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Show LA FOLLETTE IS BOUND TO WIN By RAT C. WICKER. Special Dispatch to The Stamlard-Ex-amlner (Copyright, 1922 by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) MILWAUKEK Wis., July 8. Sen-nt Sen-nt .r Robert M LaFoUette will be the Republican nominee to succeed hlm-telf hlm-telf when uhe September primaries are held. This result was considered as certain toduy as unythlng In politics i an be certain. He will bp opposed In the primary nice by an unseasoned politician. Dr. W. A. Canfield. president presi-dent of Carroll college at Waukeyha Tho latter has the backing of the antl-EaFollette organization in the Btate who have assumed tiie name of the "Citizens Republican State Conference." Con-ference." e'anfield Is well known as a former president of Centre college, Kentucky, where real football players play-ers are developed. He left Carroll to take the presidency of Centre In 191b but eame back hero a year ago. If EaFolIette wins and even his most bitter enemies admit now he ls well In the lead, like his colleague frdm Minnesota, Frank B. Kellogg, ho will have a woman as his opponent In th general election. Tho Democratic state organization has whole-heartedly endorsed Mr. Ben C. Hooper of Oshkosh, preside, it of the Wisconsin league of women voters and a nationally nation-ally known suffrage leader. She will have no opposition In the Democratic primaries, and while Wisconsin is a Republican stronghold, the state has elected Democrats to the senate, the last being Paul O. Hosting, whose death resulted In the elevation of the present Junior senator, Irving L, Ler.-root, Ler.-root, from the house to his present poai. LaFollotte. 67 years old, will, if elected, stage a come-back In nation;.! affairs, his lieutenants here say. They oxpedt him to be the pivot of a group of radicals who hrjpe to be successful in the fall i,-. -tlon In t Ins . onnection, J. A. H Hopkins, cxecutlv aocretar.v of the commltteo of which backed Colonel Roosevelt In the Iowa primaries primar-ies . said today "It has t.een well said that Brook-hart Brook-hart in lown, like- Iifolletto here, is only Republican In name and stands for prngrcsslvlsrn In every public mat-II mat-II ih ouito reasonable to assume ihat candidates of this stripe can b nominated In Nebraska South Dakota and Idaho. Frnzler of North Dakota j Is suc h a candidate hould wo register regis-ter the way would tie paved for a new alignment at Wash inR ion. and a hew party In the nation With Lafollette I lead In Washington the now rnen there will fight the fight of tho people." peo-ple." Mrs Hooper will make her race on a I I platform which favors -;ubiniHtiion of the we( and dry question to tihe voters i of Wisconsin at the sprimc election of 1 '.:;; approves the soldiers' bonus, tho !St. Lawrence deep waterway project and opposes the pending tariff bill. She declared today that If elected, she would strive in every possible way In Washington to advance the interests of world peace. "It Is because of ray desire to promote- world pea. e that I havo entered 'he contest," she said today. "I feel ih.it i can do more from the inside than from the outside, and I would give mv life for this cause. The United Unit-ed Slales must assume leadership to- ird that end. i favored tho league CM nations and When Che senate fulled to ratify it I supported tho Washington Washing-ton conference, giving my time and in. ing my own expenses there to aid in promoting Its success. "I will make a personal canvass of the stat- and will tell tne voters Just how I stand on all of the public questions."' |