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Show GOVERNOR OSBORN'S STATEMENT. On Tuesday the governor of Michigan had prepared an introductory intro-ductory speech which he was to deliver on the occasion of La Follctto's appearance before a Lansing audience. 'l'lfc speech was filled with stinging personalities and was couched in language insulting. in-sulting. As a greeting and an introduction, it was a coarse effort and should have been suppressed. When La Follctte failed to reach Lansing, owing to missing his train, Governor Osborn, not to be denied the opportunity to slur his prospective, guest, hod the speech sent out as a statement of Avbat he would have said. The governor of Michigan must be peculiarly constituted, as he has displayed an over-weening desire to get before the country in the hole of Jack, the Giant Killer. The Michigan manpnist have been set aside by the enemies of the Wisconsin senator, as the one to perform the odious task of personally insulting La Follettc in an effort to have the sennior diverted from his high purposo of spreading spread-ing the gospel of better government. It would hove pleased tho opponents of the Progressive movement to have had La Follettc engage en-gage in on acrimonious coutVoversy with tho governor of Michigan, but the indications are this pleasure is to be denied them, as the senator so far has ignored the attack. ,T While men of the stripe of Osborn are offering insults, greater men of better training, arc sounding the praises of La Fol-lorte. Fol-lorte. Senator Bourne of Oregon, answering the charge of radicalism radical-ism as lodged against 'La Follctte by Osborn, says: "Why have I for months been so insistently for Senator La Follettc for President? Because he has many of the qualifications which I believe are absolutely necessary for a man to possess in order to properly fill the high office of the nation's chief public servant. He believes in popular, not delegated government; realizes that general welfare, not selfish interest, must be the motive power of all successful and permanent government. He is honest, courageous, courage-ous, able, dynamic, with twenty-five years' experience in legislative and executive public life. Though radical in manner he is extremely conservative in thought and action, with high ideals, broad ideas and strong convictions. General welfare is his goal and selfish interest his abomination. "I urge the big business interests of the country to study the laws of Wisconsin enacted since he was first governor of that state; hold him as the dynamic personality of thaj electorate; responsible re-sponsible for all thoso laws. If investigation shows them to be protective pro-tective of personal liberty and property rights, then support him for president. If destructive of personal liberty or property rights, bitterly oppose his candidacy. Such an investigation will show Wisconsin Wis-consin laws to be constructive, not destructive; progressive, not reactionary; re-actionary; intelligently conservative, not blindl' radical, "Senator La Follctte is a statesman, not a politician; a deep thinker, not a demagogue. His candidacy presents an opportunity to nominate and elect a President on his record and not on another man's endorsement or promise to follow in another's footsteps, no can, and, in my opinion, will "be nominated, and if nominated, will unquestionably be elected. |