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Show I QUEER POLITICAL MIXUP rn "Wiscensin tbej lmv strangi politics Bolting the ticket seems i-i be .) regular pastime. A correspondent Senator LaFolIette fcgetfter wiih the Nonpartisan leaguers, has broken away From Senator Sen-ator Lenroot, regular Republican nominee Eor re-election, and lined tip in support of the independenl candidacy pi James Thompson, the EaFollette candidate, defeated (by Lenrool in the primary. Tin- Republican "stalwarts" and a goodly number pjf other sup porters oi Lenrool have bolted John Blaine the LaFolIette candidate, candi-date, who wi'ii i In- regular Republican nomination for governor, anl air- supporting uNmk I Knlirrt IV Md'ov. the Democrat it: a nJilat . William K Morgan, a comparatively unknown man, who won the regular Kopnlilx an iioiuinali m for attorio'v cm ral hvit a well .known Mihvuukci lawyer oi German extraction; carrying even JNIil-yraukce JNIil-yraukce and otln i T utonic communitii 8. Ita bolted Blaine and is ptumping for McCoy Morgan ia one of thi leaders oi the movement in crush the j i m r power of the Nonpartisan league n Wisconsin, ijnl to identification with iliis cause manj attribute lns success in ii primary Then Blaine and three other regular Republican candidates on thr stair ticket have bolted 1 1 - regular Republican sut- platform, irhi h repudiated the priuciples oJ the Nonpartisan league aftei tin n LaFolIette candidates had been nominated with thai organization's i luiorscmcnt. Wisconsin is v strouglj Republican thai bolting is not viewed as disastrous to partj success and therefore, is accepted as sonic-1 whal in the nature of an independence wliib is o virtue In a close stair iilxc Utah, u partisan who bolted ins ticket would be ostracized j |