The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-28
LAFOLLETTE IS IN
 TAF 'SOWN STATE
Closes First Day of Cam
 paign in Cleveland
TRUSTS ARE DISCUSSED
Initiative, Referendum and Recall Strongly Acclaimed as Cardinal Principles of Progressive"
 in Cleveland Speech

1 Cleveland, December 27.-Senator La- Toilette, now an ayowed candidate for
 the presidential nomination on the prin- ciples outlined as progressive repub-
 tican." closed his first day of campaign 1 ing in President Tafts state with a largely attended meeting in the Cleveland Gray's cemetery after a few
 hours visit at Youngstown in the aft
 ernoon. While at both meetings con-
 siderable attention was paid 10 the cor
 porations and their growth and con- I duct the greater part of the speeches
 were devoted to explaining what was meant by progressive repnblicanis1n and what the progressive republicans' ! have done in their control of the state government In Wisconsin.
 The initiative, referendum and re-
 call were strongly acclaimed as car- dinal principles of the "progressives" I here tonight and an appeal was also made for democrats to join the pro gressive movement as the only true democracy. The sena tors audience was an enthusiastic one and frequently
 urged him to proceed when he made an attempt 10 shorten his address. Re- peated invitations were offered from
 the audience to come again" when the senator announced if was the first time l he had been in Cleveland.
 Tomorrow Senator I.aFollette will
 leave for Norwalk, Ohio, where he will speak in the afternoon. He will speak at Toledo at night.
 large armory was packed tonight with citizens of Ohio's metropolis when Senator LaFollette opened his second meeting of the progressive invasion" of President Taft's own state. Upon the appearance of the progressive leader the crowd rose and cheered.
 Closely following Senator LaFollette was former Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield, one of the commit tee that received the Wisconsin sen ator.
 1 John D. Fackler state secretary of the progressives, presided over the
 meeting. He presented Senator LaFol- l lette as "the man who has destroyed l the bipartisan politics of big busi- ness in Wisconsin and the next Pres ident Of ttie United states" For several minutes Senator LaFol-
 lette was deterred from speaking by
 the cheers of the crowd The senator
 arrived here late this afternoon from l lohHSStoWils where lie spoke today. Senator LaFollette departed some-
 what from the speech he had planned by launching into the primary ballot l law. He then took up the discussion | of trusts, quoting from a book by Am bassador James Bryce to illustrate his point of view
 In his discussion of trusts Mr. LaFo ol- lette said the combination of corporations was the cause of the high cost of living
 because they control prices and that God Almighty never made board of dlrec- tors good enough to control the homes and families of an American citizen, . during his arraignment of the Standard Oil company and the banking institutions Of the country. Frank Rockefeller, a brother of John D. Rockefeller. sat on the platform wearing a committeeman's s badge.
 MT. LaFollette made a vigorous appeal to democrats to join the progressive re- publicans because he said they only rep resented a true democracy and charged that the democrats of the south were "a democracy of class and aristocracy."
 In speaking of the initiative, referendum and recall Senator LaFollette said: With all my respect for the courts as a lawyer I do not feel that they are so holy that they are incorruptible. There are judges who have served corporations SO long that they can't sec straight. They mean to be honest but they can't hold the scales of justice level. We progress sives stand for applying the recall to them"
 The bureau of corporations was charac- terized as the most wonderful institution in the world and the speaker eommendeo Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith and his predecessor, James R. Garfield to whom he turned. He said the bureau was doing great things in determining the valuation of corporation properties Alliance. O., December 27.--Praising Sem ator LaFollette for his efforts to make popular government a reality and pre- dieting the coming of mighty struggle to secure the initiative, referendum and recall, even of the judiciary, Senator Clapp made the second of his addresses in the progressive" republican campaign in Ohio here tonight. His mention of Roose- welt elcted brief applause. He vigor- ously advocated a presidential primary.