WHICH SHALL RULE - MONEY OR MEN?
Ekern, Herman L.
WHICH SHALL RULE - MONEY OR MEN? By HERMAN L. EKERN IHAVE been asked to take the chairmanship of the campaign committee of the La Follette Progressive Republican candidates for delegates to the...
...They believe that a movement is worthwhile only insofar as it satisfies the selfish interests of those in leadership in that movement...
...We have before met money with the ballots...
...They were unable to comprehend, of course, that Mr...
...Ekern has given thirty years of unselfish devotion to the Progressive cause and this devotion has been at much expense and sacrifice to Mr...
...We present a delegation who will stand for a national platform against all corruption in government...
...True, their proposals were rejected for the moment by the conventions, but a public demand has forced Congress to accept one by one the principles this little band of progressives has advocated...
...It has the reputation of being politically honest...
...EKERN'S ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE CAPITAL TIMES, MADISON TN other columns of this newspaper today will be found a statement by Herman L. Ekern accepting the chairmanship of the committee which will conduct the campaign in behalf of the La Follette Progressive Republican candidates for delegates to the national convention to be chosen on April 3. «• - * ' I 'HE announcement by Mr Ekern will be re-ceived with satisfaction by the thousands of people in Wisconsin interested in the Progressive movement...
...Ekern to the journalistic mouthpieces of reaction in this state who have been shedding their crocodile tears over the treatment accorded Mr...
...I appeal to every forward-looking, fighting progressive to join in a united campaign to elect the La Follette progressive republican delegates, and in support of a platform that will announce to the nation that Wisconsin adheres to the political principles which have brought to the state so much prosperity and just renown...
...It is the old challenge in Wisconsin: "Which shall rule—money or men...
...For twenty years Wisconsin has been represented at the Republican National Convention with progressive delegations and the progress of the Nation along lines of advanced legislation is due to the impetus of their efforts...
...This same Power Trust now turns its unwelcome attention to Wisconsin...
...Ekern from their own standards, therefore, they confidently hoped that he would pull out of the Progressive movement and sulk when he wasn't nominated for governor...
...Judging Mr...
...It is the old fight again—the fight in which Robert M. La Follette, in campaign after campaign, led the progressive forces to victory over the combined assaults of organized wealth, a controlled press and the solidarity of-privilege and reaction...
...Still greater service awaits progressives who are carrying on the fight today...
...It is...
...Ekern...
...We present a delegation who will support a candidate for president in sympathy with these principles and politically honest and progressive...
...Ekern has again, at personal sacrifice, rendered a big contribution to the Progressive movement...
...for preserving to alkof the people Muscle Shoal,s, Boulder Dam, the Navy Oil Reserves and the right to enjoy our natural resources and the fruits of our national development freed from the exactions of monopoly and graft...
...That reputation is now threatened...
...It will be our purpose to carry on an aggressive campaign to unite all progressives who believe in the principles of government advocated by...
...By HERMAN L. EKERN IHAVE been asked to take the chairmanship of the campaign committee of the La Follette Progressive Republican candidates for delegates to the national convention to be chosen on April 3. I have accepted...
...IN accepting the chairmanship of the committee to wage the delegate fight, Mr...
...The challenge comes from the Power Trust...
...Ekern's action will be an inspiration to thousands of Progressives in Wisconsin who will acclaim his action as showing that there are men in Wisconsin who will give unselfish devotion to a cause...
...They can't understand why a man should be interested in a thing from which he does not personally benefit...
...Ekern's present action...
...It is another indication of the solidarity with which the Progressive forces in Wisconsin are approaching two major political conflicts in Wisconsin this spring and fall...
...our great leader, Robert M. La Follette, in his lifetime...
...Where is there another state with such a matchless record of achievements for the common good...
...They judge him from their own attitude toward a movement...
...With anocher seeming opportunity to bring discord in the Progressive ranks gone glimmering, it will be interesting to sec how the stalwart papers of the type of the Milwaukee Sentinel, the Osh-kosh Northwestern, the State Journal and others will make the political blah which they have written in recent weeks square with Mr...
...We will do so again...
...That a man can honestly and sincerely be interested in the common good without thought of self-aggrandizement is something foreign to their political pharmacopoeia...
...too, a stunning rebuke by Mr...
...Reactionaries as a rule can't understand that sort of thing...
...Ekern at the Milwaukee conference...
...Ekern...
...It was this Power Trust which insolently joined in the wholesale expenditure of money to debauch a neighboring state...
...Wisconsin has a reputation in the nation of which we are justly proud...
...Of the forty or more constructive planks advanced by Wisconsin Progressives, thirty-two' have been written into law...
...As usual, these newspapers hive under-estimated Mr...
Vol. 20 • January 1928 • No. 1
