BLAINE FLAYS MILLIONAIRE RING IN TALK
blaine flays millionaire ring in talk Tells How Kohler Used Cement Contracts for Benefit of Cement Trust (Special to The Progressive) MILWAUKEE—The "Madison Ring" and the "millionaire Ring" were...
...He has a falling memory and cannot think of Lieutenant Governor Huber, of Stough-ton...
...The people are entitled to know that when Governor Kohler's Highway Commission received bids for a million and a half barrels of cement in 1930, the price bid by the fifteen cement companies was identically the same at even- point of delivery...
...That is why the steel trust was allotted 500.000 barrels of cement...
...The Millionaire Ring Is interested primarily in keeping what It has and getting more out of the government," said Senator Blaine...
...Vits, Republican National Committeeman...
...That is why the steel trust was allotted 500,000 barrels of cement...
...They are hated by the millionaire ring because that ring will be divorced from the monopoly of state contracts, and every man who wants to do business with the state will be given the opportunity, upon equal terms, under a Progressive administration " THEY COME OUT WITH THE FACTS (Superior, Wis., sept.' 9—Enclosed find $1.00 for subscription...
...He stops short of characterizing the Progressive Republicans as the 'sons of wild jackasses.' He probably thinks it, but up to date his denunciation is slightly restricted...
...His mind is the master mind, and that master mind has its carpet baggers in Wisconsin and its branch agents in Wisconsin...
...Senator Blaine was speaking in behalf of the candidacy of Philip F. La Follette for governor...
...Mellon...
...As he looks down the lake, the dust of the cement trust blinds his vision to the fact that Secretary of State Theodore Dammann has spent his life in the city of Milwaukee...
...blaine flays millionaire ring in talk Tells How Kohler Used Cement Contracts for Benefit of Cement Trust (Special to The Progressive) MILWAUKEE—The "Madison Ring" and the "millionaire Ring" were compared by John J. Blaine in a speech here this noon before the Exchange club...
...It is a significant fact that while the steel trust, represented by two bidders, got a contract for 500.000 barrels, the remaining 13 companies out of the 15 bidders received on an average 38.-000 barrels each...
...and to the Millionaire Ring were added 23,000 additional millionaires—millionaires made cut...
...He ls following in the footsteps of Mr...
...The Millionaire Ring is interested primarily In keeping what it has and getting more out of the government...
...He declared: "Governor Kohler,in a most desperate attempt to cover up the most extravagant administration in the his-•ory of the state, In the closing days of the campaign turns his wrath upon the mythical 'Madison Ring.' He begins his campaign of calling names...
...The Cement Trust "Let me apply these generalities to a specific case...
...Phil La Follette and the other Progressive candidates are hated by the millionaire ring...
...It wants to control the state government...
...The Millionaire Ring "But there Ls another ring...
...of the profits of war and the sacrifice of American boys...
...The Millionaire Ring looks upon government as something intended for their special benefit...
...Some of its membership doesn't even reside in Wisconsin it has only branch agents in Wisconsin...
...Andrew Mellon of Pennsylvania, where they buy and sell seats in the United States Senate, stands at the head of tnat ring...
...There was no competition...
...Senator Blaine said Kohler seemed to be blinded by the dust of the cement trust on the shore of Lake Michigan and he overlooked the fact that Secretary of State Theodore Dammann has spent his life in the city of Milwaukee...
...And so he conjures up in his mind Phil La Follette and State Treasurer Levitan as the mythical 'Madison Ring' though he excludes Alvin C. Reis, for whom he sheds burning tears...
...He hasn't caught up with his eastern millionaire co-patriots...
...Whatever saving has been effected has been through the reduction of wages to a point as low as 17 and 20 cents an hour in the cement mills and in highway labor and whatever saving there has been, it has all been squeezed out of labor...
...The cement charge hurled by Senator Blaine to Governor Kohler has to do with the allotting of contracts In Wisconsin this year...
...Edwin E. Elingsen...
...He seems to be blinded by the dazzle of the aluminum trust at Manitowoc as he looks up the shore of Lake Michigan, and he overlooks that Attorney General John W. Reynolds has lived a lifetime in Green Bay and the Door peninsula...
...Mellon and his branch agents...
...It is a significant fact that one-third of the cement purchased by Governor Kohler's Commission was allotted to the steel trust...
...And mark you, the Millionaire Ring is hot in its pursuit to control the government of Wisconsin, not for the people of Wisconsin, but for the benefit of the Millionaire Ring...
...You can always make up your mind that when these trust and combinations make large campaign contributions, directly or indirectly, they expect those campaign contributions to return them dividends...
...500.000 barrels went to the Millionaire Ring of Mr...
...We had them during the war...
...The Millionaire Ring is looking after state contracts...
...The Universal Cement company is owned by the steel trust and therein enters the master mind, Mr...
...There is nothing mythical about it...
...Millionaire Ring Wants Profits "Governor Kohler has not told you that the cement trust bagged a goodly portion of the cement contracts...
...The governor has said much about the saving in the construction of cement highways...
...They are hated by the Millionaire ring, not because of any territorial distribution of Progressive candidates...
...I have always admired the way these Ln Follette brothers come out with the facts...
...Be not misled, for you can always trust the millionaire to serve the millionaire...
...Grundy of Pennsylvania and other eastern servants of monopoly and worshippers of the golden calf...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
