Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-09-21
TAFT IS
ON TRIP
President to Explain His Measures
and Vetoes on Coast to
Coast Trip.
POLITICS ARE WARMING UP
LaFollette Forces are Doing Their
Best to Discredit Taft's
Reciprocity.


President Taft travels west on his
tour of the country, he is likely TO
encounter a condition within the
ranks of his own party quite differ
ent from that with which his prede-
cessors of the presidency have
found while making their pilgrim
ages among .le people, in the year
preceding the denomination period.
Mr. Taft will find the democrats,
while divided up as to their candidate
for next year nevertheless coniident
of "a 1912 victory and ready to enlist
under the leadership of any standard
bearer who may be selected. 1t is
within his own party that the real
danger of republican success lies,and
"a handful of few western states are
furnishing most ,of the trouble TAX
\ ing advantage of the reciprocity sit
uation, there has been sent out from
the headquarters of the progressive
republican league in Washington,
great quantities of Senator La Fol-
lettes speech entitled "Sham Reci-
procity" The league IL using every
effort to discredit the Taft admin
istration with the farmers, and in a
declaration from their headquarters 1t
is declared: vs..
| "In the recent session of CON
gress the progressive republicans
fought with their backs to the
wall to get simple Justice for the
33,O00,000 people engaged in and
dependent upon ,agriculture.They
used every legitimate weapon to
prevent abe sacrifice of the agri-
cultural interests for the benefit
of the railroads, the Beef Trust,
the Coal Trust, the Flour Trust
and all the ouerprotected man
ufacturers and trusts"
La Toilette Active.
The progressive republicans de-
clare that they have united to make
a campaign for the control of the
1912 convention" They are sending
out quantities of literature to the
farmers and are inviting replies as to
conditions in different localities.
Their statement is that they wish to
know the sentiment of the people,
especially the farmers, toward Sena-
tor La Toilette"
The activity of the La Toilette out
side of Wisconsin, which is conceded
to it's "favurite son." has been en-
phasized in Minnesota during the past
week, where big boom was launched
for the Wisconsin senator; and in
this affair Congressman Lenroot, who
is regarded as Mr.. LaFollette's clos
est confident made an attack upon
President Taft. About the same time
the candidacy OF Congressman Norris
for Senator Of Nebraska was launch
ed, and it was given out fat-footed
that an attempt would be made to de-
feat the election of Taft delegation
from the State of Nebraska.
# TAFT On Trip.
In the meantime President Taft
has started for his trip to the Pacific
coast and enroute he will defend the
policies Of his administration and
tell the people why reciprocity, which
has been promised them since the
days of Blaine and Mckinley, will
prove beneficial to the country, and
he will attempt to demonstrate that
this is not Sham reciprocity" that he
has secured for the United States.
He will maintain and try to prove
that the real opposition to it comes
from selfish manufacturing interests
1 who have had their only hope in the
movement OF the insurgents. More
than that the President proposes to
defend his famous vetoes upon the
!. wool bill and the so-called farmers
i free list measure. The president win
1 advocate more sanity in the framing
of tariff schedules, and will defend
the tariff board, which has laborious-
Z " tried to put this great question on
[ a basis where more intelligent laws
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