Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-18

La Toilette In Wisconsin. Ten years ago Wisconsin was as
 shackled as are today most of tn
 states of the Union. The interest
 controlled the state government com. pletely. They were powerfully in trenched. None but a man of iron could, none but man of heroic pur pose would, have dared to contemplate the contest against such odds. But Providence had furnished us the man
 a man who saw clearly ana was not afraid.
 You know something of the furious
 warfare which has gone forward ir
 Wisconsin during those years. It was
 < holy war in the peoples cause Yea,
 after year. riding the saddle by nigh
 and by day, his sword was nevei
 sheathed. When the way was dark
 he kept the fires lighted upon the hills
 when the people wearied, his strong
 arm was about them.
 His Work an Expanding Miracle.
 From the beginning his life and his
 work have been an expanding miracle
 marked all the way by the shining towers of truth. Again and again, con, fronted with the alternative of com
 promise or temporary defeat, he ac- cepted temporary defeat leading to ul- innate triumph, believing with Elmer son that there Is no peace save in the triumph of principles.
 To those who call him radical our reply is that the radicals today are the blind, without perspective. who will not see that the demands of conditions have outsrripped the relief of legisla- ton and who obstruct the passage of such necessary relief. Our further an- swer is that no ganda was ever announced in his career which has not been justified by the course of events, and today in Wisconsin no man asks for the repeal of a letter of the laws written upon the books through his labor and his genius.
 Compromise Spells Death.
 If we are to stay the fatal progress of perverse conditions we cannot fal- ter, we cannot compromise, we can not turn back. This is a war-a war in which modern industrialism is on trial and in which the institution of private property is being weighed in the balance. In this contest there is no place for the genial and gentle art of men of peace, for compromise to- day spells death. In this war the peo- pie will have their own leader. They will have no raw recruit. but yeter- an, bronzed and battered in the con- flict.
 We offer him here. I have seen him In the fray, with jaw set. his eye blaz- Ing, his whole figure instinct with in- domitable energy for the justice of his of battle. unparalleled in the history of American politics. fight ing the cause of the common people. his sword ringing upon the armor of his enemy. neither asking nor giving quarter. Call him ambitious. call him hypocrite, call him demagogue, all ia. niliar words in the vernacular of his enemies: but, call him what you will, he will live in memory as the most splendid type of fighting citizen which this generation has given to the re. public.
 Justly RooseveIt's Successor.
 I give you the names of our president md the man who justly should be his successor, the names of Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M. La Toilette. In his first message to congress, to he amazement of the special interests If the country. Roosevelt declared war n the same cause which we had fought, md from the moment the battle cry fl the Republican party in the nation ounded in harmony with the familiar 'attle cry which for years had thrilled he Badger State this great issue leap. | d from our commonwealth to compass | he entire union of states.
 Commissioned to the United States | enate. the great work has been carried Senator La Toilette has hdAhlitifi HNt EiCdt IHedSuTeS-UTsI, bill designed to conserve the national esources: second. a bill which justly rotects the injured employees. wound d or maimed in dangerous occupation: hird, bill to determine the real value f the railroads of the country. to the nd that the government shall he able dequately to protect the public from iilroad extOrtion in matters of rates nd service: fourth. protest against a Tstem of currency issue which reposes l the judgment of a political appointee, le comptroller of the currency. the asis of value upon which American ollars are issued and guaranteed by le government: fifth. he has chaIleng- leadership in the United States anate which we believe menaces the est interests of the whole country. either Rampant Radical Nor Coward
 y Conservative. The successor of Theodore Roosevelt lould be man who is neither a ram- ant radical nor a cOWardly conserva- ve. but a man strong to understand. 'arless 10 execute and just to conserve le honest rights Of all.
 He should is a man who will be the IcceSSor of Theodore Roosevelt. nei- fer his heir nor his crown prince. If lere he danger of Mexicanizing the