From the archives, 1924: Labor paper reports big crowd for La Follette campaign speaker

CHAMPAIGN - Walter Thomas Mills, a well-known speaker from California campaigning for the La Follette-Wheeler presidential ticket, drew a large crowd to Gazette square for an hourlong Tuesday address, the Twin City Review reported on its front page Oct. 17, 1924, saying he attacked the Dawes plan and its $200 million loan to Germany as a scheme that would hand international bankers control of European industry.

The labor paper said Mills, who spoke to a large gathering of union workmen and other La Follette supporters, also faulted the $800 million the United States was spending to enlarge the Army and Navy, which he said was meant to protect American capital abroad, and argued that presidents should not be able to appoint Supreme Court justices for life, but only for terms no longer than their own.

Source: Twin City Review (Champaign-Urbana), Oct. 17, 1924, page 1, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn96071000/1924-10-17/ed-1/?sp=1