The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-30
SUPREME COURT
LAMBASTEO BY
LA TOILETTE
Senator Continues His Cam
paign in Ohio.
BEFORE LARGE CROWDS
Says Courts Findings in Standard OIL
and Tobacco Cases was Usurpa-
ton Of Power

Dayton, O., Dec 3O.-In nearing the
end of his speechmaking trip in Ohio
preaching the doctrine of progressive
republicanism, Senator Robert M. La
Toilette of Wisconsin travelled the
western part of the state yesterday
He closed his day with meeting in
Memorial hall He reiterated the as
sertion he made at the noon meeting
at North Baltimore that the supreme
court of the United States assumed
legislative powers never granted by
the constitution in its rulings on the
Sherman antitrust law. On the trip
from Toledo by trolley three-mln
utes' unschedued speech was made
to a group which assembled about
the car at Bowling Green, but the car
pulled out while the senator was stlll
speaking.
At North Baltimore where an aean-
doned tabernacle was used for the
meeting the sign Get right with
God" was still strung across the END
of the building above the back OF
the senator. Pointing to this sign he
read it aloud and paraphrased 1t by
saying, Get right with your state
and get right with your country
Senator La Toilette referred to the
afternoon meeting in his speech last
might and repeated the admonition he
made in the afternoon. He urged the
citizens of Dayton and Montgomery
county ito understand the progress
i've movement by getting right with
their state and country"
Representative government, the
progressive creed" said the senator
sis serving by public officials to the
people and not to the interests. II
isn't representative government now
Fortunately you do have a represen
tative in Congress who does serve
the public interest" While discus
sing this topic Senator La Toilette
suddenly stopped, grew red in tht
face and said to his hearers, Say my
collar is too tight Can | take 1t off?'
Amid shouts of Eyes he removed the
annoying neck band and went OF
speaking.
For the first time on this trip the
senator declared Tor votes for won
en-. Il say that the women have al
much right to the ballot as the men,
he said do You know that there
are 100000 women in this countr!
earning their living by day wages an'
they are adding 10 the wealth OF tn'
nation. For this reason they have
moral right to have a voice IN TIM
questions of sanitation and ali tha
goes to improve living conditions o
the home which are governed by leg
islation | tell you your ballot Is
valuable thing. You don't cast man,
OF them in your life, especially whel
you vote for president
Denunciation OF the supreme court
decision in the Standard Oil and An
erican tobacco trust cases and Of IN
republican national committee for i
failure TO order a presidential pin
AIRY In those states where such prt
cedure would not be Illegal marke
the speech At North Baltimore. Tn
speaker declared that the courts ru
lNB us 10 IfW 'idplt lNsNioihN
trade" was an usurpation of powe
He said that he was not hid
bound republican and would join an
parties that could do better towar
restoring rule to the people.
MIR. La Toilette said further: ut
the recall which ! would extend I
the courts. would extend consider
able more time between the filing q
the petition and the balloting for III
recall OF Judge than | would for
coroner. But ] would make them a
subject to q review Of their acts B
the people by whom they were a
pointed"
The people. he said, know now Tia,
their government is no longer repre-
entative, and they also know no
that there Is n movement on foot
make the government more represc
tative. "If." he added, there Is OF
thing more than another that HI
been put TO the front In this cal
paign by the progressives 1t is q
demand for the election OF delegate
TO the national convention by pop
lar primary elections and provisiC
by which electors might directly G
press their choice for PRESIDENT
candidates on their party ticket"
After the conference at Columb
Monday between Senator La Toilet
and progressive republican leade
from all parts of the United States
plans for Mr.. La Follette's campai
for the presidential nomination Mi
Fola La Toilette, daughter OF the W
consin senator, will plead the eau
OF woman suffrage before a woman
meeting Tuesday Her advocacy
the suffrage cause was announv
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