Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-05
SPOONER WAS REGULAR
LA TOILETTE BoLTED AT EVERY
TURN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis. November 4.-The
campaign which closed in Wisconsin tonight
has been a play Of Senator Spooner vs. SEN
ator La Toilette from beginning to end. No
more divergent arguments were ever pre-
scented in the same campaign by two men
of the same party than have marked the
speeches Of the two senators.
Regardless of how man may stand on
the issues represented by these two sena-
tors there is no avoiding the conclusion that
the weeks trip Of Senator Spooner has
been a veritable triumphal march, while
Senator La Toilette has done himself no
good and probably has hurt his prestige
in Wisconsin. In short, Senator Spooner
has been supporting the ticket. state. con-
gressional and local, regardless Of how the
various candidates might have opposed him
in the past Senator La Toilette all but
ignored the work done by Roosevelt, openly
bolted half Of the republican ticket, and
damned by faint praise all the remainder.
except in such instances as he might have a
personal friend or supporter for whom he
would speak. The Spooner campaign was
for the party and the republican ticket. The
La Toilette campaign was for La Toilette.
The manner in which Senator La Toilette
has bolted the ticket has not strengthened
him in the state Here is the parallel of the
two campaigns Of the closing week.
Stood for the Party.
Monday La Toilette spoke at Oconomo-
woo devotng the evening to his own ideas
OF the trusts, barely mentioning the candi-
date for governor, who had defeated La
Follette's candidate at the primaries, not
naming other candidates except the one for
the state senatorship, who is against
Srooner's reelection. Spooner that night
addressed an enormous crowd at Stevens
Point, declaring he was for the ticket from
start to finish. urging the Roosevelt poll
cies and pledging his support to the Pres-
dents reform ideas.
Wednesday La Toilette, at Lake Geneva.
devoted his address to denunciation of the
Spooner follower. who is a candidate for
the state senate. and urged the election OF
the democrat
Thursday La Toilette. in Milwaukee, ad-
yocated the election of the La Toilette can
didate for district attorney, who had bolted
the candidate chosen in preference to HIM
self at the primaries under the law passed
by La Toilette.
The same night, at Oshkosh, Spooner ad-
vocated the election of the state senatorial
candidate, who was pledged to down
Spooner four years hence, and Spooner re-
fused to indorse the candidacy of the
Spooner follower, who was running indie
pendently for the same office. Stand by
the ticket of the primary was Spooners
charge, though IT might mean MS own de-
feat.
The congressional situation appears to in
sure the republicans nine of the eleven
representatives c. III. Weisse, democrat,
from the sixth being sure Of election. ]. w.
Babcock, in the third, is having a close fight
against the allied democrats and La Fol-
lette followers several close friends and
spokesman of La Toilette having gone into
the district to work for the democratic
candidate. There seems to be little doubt
that Gov. Davidson. republican. viii be re-
elected.