Arizona republican., 1911-12-29
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The La Toilette Campaign.

Robert Marion La Toilette. United States senator from the state Of Wis consin, who. by speeches. magazine ar ticles and by means of his newspaper. is conducting q vigorous campaign for the presidential nomination has made bid for the support of the northern democrats. He says the northern members of that party really belong under the insurgent banner.
 Anything to get votes Probably the blunders of the national democ- racy are Of kind especially to appeal to a man Of La Fcllette's Iempera- ment AL all events. The Republican agrees with the Wisconsin statesman that the democrats who live north of the Mason and Dixon line ii they de- sire to live up to their history. could not do better than follow this advice.
 And if they should do so. they would be doing just what they did once before II will be recalled that in 1872 the democrats did endorse the liberal republican candidate. Horace Greeley. Greeley stood for greenoack- ism and plenty of it, which meant that he stood virtually for the repudiation Of the debt incurred by the prosecu- 1ion of the civil war. And it is a matter of history that this agsrega- ton was beaten by the regular repub- licans so badly that after the election it almost required the use of mi croscope to discover d democrat Is il a repetition of that bit of history that AIr. La Toilette is seeking?
 Substantially the same thing oc- cured in 1896. when there was an all Hance between the democrats and pop ulists, and when William J. Bryan was beaten by the largest majority that had ever been cast up to that time. La Toilette ought to he a star with the democrats. That party has stood for pretty nearly every absurdity. and it is respectfully suggested that an alliance of that kind would he one of the most appropriate things that could happen.
 And just imagine what such an alignment would mean. There would be Senator La Toilette and Charlie Mur- phy. Clapp and Fingy Corners. Jimmie Garfield and Bath House John. Cum mins and Sullivan. all marching under the same glorious banner of insur gency. It's shame that Sockless Jerry Simpson and Mary Ellen Lease are not alive and in the game La Toilette would get their support with ont a doubt.
 But to look at the matter in the light of common sense. La Follette's appeal is childish. Such northern ideas of radicalism as represented by the Wisconsin man are already in his organization. And there are thousands of them, too, which is matter of rejoicing among the republicans. But to suppose that Champ Clark, Cover nor Harmon, Woodrow Wilson, Simeon Baldwin. Eugene Foss. and a half dog en other democratic leaders will con sent to be the tail to Mir La Follettes extremely small kite is too good to be true. The Republican would he very glad to announce democratic disrup- tion Of such proportions but it has too much regard for the truth and too much respect for the intelligence of it's readers.
 The truth of the matter is simply this President Taft will he renomi- mated La Toilette doesn't have a look in. Presidential nominations are not won by hysteria. Much talk has lately been heard of the chance Of La Toilette under the presidential primary system But the fact remains that to be nominated he would have to carry the big states east of the Mississippi river. and everybody who knows any thing about it knows he couldn't get a single one of them.
 There will be a great deal of talk and buster between this time and the time when the convention meets next June. Then, there is every indication