart bosses, an alibi in the shape of 40 pages of legal and political legerdemain was submitted...
...If Senator Norris or anybody like him is to be supported by the Republican national committee and the Republican senatorial committee, no man of moderate opinions ought to hand these committees any funds...
...If such vast sums must be expended in election campaigns, then public office has virtually been placed upon the auction block, and only the very rich or those favored by wealth and monopoly can hope to aspire to the higher positions in government...
...The hearing of the repres: n I a lives of Rig Business and the of the nation at the While House some months conference to consider measures to relieve unemp typical of these Hoover conference When the price and industry had departed cheery words of promis came from the White House...
...Then from the White House mes the announcement that such and such will be done, relief is promised...
...For this devoted service, he has won the support of the people, and when these Stalwart plotters engineered their dastardly attack against him and he demanded the right to face his accusers in court, public opinion rallied overwhelmingly to his support...
...Last January, as a red herring to divert public attention from the investigation into the slush fund campaign of Gov...
...Hoover for two or three days, parade out on the White House lawn and get their picture taken with the Chief Executive by the news cameramen, and depart from whence they came...
...Considering the present unem...
...He has sought no gain or personal aggrandizement for his faithful efforts, but has been content to give every thought and effort in the interests of the people of Wisconsin...
...Last week the attorneys appointed by Kohler to prosecute the suit recommended that it be dropped and that no further action be taken...
...His accusers, beaten before they began, have turned tail and fled without firing a shot...
...Already, since the victory of Senator Norris in the Nebraska Republican primary, Senator Fess and the national committee have given indication by a subtle silence that the national Republican organization would do nothing to further the candidacy of Senator Norris...
...of which Senator Norris contributed but $200, the balance being made up in contributions of various amounts from his friends...
...The Journal of Commerce editorial blandly serves notice on the Republican national committee that if it wants to get campaign contributions from Big Business, it must do just as Big Business desires...
...THOSE who oppose the excessive use of money in election campaigns will, however, find comfort and renewed hope in the Norris victory...
...Knowing the validity of Hoover promises, we should imagine it isn't intended for much more than a gesture for publicity purposes...
...IT is difficult to see how the expenditure of $40,000,000 for road construction is going to bring any very material benefit to the farmers scattered over thousands of square miles of drought deveatated land...
...ployment, it is scarcely necessary to comment on the emptiness of these promises...
...They assemble, go into a huddle with Mr...
...interests, as did Senator Norris in Nebraska, there is reason to believe that the people are becoming aware of the danger of huge campaign slush funds...
...Like Senator Norris...
...It has also been made known to Big Business that the Hoover adminis-nation, although fearing to openly oppose Senator Norris by pporting his Democratic opponent, would be very pleased nr his defeat...
...BIG BUSINESS CRACKS THE WHIP IN other columns of this week's issue of The Progressive is printed an editorial from that spokesman of Big Business, the Chicago Journal of Commerce, commenting on the pre-primary announcement of the newly appointed chairman of the Republican national committee, Senator Fess, that he would support Senator Norris of Nebraska in the fall election if Senator Norris received the Republican nomination in that state...
...And waits...
...Doesn't it look like these nominations, which are equivalent to election, were knocked down to the highest bidder...
...When Big Business cracks the whip, the elephant always jumps...
...Can it be that the people of conservative Ohio are growing weary of the Old Guard domination and are beginning to feel that they have a right to a voice in the politics of their state...
...His victory in the nomination was a victory against the use of huge sums of money in campaigns...
...N this issue of The Progressive is presented a cartoon which strikingly sets forth the huge amounts that have been spent by candidates in other states to secure public office...
...The delegates to the White House invariably go through the same procedure...
...IN darkest Ohio, that rock-ribbed stronghold of Old Guard Republicanism that has long been considered as impregnable to political enlightenment, there came a rift in the clouds last week when organized labor in Cuyahoga county succeeded in nominating in the face of Stand-pat opposition four out of five candidates for the state, senate and seven out of 17 candidates for the assembly in the Republican state primary...
...LaFollette has no hundreds of thousands in campaign funds for brass bands, full page newspaper ads, handbills, tire covers, and other hundred odd ballyhoo devices designed to influence voters...
...Henry A. Huber for 30 years has devoted himself to a sincere service of the public weal...
...As one of the Ohio subscribers of The Progressive remarks, "It's not so bad for a start, is it...
...it wouldn't do for the Old Guard national organization to go against the wishes of the interests that fill up the old campaign barrel...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 38
