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Show ; Will La Foiiette Head a New Party? I J- ! i ! i Senator Robert M. l.al'ollette of Wisconsin won his campaign for nomination nom-ination as senator by a landslide victory. vic-tory. The politicians are now saying that his alliance with radicals is taken to mean that he will seek the presidential nomination of a proposed , new national party. Tliey say hat I.aFoiiette's attack on Harding and Republican policies and his acceptance accept-ance of the Socialist indorsement of" his own candidacy are straws indicating indicat-ing lie would like to run for president In 1024. Anyway, LaFollette defended his record in tiie senate, laying particular stress on his stand on questions relating relat-ing to the World war. He lias denounced de-nounced the four-power treaty and called the Fordney-McCumber tariff measure the "greatest robber tariff ever attempted." In reviewing the industrial in-dustrial situation, lie bitterly al tacked the Kseh-Cummlns law and the pro posed snip subsidy. William A. Ganfield. who sought to displace Senator LaFollette, La-Follette, declared during Ids campaign "that of all the radical things LaFol-lelte LaFol-lelte has proposed, the one most subversive to the government of the United Slates is his proposal to take away from the Supreme court the final decision as to the constitutionality of laws." He criticized the war record of Wisconsin's Wiscon-sin's senior senator, and warned against what he termed "the danger of experl-n.tntH experl-n.tntH of untried radical theories." "Bossism run mad" Is the way he pictured the campaign methods of Senator LaFollette. |