A VICTORY FOR AMERICA!
White, William Allen
A Victory for America! What La Follette's Reelection Means By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE {In hi$ paper, "The Emporia Gazette, " July 19, 1916) 'J'HE ELECTION of a President is no more distinctly a...
...He will have to stand against malice posing as patriotism and he will have to combat not merely open bribery, but corruption masking as state pride and national honor...
...but by fighting with all the ardor of a crusader and all the intelligence of a trained political general...
...But his enemies are his best recommendation...
...Robert La Follette is by all odds, the biggest man in the United States Senate...
...It is after him now...
...For not once has he ever lined up with special privilege...
...What La Follette's Reelection Means By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE {In hi$ paper, "The Emporia Gazette, " July 19, 1916) 'J'HE ELECTION of a President is no more distinctly a national matter than the re-election of Senator Robert M. La Follette in Wisconsin...
...His fall will mean a triumph of money and privilege in America...
...For no public official in the White House, on the Supreme Bencb or in Congress in a generation has been more truly and worthily a national public servant than Senator La Follette...
...So he is battle-scarred and weighted with enemies...
...And when he wins—what a victory it will be—not merely for Wisconsin bat for Ame.rinai...
...Every fight has been won upon its merits, after a fierce contest...
...The good sense and good judgment of the people of Wisconsin has been too often tried to admit of a doubt...
...he will have to fight against half truths twisted into vicious falsehoods...
...Wbat a record of political victories his career has been and not once has chance favored him...
...Moreover, he has seen these demands met, ideals realized and plans mature, not by sitting idly by and hoping...
...His record vote is a guide in the Senate to the brave wise statesmanlike course in every crisis...
...He has seen more of his demands met, more of his ideals realized, more of his plans mature into reality than any other Senator who has been in public life in this generation...
...Yet he will win...
...Always has he been fighting for more equitable economic conditions for the people...
...Senator La Follette will have to meet lies...
...The aristocracy of organized aggrandized wealth and of crafty political plutocracy knows Senator La Follette for its uncompromising foe...
...Of course it will not fight fair—this secret power that stalks in every state seeking to sweep brave clean men from politics...
...always has he stood for broader and more democratic control of this government...
...It never sleeps...
...He has hit the enemy line at its strongest point, and has gone through...
...His scalps are his laurels...
...No section, no class, no state, no cult or creed or even party has been able to win his support as a United States Senator away from a broad, courageous, intelligent conception of the duty to this whole nation...
Vol. 8 • August 1916 • No. 8
