The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-17
The Battle viii be a Royal
One in Wisconsin Next
Year
Ia F0llETTES SUPPORTERS
SAY he CAN CARRY the STATE
The Senior Senator Has Been Having
Trouble to Elect His Candidates But
Followers Say He Can Lift the Hoo.
doc Personally.

WdSHluStOn, aug. Il.-Inat q great
effort is to be made in Wisconsin to
prevent the return OF Senator Robert
M. La Toilette to the senate is the
word that has reached Washington
from the Badger state in the last day
or two. 1t appears that the move
ment began to take definite shape
with the return home of Senator Isaac
Stephenson.
On the way from Washington to his
home In Marinette "Uncle Ike" laid
over in Milwaukee and held confer
ences with some of the anti-La Fol-
lette politicians. and plans for the de-
feat OF La Toilette were laid. His
term will expire a year from next
March, and the senatorial primaries
will be held about year hence.
Senator Stephenson, though once
the friend of Senator La Toilette, is
now thoroughly against him and ca
ger to encompass his defeat He is
looked on as the head of the stalwart
or anti-La Toilette movement The
man on whom Senator Stephenson and
his friends, are reputed to have settled
to run for the senate against La Fol-
lette is Walter Alexander, of Wau-
sau. He is millionaire lumberman,
like "Uncle Ike.
State Chairman Named.
Another man who is looked on as
having senatorial aspirations and one
whom some politicians believe the Ste
phenson organization will take up
with is p. A. Edmonds, of Appleton,
who is now Republican state chair
man. Edmonds was in Washington
recently comforting with President
Taft about a certain appointment. The
.governorship will be more or less in
volved with the senatorship. Cover
nor, James o. Davidson would like a
fourth term, but probably" will not he
allowed it. Senator Stephenson and
his friends are expected to back State
Senator George E. Hudnall for the
governorship.
II the fight on La Toilette comes
off according to schedule 1t will be a
spectacular struggle of national
character. In the years he has been
in public life Little Bob" has ac-
quired large, active and fiourishing
crop of enemies who are looking for
chance to do him up politically. In
former times Senator Stephenson is
alleged to have given of his substance
freely to help elect La Toilette, but
there is little question now he would
give with more librality to beat him.
Senator La Follettos friends say,
moreover, that various big interests
over the country that La Toilette has
antagonfzed, either as governor Of
Wisconsin or as senator, will pour
money into Wisconsin to defeat him.
Popular ut Home.
The supporters OF the fiery insur-
gent senator say. Furthermore, that
his opponents will have hard time
be3t;ng him, for the reascl. that bis
course in tho tariff struggle was pop
ular in tho Badger state.
They admit that in recent years
Senator La Toilette has found it diff
cult, II not impossible, to get elected
to Office in Wisconsin the men whose
cause he espoused
But just wait until Bob runs him
SELF" is the way his. adherents talk.
"They can't beat him"
Senator Lea Toilette will pay no at
teHtion to the activities of the Steph-
enson element for the present. He
will go about the country lecturing at
g good round sum per lecture About
year hence. he will mobilize force
of two automobiles at Madison, and
will start on tour of the whole state.
II he skips hamlet and fails to make
a speech there it will he because the
maps are poor or the roads hard to
find