Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-10
ROBERT MARION LAFOLLETTE,

about La Folette's speaking Is that he
talks like man with red blood In him
He talks like sincere man. lie talks
like an honest man, and better than
anything else he knows what he Is
talking about"
KNOWS WHERE HE'S AT"
This quality of knowing where he
is att il what his friends count on TO
produce ultimate success for him. EX-
planning #, the Post says They
meaning his opponents In Wisconsin
and his critics elsewhere--haye called
him a. poseur. a crank an actor, a
fanatic and other names that are not
SO polite. LaFoletto grins when the
catalogue IS recited 20 him. They
never called me a gutter, did they?'
he asks One involuntal1ly checks OF
the various La Toilette designations
Poseur- crank actor--down through the
list. No, Is the conclusion, they never
did call him a gutter. They couldn't
AS n hanger-on, a sticker-to, La Fol-
lette Is in the same class with grim
death and the taxes.
MAN or COURAGE.
'He has courage, plenty OF 1t. He
meeting. Back In the SOS when he
was first a candidate for the Repub-
llcan nomination for governor. he came
down TO Milwaukee with enough votes
pledged. he thought, to nominate him
ON the night before the convention his
opponents, he says. bought enough OF
his delegates. to nominate the other
man. La Toilette tells about that in
cident on the stump. lie speaks about
Il without any fourishes. He de-
scrbed the room in the Phster hotel
where the delegates were taken. He
tells who took them there and how
much money, down to the kind Of bills
I'm specific sums. each delegate received,
lie Identities the bribers. He makes
no bones about the Identities OF the
bribed. II IL a sensational story. No
body has denied 1t. Nobody can. He
knows.
FAMOUS RAILROAD FIGHT.
THAT experience with the machine
which was then, and probably is now,
dominated by the raiiroads-put LII
Toilette on the track of railroad rate
reform, and caucus and convention re-
form. He went from the hall, where
he was beaten to law library, and
began TO study railroad and taxation
laws and ali other laws that give the
railroads their graft, either directly or
by evasion. He started at the first
law and went through to the last.
Then he began on railroad tariffs He
studied these complicated masses OF
figures that mean so much to the rail-
road and so little to the public unless
one OF the public wants to distribute
something He found where the re-
bates lurked. When he was through
he knew more about freight and pas
senger tariffs than any railroad man
In Wisconsin.
ATTACKED PREVAILING SYSTEM.
He utilized the information for his
own advantage. During the years he
cris -crossed the state campaigning Tor
railroad rate legislation and nomna-
tions by direct vote of the people, he
smoke constantly on the iniqultes OF
the prevailing system He knew his
people. His principal lever was that
the state was losing millions every
year IN taxation This Is con-
crete enough for any tax payer IL
penetrates He got down to bed rock
with the farmers and showed them
where they were losing money. When
he finished his speech he had the farm
ers with him. for he had the greatest
argument In the world.
WON HIS FIGHT.
.'He won his fight and passed his
laws. He was elected last time In spite
of a wide open split in his own party.
He did not care for that. When the
stalwart Republicans deserted him, he
carefully went after the Democrats and
corralled them Then he came 10 the
United states senate. He will ask the
senators some mighty direct questions
when Il comes TO debating; and he Will
know every time whether the answer is
right
ut Is curious term that word actor.
LnFollette deserves It. He is on the
stage all the time. They cannot move
the spotlight too rapidly for him. He
is there, In the calcium every second.
WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT
"I.aFollette has ambitions. lie fos-
ters them like every other human. Tie
wants 10 be president, and is working
with that end IN view. He is an earnest
refor1ner but he never fails to put In q
few licks Cor LaFolette with his re-
forming. Perhaps he would not agree
with this statement. II stands. II Is
his business to make his mission seem
as real az possible.
WONDER WHAT HE WILL DO.
"rhey are wondering what he viii do
In the senate. but really there is moth
ing to wonder about. He will jump IN
when he sees a chance and he viii see
A chance as far as any man, mix u,
the railroad rate movement, as much
rs possible. and take an axe 20 Sena-
tor Spooncr, his colleague, " the OPP
Dortunity for scientific chopping
match presents itself. He has been
made chairman OF the committee To In
festisate the Potomac river front at
Washington. II sounds imposing but 1t
is a Joke. 1t is only because there must