The Washington herald., 1907-06-22
BOOM LA TOILETTE
of Wisconsin Sena-
tor at Work in West.
YIELD ONLY FOR ROOSEVELT
Hope To Garry own state and Claim
Following i'm Several States-Sen-
atOr Back from Colorado Hunt
with Bear and Bob Cat 10 His
Credit-Resumes Lecture Platform.

The friends Of Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette, of Wisconsin insist that Col
Henry Watterson has not properly iden-
titled the hairs protTuding from the door
Of the stable wherein is securely stalled
the Presidential dark horse.
The Badger folk say the peeping hairs
do not suggest a nustaChe with n favor
ite' son" attached, but are the integral
parts of a mustacheless candidate with
pompadour that is at all times cooked and
primed for the plain people
The La Toilette boom begins business az
once The fiery little Senator has just
emerged from the Colorado forests, where
he has been equipping himself for Presi-
dental honors by hunting bear He killed
a bear and a bob cat, and is now going
TO resume the lecture platform. He opens
his summer and fall Chautauqua circuit al
Mitchell. 6. Oak. lie could talk on Mac
beth if ne cared 10 do so. but he will not
He tried that on a ChautauQua at ottawa.
Kans., last year, and he dropped II be
cause the people "out West are more in
terested in hearing about Hartman than
about Macbeth, who. after all. is in vogue
only with commencement moIIycoddles.
Lectures Net Him s25y9OO,
Senator La Toilette will discuss the rail-
road rate question. therefore. and defend
/ his amendments offered 70 the rate bill,
and incidentally grill the Senators who
voted to table them He has engage
ments that will keep him occupied until
Congress meets. His field viii be prin-
/ cipally in the far West and Middle West.
| The season will yield about S25,0l0
Meanwhile he will cultivate his boom.
He Is practically assured Of the delega-
/ tlon from his own State. His friends
/ who are al work IN Washington pro
noting sentiment declare that he has a
/ following IN Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas,
/ the Dakotas. and Oregon. The only East
/ ern State in which they claim even the
nucleus Of an organization is in New
/ Jersey, where the political juuta that
/ brought about the defeat Of John F. Dry
/ den Is claimed by la Folettes friends %
/ be very partial 70 La Toilette. William E.
/ Chandler, OF New Hampshire. has de
clared for the Wisconsin Senator as the
/ loslcaI candidate, but Mr. Chambers abil-
/ ity 20 deliver q delegation is admitted 20
/ be probematical.
Hopes 30 Win on Radical Wave.
/ Senator La Toilette Is in .hc fight 10 q
finish. He will be the Republican coun-
/ ter-irritlut for William r. Hearst. and
will not be Jared by the prospects Of a
! defeat His friends intimate that he will
get out Of the race for one man only
/ Theodore Roosevelt. He intends 20 be the
/ leaoer OF the new political thought. and
hopes. as does Hearst, 20 ride into the
White House on the crest Of a wave Of
popular discomfort incident TO hard times
. that he believes are sure 20 come
The La Toilette candidacy will be one
of the distinct features Of the next Re-
publican convention. II seems 20 be well
supplied with cash since the election Of
Isaac Stephenson as the successor OF John
/ G. Spooner IN the United States Senate.
/ Mr La Toilette himself IS no mean
/ spender 1t is a well-known fact that all
the revenues from his official literary and
+ ChautauQua work are promptly poured
into the hopper 20 feed the propaganda.
The La Toilette followers profess al
. legiance 10 the President, but they are
/ complaining bitterly OF the treatment Of
the La Toilette boom. Il was reported
last winter that the President saw much
in La F0llette's ideas 20 admire He
has been quoted as having said:
Sometimes I think La Toilette comes
more nearly representing my policies
than any other Senator
Credit Claimed by Ia Toilette.
la FOllette's friends claim he gave the
President his first suggestion for con-
serving the fuel supply Of the country by
Withdrawing from entry all mineral lands
in the public domain. They point 10 Sen
ator La Follette's resolution directing
these Withdrawals as one of the first Of
fetal acts In evolving the policy. The
Wisconsin Senator lays original claim 10
tie plan for taking the actual physical
valuation Of railroad properties, which
the President first exploited and then
modified in his Indianapolis speech. The
La Toilette followers lay against the
President the same charge that the Bryan
I, clan does, of taking the political wearing
|, apparel of their favorite son and reject
ing the wearer.
\ The friends Of Senator La Toilette in
Washington, assert that wherever he has
gone in the West, he has found the Pres
idents friends cutting the supports from
b under him. For this reason he IS de
termined not TO Yield TO any candidate
bearing the Presidents imprint, except
; the President himself. and one Of Tho
Senator's friends said to-day that II
President Roosevelt consented to run
? again the issue precipitated upon the
country would not involve any economic
question, but would be merely as to the
, propriety Of a third term and upon
that they assert that the President would
be at a decided disadvantage