"THE TARRIFIC AND UNSCRUPULOUS FIGHT AGAINST LA FOLLETTE HAS BEEN IN VAIN"
"The Terrific and Unscrupulous Fight Against La Follette Has Been In Vain" A Few Recent Comments on Senator La Follette's Services THE nomination of Senator La Follette will be followed...
...He said he heard I was going to Wisconsin for Senator La Follette, and when I said it was true, he began to argue with me...
...The big eastern dailies and the interests back of them are against him...
...The people of Wisconsin have once again vindicated their right to citizenship and the obligation and duties of free men...
...THE name of La Follette has been associated with many a fight for human freedom...
...Wisconsin will be performing a public service by keeping him in the Senate.—SPRINGFIELD (MASS...
...Hats off to Battling Bob La Follette of Wisconsin!—ARTHUR CAPPER IN THE TOPEKA (KANSAS) DAILY CAPITAL...
...I want the people of Wisconsin to see how important it is to the nation that La Follette be sent back to the United States Senate...
...YOU WOULD scarcely believe what pressure is brought to bear in Washington when it gets out that one is going to do some work for La Follette...
...So have the mining interests, the munitions traders, the railroads, the em-ployers of children, the insurance interests, the shipping interests...
...Public interest would suffer without him...
...He is about to enter upon the period of his greatest strength and power in national affairs...
...The La Follette law has destroyed the last vestige of legalized slavery on this continent...
...This distinguished citizen worked with me at length, telling me what a disturber Senator La Follette is, that he isn't a Republican, and so forth—all the threadbare things they say against La Follette...
...Organized wealth and every evil influence in the country has been anxiously hoping that the voters of Wisconsin would defeat La Follette and thus remove the strongest and ablest advocate of good government and popular rights...
...He is a man of the people, the greatest force in the Senate in making the Republican party an instrument for good government...
...The steel interest has its representatives in the senate...
...If he is defeated it will mean the end of the altruistic struggle for many years...
...All the world loves a fighter, quite as much as it does a lover, and when the fighter is battling in the cause of the people, his triumph is an occasion of rejoicing...
...On the other hand the progressive forces of the nation have earnestly and anxiously hoped for his vindication and success...
...At no time in the last ten years has there been a man in congress who has stood out so boldly as a leader of progressive thought and action as has Senator La Follette...
...The victory he has won entrenches La Follette more firmly than ever before in his leadership of the Senate...
...He was especially active in introducing and pushing measures providing for employers' liability, limiting hours of railroad men, protecting postal employees, eight-hour day and over-time for workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the government, exempting labor organizations from corporation tax, proper clearance on railroads, protection and liberation of American Seamen, amendment to allow passes to widows of railroad men, amendments to Commerce Court Act limiting the issuance of injunctions and reducing sixteen hour law to fourteen, and eight-hour day for women in the District of Columbia...
...No matter what changes there may be in the government at Washington La Follette will now be the big dominant figure in the upper house of Congress...
...SENATOR LA FOLLETTE has been tireless, able, clean, courageous in doing the things which he believed to be to the best interests of the people of this country...
...The machine politicians are all afraid of him because he is a man of great ability and a man they cannot control...
...I won't forget that in a long time...
...If Senator La Follette is not returned to the United States Senate it will be the severest blow that could be dealt the progressive movement throughout the country...
...Senator La Follette is the people's representative...
...THERE is something fine and inspiriting in ths news that comes from Wisconsin of the success of Senator La Follette in the primaries there...
...When you find a man who works for you, stay with him...
...La Follette's re-election will imply repudiation of standpatism in both parties.—THE PUBLIC...
...the high tariff barons have their representatives in the senate...
...SENATOR LA FOLLETTE'S defeat would mean the absolute perpetuation of that reactionary spirit which in the last four years has supplanted largely the altruism of the preceding few years...
...La Follette has conquered an enviable position as an independent wholly exceptional in recent years...
...SENATOR LA FOLLETTE is a wholesome force in our political life and his success in winning a re-nomination in the Republican primaries of Wisconsin is welcome news...
...While he affiliates with the Republican party, Mr...
...The sensible and intelligent voters of Wisconsin could neither be deceived nor corrupted into retiring to private life the strongest, most fearless and most incorruptible character in public life today...
...You people of Wisconsin know the interests are against La Follette in this fight...
...I want to make them see that La Follette can do what no other man of us can do—that he has the experience and the ability which makes him the biggest of the progressives.—UNITED STATES SENATOR A. J. GRONNA OF NORTH DAKOTA...
...Just before I left Washington "they" sent a distinguished citizen to me...
...There is scarcely an important measure since he has been in public life that has not felt the impress for good of his constructive ability.— UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM E. BORAH OF IDAHO...
...La Follette is one of the progressive leaders of the country who has stoutly insisted on making the Republican party the agency of progressive government in this country...
...No man has been truer to the best purposes of this nation and the highest ideals in life than Senator La Follette.—UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM 8. KENYON OF IOWA...
...He was prominent in the passage of the locomotive boiler inspection law, measures for the popular election of Senators, the creation of the Children's Bureau, immigration restriction, exempting labor organizations from prosecution under the Sherman Act, investigation of labor conditions in the West Virginia coal fields, amendments prohibiting the use of time measuring device and bonus system in government plants, and to prevent the interstate shipment of goods made by child and convict labor.—FROM THE NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND INFORMATION BUREAU OF THE ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS, THE BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY TRAINMEN, THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS, AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND EN-GINEMEN...
...The nation has been waiting for the returns from Wisconsin...
...SENATOR LA FOLLETTE'S first speech in the Senate was directed toward the weakness of the railroad rate bill because it failed to provide for a block signal system and other safety appliances to protect railroad men...
...You know what that means...
...I won't give his name, but he was some one whom you would all recognize...
...LA FOLLETTE today is the most feared man in Washington...
...As champion of the Seamen's Law, Senator La Follette has completed the work of emancipation of human beings who must toil in the sweat of their brow, that was begun by Abraham Lincoln...
...The fine sense of justice which leads Senator La Follette always to vote as his conscience dictates will always cause criticism from machine politicians and bosses, whose interest it is, always, to have a man whose votes they can control.—UNITED STATES SENATOR GEORGE W. NORRIS OF NEBRASKA, * * * WISCONSIN democrats of all parties may well unite to re-elect Senator La Follette who has been triumphantly renominated in spite of tory opposition...
...Senator La Follette can hear, feel and understand the cry of pain coming from the oppressed, whether from land or sea...
...SENATOR LA FOLLETTE'S re-election is not a local question because La Follette is a national character, and far and above that he has given to the people of the United States the greatest impulse for popular and upright government...
...THERE is no man In the United States Senate who commands so much respect from every one, who has so much influence, no matter who is in the White House, or who is so feared by the reactionary interests as the Little Giant from Wisconsin...
...Senator La Follette first established a reputation as a statesman within his own state—a reputation which later found national recognition...
...There should be representatives of the people's interests...
...The Terrific and Unscrupulous Fight Against La Follette Has Been In Vain" A Few Recent Comments on Senator La Follette's Services THE nomination of Senator La Follette will be followed unquestionably by his election...
...REPUBLICAN...
...His heart is with the people and his unfailing purpose is to further their interests.— SAMUEL GOMPERS, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR...
...His influence for good will be immeasurably increased and national legislation win more than ever be shaped by hit opinions and the weight of his influence...
...He votes as he thinks best on all questions, and no party pressure can swerve him...
...when you find a man who steadfastly labors and sacrifices himself in the interest of the people who labor with their hands, it is their duty to see that he is protected from the forces of wealth who are trying to defeat him.—ANDREW FURUSETH, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SEAMEN'S UNION...
...It is a question in which the people of my own state of Nebraska are as keenly interested as are the people of Wisconsin...
...If they are against him you people ought to be for him.—UNITED STATES SENATOR MOSES E. CLAPP OF MINNESOTA...
...They could not be deceived nor corrupted and Wisconsin retains its place in the ranks of progressive commonwealths and the nation the services of the greatest constructive statesman of this day.—THE RACINE TIMES-CALL...
...The terrific and unscrupulous fight which has been made against him has been in vain...
...I tell you, the big interests are willing to go any length to beat La Follette...
Vol. 8 • September 1916 • No. 9
