Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-09-03 | Page 4 | Peril of a Senator

PERIL OF A SENATOR Senator term of office as asT T States senator from Wisconsin Wl con ln will vill expire in March 1111 Jill He HO H is In for tor forthe forthe the short term aid nd there are signs on the Wisconsin sky rry which make his reelection re reelection election extremely doubtful It has become the fixed habit of ot Wis cousin i people to say lay 1 that LaFollette hi Is honest No one t tere ere is permitted permuted to doubt that without making an apology with his face toward Madison Madl But even an honest ho at man may overplay his single virtue For many yean years he has dominated the tIle state sate te and ad people there are Just juat beginning to look about them and wonder wander what hat good his hii raise noise nol e has bas done lone They are coming close tte to t the that after all it has simply pI meant a l change of They backed LaFollette because e he was against the politicians and they find him a bigger billger politician than any they have retired with all the worst of ot his predecessors weapons and none of their virtues virtue Also they are beginning to see Bee that La LaFollette LaFollette LaFollette Follette is almost humanely human y h in his activities after alt all Instead of being be being being ing ready to die for the people he Is IB extremely willing milling to live for himself elf I It would be a good thing for Wiscon Wisconsin sin to retire LaFollette Just ju t as it was wax wasa a good thing for tor Kansas Kanas to retire the whiskered Peffer and the Bookless Simpson Neither of the three did any good for the th state that sent and paid him All of them were prophets of dire evil and stood st ol as the the exponents of pro protest protest protest test agai t a d r bad condition which the rest of the v w rid never would have gus us of their respective states stat if jf a d t United States State senator or r a congressman t PO sr Or Declared it WI c r s a n is a great state DJ aid pa I ble We of being greater It will never be helped along that desirable road by La LaFollette LaFollette LaFollette Follette He has had his chance chan He Helass has lass overthrown lots Iota of good men and replaced them with others admittedly not oot so good And Ai d he has roared alt all up and down the country about a work which he himSelf hi f at fill all propose j to do Wherefore re the people there are plan pJ planning n nine ning for the election of a legislature which will lose l Robert Marlon and keep him lost t