The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-01-11
Machine 10 Alarmed.

Senator Moses K. Clapp was IN MIL
nesota during the holidays and at
tempted to stir up new movement
which would result In the Instruction
OF the Minnesota delegates for Pres
ident Roosevelt. This move Is inter
nreted on the part Of the politicians
in Minnesota as being a frank admls-
sion that Mr.. Roosevelt is the only
man who can get the delegation away
from La Toilette.
In a column OF political gossip about
the presidential campaign In that
state. the Minneapolis Journal says
| The la Toilette organization is get
! ting busy, and the preliminary moves
are being maze 1 ooWarq man senator r.
| ~ Sundberg, OF Kennedy. liz reported
10 be already slated for one OF the del
The Ia Toilette people are the only
| ones who are doing any work, ana In
| Hennepin county they have punt UP d
strong organization Thsy nave mead
quarters In the Security Bank outid'ng,
/ where clerks and stenographers are
| sending out letters, buttons, etc. Ihey
| have several hundred names on the
"A. Peterson is at the head OF the work.
with Arthur l. Jones as his lieutenant
La Follette's Position In Senate.
That the newspaper attitude toward
La Toilette In the Twin Cities mas
changed since the senator's campaign
was first launched. Is evidenced In az
editorial in the Minneapolis Journal
on La Follette's position In the SEN
ate" which follows:
| when Robert NJ La Toilette Joined
the senate. IL was with the same reser-
| yation that Jefr Davis made as TO eat
| ing from the hand OF Mammon. Meth
| er would ever submit 10 TAKING MS
meals from such a table.
| As far as La Toilette Is concerned,
! he had an intelligent conception or
what he meant TO 90 In the senate fhe
| senator a week, he began working them
| out Here was one OF the foremost
constructive politicians the west has
| produced in a dozen years. sent TO the
| senate to do for a larger constituency
! the same kind OF work he has been
| doing for the people OF Wisconsin. For
! Wisconsin, La Toilette has secured a
primary election law. a railroad valua-
! ton law, a railway commission lave lie
had put on the statute book many cx-
cellent provisions for safesuardlng the
| plain people and these provisions, when
submitted 10 the courts. were Endorsed
as constitutional.
was IL any wonder that Ia Toilette
/ started in TO do the same things In
| Washington? Not at all. Was II any
wonder that the senate looked coidly
upon him? Scarcely. when one con-
| siderB that ne mas come 10. SENATE
| dominated by Aldrich. La Toilette was
hazed. When he arose to speak the
! senator's walked out La Toilette de-
termined that ~ he could not speak TO
the senator's he would spear about
| them SO. IN the recess. he went on to
| the ,Chautauaua platform and read the
records OF certain senators and COM
mentcdN thereon.S II made senatorial
hair. whore there was any curl and
senatorial Temperature approach the
boiling point when the present sess
sion opened. the senate was simply
| sizxllng with la Toilette sentiment.
AT this juncture he applied for SOMA
1 better committeeman the steering
board gave him the Craftsmanship OF
the committee to investigate the Poto-
mac water front I'm Washington This
1 committee has never had a meeting.
! The senators have never seen the wa
ter front. They have never acknowl-
edged any Indebtedness to the Poto-
mac. and in fact they consider that. IL
] anything the senatorial front is of
much greater Importance than that OF
the Pbtomac-- ola Follette's assignment
10 this committee means that the steer
Ing oomfnittec has read his Chautauqua
| speeches and has made notes on it's
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