The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-22
LA TOILETTE is In THE RACE
HIS PRESIDENTIAL NOON BEGINS
BUSINESS TODAY.
Has Equipped Himself for the High Honor
by Killing n Bear and q BObcat In
Colorado Forests Will Get Out Of the
Race for One Mar Only, Roosevelt.

0OIOTb0O FOTeStt VIII 1et VUt Oh INC
Race for One Mar Only, Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The friends Of
Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette Of Wisconsin
insist that Col, Henry Watterson has not
properly identified the hairs protrudina
from the door Of the stable wherein is Be.
curely stalled the Presidential dark horse
The Badger folk say the peeping hairs dc
not suggest a mustache with a 'favorite
SON attached, but are the integral parts OF
a mustacheless candidate, with a pompa-
lou that is at all times cooked and primed
for the plain people.
The La Toilette boom begins business
from to-day. The fiery little Senator has
Just emerged from the Colorado forests,
where he has been equipping himself for
Presidential honors by hunting bear. He
killed a bear and a bobcat and is now going
10 resume the lecture platform. He opens
! his summer and fall Chautauqua circuit at
Mitchell, S. D.. He could talk on Macbeth
il he cared TO do so. but he will not. He
tried that on a Chautauqua at Otta wa, Kan,
last year and he dropped il beoau the
people "out West are more interested in
hearing about Hartman than about Mac
beth, who, after all, is in vogue only with
commencement ~mollycoddles.
Senator La Toilette will discuss the rail-
road question, therefore. and defend his
amendments offered to the rate bill and
incidentally grill the Senators who voted
TO table them. He has engagements that
will keep him occupied until Congress
meets. His field will be principally in the
Far West and the middle West. The season
will yield him about $25, 900.
Meanwhile he will cultivate his boom.
He is practically assured Of the delegation
from his own State. His friends who are
at work in Washington promoting senti-
ment declare that he has a following in
Minnesota. Iowa. Kansas, the Dakotas
which they claim even the nucleus Of an
organization ia in New Jersey, where the
political junta that brought about the
defeat OF John F. Dryden is claimed by La
FoIlette's friends to be very partial to La
Hampshire has declared for the Wisconsin
Senator as the logical candidate, but MIR.
Chambers ability to deliver a delegation
is admitted to be ~problematical.
Senator La Toilette is in the fight to a
finish. He will be the Republican counter
irritant for William r. Hearst and will
not be Jared by the prospect Of a defeat.
His friends intimate that he will get out
OF the race Tor one man only-Theodore
Roosevelt. He intends to be the leader OF
the new political thought. and hopes. as
does Hearst. to ride into the White House
on the crest Of a wave OF popular discomfort
incident to hard times that he believes
are sure to come
The La Toilette candidacy will be one Of
the distinct features OF the next Republican
national convention. 1t seems to be well
supplied with cash since the election of
Isaac Stephenson as the successor of John
c. Spooner in the United States Senate.
Mr.. La Toilette himself is no mean spender.
Il is a we'll known fact that all the revenues
from his official. literary and C~hautauqua
work are promptly poured into the hopper
to feed the propaganda.
The La Toilette followers profess ale
glance to the President. but they are COM
planning bitterly OF his treatment OF the
La Toilette boom. 1t was reported last
winter that the President saw much In
la Follette's ideas TO admire. He has
been quoted az having said; Sometimes
/ think La Toilette comes more nearly repre-
senting my policies than any other Senator
La Follette's friends say that 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 to Senate
La Follette's resolution directing. these
Withdrawals as one OF the first official acts
in evolving the policy.
Senator La Toilette lays original claim
to the plan for taking the actual physical
valuation Of railroad properties, which the
President first exploited and then modified
in his indianapolis speech. The La Fol-
lette followers lay against the President the
same charge that the Bryan clan does OF
taking the political wearing apparel Of theft
favorite son and rejecting the wearer
The friends OF Senator La Toilette in Wash
ington assert that wherever he has gone in
the Weat he has found the Presidents
friends cutting the supports from under
him. For this reason he is determined not
dents imprint except the President him
self, and one Of the Senator's friends said
to-day that II President Roosevelt con-
sented 20 run again the issue precipitated
upon the country would not involve any
economic question, but would be merely
as 10 the propriety Of a third term. and on
that, they assert. the President would be
at a decided disadvantage.