WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT
What's It All About By The Man On The Street Rodin's immortal statue. "The Thinker," symbolizes the Progressive voter. * * * The Progressives have been conducting a long, earnest and effective...
...The Hooverites are trying to explain away the terrible depression In business and unemployment with more than 3,000,000 Jobless by telling the people that In a period of 129 years there have been 32 "cycle movements...
...Secretary of State—Paul Block of Newark, N. J. State Treasurer—King Kasten of Milwaukee, head of the Wisconsin Bank Chain...
...It will make a big hit with the Army of the Unemployed...
...We'll say it was an immense vote of protest—more than 111,000 plurality for Phil La Follette for governor, at this writing, and still growing...
...Some of the Stalwarts of Wisconsin are absolutely without a sense of humor...
...The Progressives have been conducting a long, earnest and effective campaign to induce the people to give deep thought to the problems of the day...
...said the Green Bay Press Gazette after the People's Landslide...
...The Wisconsin Stalwarts might have saved part of their faces if they had stuck by Herbert until the bitter end...
...You nee, this Is a business administration, headed by a "superman...
...Aaron M. Brayton of the Madison Journal...
...w The Irreconcllables among the Standpatters of Wisconsin ought to have no difficulty In placing an hide-pendent state ticket In the field...
...Now, just for an example of their rich resources, we suggest this slate: Governor—Col...
...The R. H. bears up bravely, for it stoutly maintains that "Harmony prevails in the ranks of the Regulars...
...The crafty Calvin admita that "the situation Is especially difficult," and he even goes so far as to warn the Con-.«ervatlves that they "must co-operate" to relieve the people who have piled up this gigantic vote of protest against unfair treatment...
...This year the gamblers are singing "The Speculative Blues," for the pockets of the people are empty...
...Attorney General—Tom-Tom Coleman of Madison, Expert on Political Landslides...
...Unfortunately, a "cycle movement" Is not edible, It doesn't provide shelter and it cannot replace worn out shoes with new ones...
...The name La Follette is still magic in Wisconsin...
...Operating on the theory that a poor "alibi" is better than none at all, the national administration is trying-to put the blame for the low pTice of wheat on the shoulders of those terrible Bolsheviks...
...The late lamented Robert M. La Follette, who founded the Progressive movement, was honored with the confidence of the people because he was an honest man...
...And we want to remind Calvin that people do not enter a protest unless they have some substantial grievances to protest against...
...It is magic because it stands for honesty in politics...
...That Hoover Prosperity that has been advertised for months as being "just around the corner" must be afraid to show its face, fpr one of the financial writers in the employ of Hoover-Booster Hearst tells us that 'ACTUAL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT" will be necessary to encourage not only a new demand for stocks but likewise encourage stockholders to retain their investments...
...Here it is: Everyone should spend $6 more than usual during the next vrr, weeks...
...Battling against the tremendous odds of great wealth, the national administration, and lavish press support, Phil La Toilette won the nomination for governor by the magnificent plurality of more than 111,000 because the people saw in him their champion, a man whom they could trust to wrest control of the government from Monopoly, and return It to the people...
...It is simple...
...These are the words used by that eminent statesman, Calvin Coolidge, in his attempt to analyze the revolt of the common people of the state of Wisconsin against the attempt of the forces of monopoly to get a firmer grip upon the government...
...The chicken that waj> to jump into every pot—the solemn promise of Herbert and his supporters only two years ago—must have been sidetracked by a "cycle movement...
...They had found opportunity cut off by the increasing encroachments of monopoly in the shape of mergers and the growth of chain stores and chain banks...
...The machine used by the Madison Monopoly organ in grinding out its political prophecies ought to have a place in the Smithsonian Institution at Washington on the shelf dedicated to models of perpetual-motion devices...
...Lieutenant-Governor—Winter Hverett, conductor of the Madison Journal's "Wailing Wall...
...His word was accepted as gospel truth because through years of public service he had demonstrated that he owed allegiance to no one but the people...
...They realized at last that they had been hoodwinked by the false promises of the G. O. P., and they used the primary election as a day of reckoning...
...From Washington comee the cheering newt that federal taxes will have to be heavily increased next year...
...How suc-secrful this- crusade has been in demonstrated by the great Progressive victory in Wisconsin...
...They had been promised relief in the form of tariff revision and had found themselves burdened with extortionate schedules...
...Indicative of the fear of an aroused public opinion, as manifested in the stupendous victory for Phil La Follette and the entire Progressive state ticket in Wisconsin, stock of the Badger State chain-banking monopoly syndicate, which was floated onto the dear public at around $12.50 a share, had a sinking spell to $7.12 1-2 as soon as the tremendous size of the people's triumph was apparent...
...A rather large protest vote...
...No wonder that they got up on their hind legs and roared out a vote of protest at the ballot box that has echoed and re-echoed from Maine to California, from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico...
...That's the reason that seats on the New York stock exchange have fallen $155,000 from their top price of the current year...
...The National Retail Jewelers' association has evolved a brilliant plan to wipe out the Great Depression that has clouded the Hoover administration...
...It played this refrain: "The Progressive forecast of the result was remarkably close...
...Picture of Madison Journal's mural decorations after swallowing a large dose of Wisconsin Progressive Tonic: "LA FOLLETTE NOMINATED BY 108,000...
...Picture of the mural decorations the day before the primary election on the front page of the Madison Journal (Davenport, la,, Chain-Staiwart G. O. P.-Rabid Anti-Progressive ¦.) SWEEPING VICTORY FOR KOHLER PREDICTED...
...A hard loser is not a happy sight in politics or in sports...
...After the ballots were counted the Record-Herald put on a new disk...
...Another little Hoover Prosperity and Abolition of Poverty note: Milwaukee has opened a new relief station to feed its multitude of poor folks...
...New slogan for Wonderful Wisconsin: "The State that Smashed the Political Auction Block Into Smithereens...
...They have an abundance of excellent material...
...They had been promised prosperity and found themselves jobless...
...They urged Harry Dahl to run as an independent candidate for governor "because he was defeated for lieutenant-governor by a plurality of ONLY 50,000 or so," and they add naively, that he "would likely meet defeat if he makes the race...
...Before the primary election the Wausau, Wis., Record-Herald used to delight in kidding the Progressives and predicting that the voters would put them out of business...
...A year ago the gamblers of Wall street were in clover, raking in millions of dollars from a gullible public, inflamed by a rising market that was being boomed by Cal Coolidge and Andy Mellon...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 43
