National Affairs: Campaign Notes

¶ "Uncle Charlie" Patton, 85, of Marion, Ohio, minus a piece of ear since the Civil War, and White House gardener since Warren G. Harding first took up his residence at the Executive Mansion, resigned his job. The LaFollette publicity department fairly bellowed the news: "Uncle Charlie is going back to Marion to vote for LaFollette."

¶ Senator LaFollette has been accused of proposing to do many terriblethings to the Constitution; already he has brought about a condition in his home state which its Constitution never foresaw.

The Constitution of Wisconsin provides that, in the...

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