Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-10
LA TOILETTE THE LEADER.
Wisconsin Senator a Power to Be
Reckoned With,

trouble FOR the senate high priests Of
money. Mr.. Root has defended them.
1t is publicly as well. There is safety
in opposition. danger turks in the
unanimous. When folk go all one
way, the boat tips over.
If 1 am to judge, Mr.. La Toilette
will one day have the senate in his
grasp as he has Wisconsin in his
grasp.
When?
The senate is slow place to fight
in-like a swamp
AS between Mr.. Root and Mr.. La
Toilette, the latter is the stronger
One is a sword, the other a sledge.
The sword has finish, edge; the sledge
has weight inertia. When they clash
the sword breaks. the sledge remains
Aside from Mr.. Root, among Mr.
La Follette's pet enemies is Senator
Tillman. The feud will breed no per-
IL to Mr.. La Toilette. Mr.. Tillman is
full Of lip valors and verbal ferocities.
Altogether oral, he would be hailed
among the Indians as the big Noise"
He talks blood, but never sheds it.
Mr.. La Toilette comes of the Hugue-
nots. The Huguenots talk little, laugh
less, and always fight. Also, you can
Kill but you can not conquer Hugue-
not.
Consider Mr.. La Toilette for his
strain and fashion as a man. It may
aid you in concluding whether 1 am
right or wrong in saying he will one
day rule the senate.
To Mr.. La Toilette the world breaks
into two classes-his followers and his
foes. At that, he doesn't lead he
drives, and walks behind his people
so as to make them fight beneath his
eye. Let one show weakness and he
beats him down. For he holds fail
ure to be the highest form Of treason.
In his soldierly skill for organization,
in his unflinching egotism that never
hides and scorns to be concealed
Mr.. La Toilette is another Napoleon.
Former to crush but not to con-
ciliate, he will never fall by virtue
or vice-of any sympathies, nor find
defeat because he failed to strike. He
will run no risks which he can force
the foe to take. No viper warmed upon
his hearth will ever fang him, since
he invites no one to the hearth-stone
of his confidence. He likes mountains,
delights in precipices. Mountains weed
out the weak, who fall exhausted by
the way, while precipices are as so
many open chances to push overheard
an enemy. He will never overesti-
mate a foe. Therein lies the golden
secret of all military success. Never
overestimates the enemy. Underesti-
mate him. To overestimate the foe
loses battle, to underestimate him
wins them.
The La Toilette motive Is ambition.
He fights money, not from principle,
but as a method as Aaron Burr fought
money. 1t is the short cut to a fol-
lowing. Likewise it pleases him to
fight money. He hates it for its inso-
lence, and because of its efforts to
make slaves of men. His effort Is to
turn men into soldiers. The separation
between Mr.. La Toilette and money Is
radical and not to be bridged. He
looks for power, money looks for
profit. 1t is the difference between a
paladin and a pawnbroker. Had Taci-
tus known the La Follettes, he would
have said to them, as he said Of the
Germans: "Others go to battle; these
go to war"
There you have the fashion Of man
who has set out to be master of the
senate. He will take every advan-
tage which the enemy offers. He will
come. and keep coming. They will
never be rid of him, now he has
found the passes through the senate
Alps. Nothing short Of the enemy's
utter surrender will satisfy this Bren-
nus.
In climbing the ladder of office, Mr..
La Toilette fought his way up rung
by rung. He fought Senator Sawyer,
fought Senator Spooner. Mr.. Sawyer
died: Mr.. Spooner grew weary. There
still was Mr.. La Follete, as tireless
and as blood hungry as one OF WIS
consin's black timber wolves.
Mr.. La Toilette has square.
smooth, hard, indomitable face. 1t is
the face of one who has zen trouble,
is looking for more trouble and would
be unhappy if he didn't find trouble.
His eyes are level, hard, steady, un-
blinking. There is no mercy. no kind
ness, no generosity, but mighty res
olution second only to mightier ego
tiSm in those eyes. They never laugh,
they never weep, they never waver,
they never yield. And they are always
glancing about for something to claim,
something to take possession OF, some
thing to go to war over.
Mr.. La Follete is money honest. He
wouldn't touch dollar with stain
on it. Also, he doesn't care for mon
ey; doesn't banker to be rich. or
mere power he will never have
enough. Also, in his power hunt, he
has no friendship. A David without
a Jonathan, a Pythias without Da-
mon, is Huguenot La Toilette, one day
to be a Caesar Of the senate.