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Show HI LAMPOONING LA FOLLETTE. H 1 - "TjaFollettc's boast is a slander on the West," says the Salt H H LflC IIcrald Theu iL Kocs " t0 (luote i3ie "boast," as it terms III LaFol.lette's 8tement of fact, that the "West will support the Pro- H ' "gressives and now offers him hope in his campaign to defeat the H "Reactionaries" for the presidency. The'llcrald says: B "The entire west is prospering, growing, bursting each suit H . of clothes because it expands so fast that one is outgrown before HL ( - another can be made, but the west is neither Populistic nor infected H I with the virus of LaFolletteism. B V m "Senator LaFollctte is threatened with a grave danger against H i which he should be warned; if he he the sole guardian of the sacred ( honor of insurgency, the day approaches when it will be a synonym ' for idiocy. The sense of humor of the American people is fully de- j vclopcd; many a building boom has been killed by laughter." That would bo very funny and might provoke' a laugh, if it vcrc not so far-fetched. Western states have gone Progressive, others are going nnd they all ar.c for LuFollcttc. The man from Wisconsin was sneered at. lampooned and lied about by papers owing allegiance to the same forces back of the Salt Lako paper, and the prediction was made, with the regularity of a regular advertisement, ad-vertisement, that he would be defeated by popular vote. When the election was held, LaFollette carried the state by 140,000 votes, the largest majority ever given a senator or ever recorded for any political candidate in "Wisconsin. Vc advise the editor of the llerald not to attempt to ridicule ridi-cule LaFollettc or to make light of him by loud guffaws, for the final laugh will be on the servant of "the interests." |