The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-08
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By SAVOYARD.
 ff sn the Ipoiftical world the expected
 ahouId bappen and 1t shonld become as
 disreputable Ito be an octopus chaser and
 trusf nust er Is 1t now is to be corporation
 lawyer this dnan will be Q statesman out of a tob. He { the Bryan of the Republican party and 4 radical of the radicals. He was
 d s;resornf governor, and did not fall
 downsfairs, misfortune that frequently
 overtakes feformers in office As an octo-
 pus chaser in the Senate he separated from
 the repuhican pack. and even got ahead of
 the Demofratic pack. He is q candidate for
 President. and will be an also ran' in the
 Repuhiicsn national convention of 1908 Ex-
 cept as U IS to 1 and the degree of revision,
 that shoaid be injected into the tariff. La
 Toilette land Bryan are in perfect accord.
 and lave not one particle of doubt that
 each of these two imminent statesmen is
 the secInd choice of the other for the office
 of President of the United States.
 wheS I first saw La Toilette he was
 slendes man of youthful appearance, with
 more foice in proportion to avoirdupcts than
 any other man ever saw. He was then
 a member of the Forty-ninth Congress. thif-
 ty yArs old. and his speciality was the
 tariff question that he treated with lungs
 was President. There was an enormous
 surplus in the Treasury that was sweiied
 dailj by the customs receipts and the eel-
 lectbns of internal taxes. William R. Mor- risoh was trying to curtail the revenues ny redacing taxes. but Randall led revolt In tha Democratic camp and defeated the pro
 jed Pig Iron Kelley was the titufar leaoer of the Republicans. but Reed ana Mehiniey were the real commanders. seconded by Burrows and Cannon. La Toilette was ian cy orator on the Republican side almost as frenzied in his eloquence as Dave Tender sen, who then had the bloody shirt in ms keeping. I shall never forget the vehement and patriotic eloquence of the Hon. Tender son---a native of Scotiand--when. to rebuke Southern treason. he exclaimed in an costa sy of hyperbole: From highland pass to rowland moor. treason never found lodg- ment in Scottish breast" The rebel brfga- diers yelled "whoopee'' In derision. and the "trooly loil" applauded in rapture. La Fol iette was rather abridged Henderson in those days.
 As I said, Randall destroyed the Morrison bill Of the Forty-seventh Congress and Pittsburg sent out to Illinois and bought Morrison's seat in the Fiftieth Congress for old Jehu Baker. who became a silver Re publican ten years later and voted for Bry- an; but the Fiftieth Congress was also Democratic, and Carlisle its Speaker. Tn December, 1887. President Cleveland sent his famous message to Congress that made the tariff absolutely paramount It was followed by the Mills bill. which Randall was unable to defeat in the House. The debate on that measure was able and bril- liant La Toilette was then an advocate of tariff for protection with incidental revenue a policy quite as dishonest as it is unconsti- Sutionai. We have 1t now in all it's iniqut- ty in the Dingley law, under winch the peo- pie pay the manufacturers sio of protection for every dollar they pay into the Treasury for revenue. Here is this octopus that does more mischief in twenty-four hours than the railroads do in twenty-four days
 The Presidential campaign of 1888 was fought on the tariff. Mir. Cleveland would have been reelected if a Mir. Wanamaker had not contributed vast sums of money from his wealth and copious streams Of prayer from his religion to promote the Re- publican cause. Mr. Matt Quay took charge ~e AN- ~saA Ant war in charge of Dave Martin. It was all over but the shouting as soon as Martin crossed the bridge. Had Grover Cleveland been re-elected In isss the tariff would nave nave est basis and the IS to frenzy would have been avoided.
 But Harrison was elected The Repubii- cans set about a reduction of the surplus, ana did it on Republican lines-that Is, they increased tariff duties to discourage and bestow additional graft on the tariff octopus. By this time Ia at the council board of the Ways ana Means Committee, where the Mckinley tariff of lss0--and of odious memory--was hatch ed. He took a prominent part in the de- bate and was quite an astonished man when the country got a whack at his work in November. 1890. and gave the Democrats the greatest and completest victory any party ever achieved in the United States. one of the consequences of that victory was solid Democratic delegation in the Fifty second Congress from Wisconsin. La Toilette himself fell in the ranks of the monopoly, of greed, and of graft, for of these is pro- lective tariff composed.
 And now La Toilette turned octopus chas- or and has a certificate of pure patriotism ana able craftsmanship from Lincoln Stef- eens Ray Stannard Baker. and that set This Mir Baker Is now down South investi- gating the race problem. He sees every l fhinK and observes nothing. He will go back home more hopelessly, If not quite so aenssly Ignorant of the subject than when he .started. It seems that old man Phiietus Sawyer was boss of wisconsin. He was | sawmiil man. very rich and dealt in poli- | tics as we'll as pine logs. He had taken l a fancy to La Toilette and aided to further l the young mans political fortunes. IL came | about however. that La Toilette discovered 1 that old Sawyer was not the right sort of man and there was a big row, have for l gotten whether the quarrel came before or | after La Toilette got to be governor. Be | that as 1t may, the young reformer downed | the old boss and became every man himself 1 Report has 1t that La Toilette did some In | 1urfous things to the corporations. that he | wrought nightly and smote the Philistines l hin and thigh Railroads were disciplined 1 ana grafters banshed. and all that.
 From 1890 till 1894 wisconsin was Demo | nratic Both Senators-Vflas and Mitchell | were of that party, and there is not the | slightest doubt that Wisconsin would have | continued Democratic to this day if the party had remained Cleveland