Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-09
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WATCH La TOILETTE
an IS ONE OF THE CREATIONS OF.
LAST TUESDAY.
HIS OVERWHELMING VICTORY.
sinse-Mnkers writing Down His
Name as a Running Mate for
acknowledgements a Candidate
Against the President.
SIC IS ONE OF THE CREATIONS or
LAST TUESDAY.
HIS OVERWHELMING VICTORY.
sinse-Mnkers writing Down M.
Name as a Running Mate for
Against the President.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. November s.
(speoial1-NeSt to New York the election
IN no State was watched with kcener IN.
teTest than the contest in Wisconsin
BY an overwhelming victory on a Mat.
form Of election reforms and equal taxa.
lion, not only against the Democracy. but
B powerful faction in his own party. Gov
crnor La Toilette becomes a national
character, and the slate makers at the
political centre of the county are already
writing down his name and trying if 1t
win not lit in somewhere on the next
national Republican ticket. His long
light FOR q cause, IN the face of repeated
defeats; his ultimate triumph. two wears
ago. now his reelection, after fiinginy an
unsatisfactory bill back in the teeth of a
gecaicltrant Legislature are events that
mark The career Of no ordinary man. He
IS remembered here as a member of the
committee on ways and means which
framed the Mckinley tariff bill. and upon
the floor Of the House he was one of the
most eloquent and ardent lieute11ants
OF the protection leader
II IS accepted here without question
that Senator Spooner will be a candidate
t'r9Sl-
dent against President Roosevelt. if he
thinks there is any chance for him. II Is
understood that the great corporations
Of the country are not satisfied with Prcsi-
dent Roosevelt. They do not know what
he Will do next This influence would feel
more at home with Spooner. who is con-
sidered "a safe man. from the corpora
ton point Of view. This line of reflection
nHd what happened Tuesday. naturally
suggest LaFollete as the running mate
Of RcoseveIt's. Both are young men. each
in his way hero Of the rising generation
Of new Republicans, What combination
could be better, the Republican gossips
say that to take the youngster who has
shown himself the boldest fighter in the
mississippi Valley, and hitch him up
alongside Of the man Of San Juan Hill?
1t is the Presidential bee in Spooner's
bonnet. according to belief here, that
caused him to take the remarkable atti-
tude of campaigning for his party and
still refusing to declare his position as to
the party platform. He had no sympa-
thy among experienced politicians here in
assuming the lofty air Of superiority
1bove the declaration OF the party which
he expected would re-elect him to the |
Jnjted States Senate. II is assumed that |
lie is & candidate for reelection. although |
lie has not said else. why did he enter |
the campaign? Certainly not to elect La |
Toilette Governor. 1t was clearly to keep |
his State in the Republican column, and |
TO succeed himself. 1t is believed here |
that he will be reelected, but it is also |
thought that he cannot succeed unless he |
makes his peace with the Governor, and
rallies his forces in the Legislature to |
the support of the party measures, name
II a legalized primary and abolition OF
The four corners caucus and equal taxa
ton for the corporations and the indi- /
yidual citizen. according to valuation of
property.
The veteran politicians in Washington
say: Keep a sharp lookout for Governor
La Toilette. He is one of the creations
IF last Tuesday"