Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-10-19
b ] ON
Opening of tie Progressive Presi-
DENTAL Campaign Marked ~
Denunciation of inf.
LA'FoLLETE A WAS END ORsED
Chicago Meeting Recommend hes
Wisconsin Senator for the
Freside dency.

4 Chicago, Oct. 49,. Bitter excoriation
4 Of President Taft q promise TO carry
a the fight for presidential nomination
Il to the American fireside, and plea
!. for the aid Of American women mark
y ed the opening here last night OF the
n Icampaign Of the progressive element;
\ of the republican party, as 1t styles
4 itself, to nominate Senator Robert M.
i i Ia Toilette for the republican candi.
i Idacy for president. a3Sss8
clspp$ on Recall. sg
Senator Noses p. Clapp OF Minne.
sofa, brought the denunciation OF.
President Taft to It's sharpest climax
4 after Senator Coe Crawford of
4 South Dakota had been nterrupt pted BY
a dissenter In the audience and lad
been forced to quit speaking bg the
4 assistance given him by his audiences
IN qnelljng the one-man insurrection.
4 Calling the chief executives action III
the Arizona statehood matter tie
! iblac ckest chapter in all tyranny OUT
side Of the absolute despotism of an
1nnbfidled king, z, Senator Clapp said
4 4 Il: IL: part iss #
Now whether you believe in the re-
lean or not, think you will agree With
me that it is not fors you say
whether the people ef Arizona shall i
have the recall We had this question
up inscongress. We said the people of
Arizona must vote on the question
again and whatever way they voted
they would be allowed to come into
the union. And, my friend, the presi.S
dent Of the United States vetoed that
resolution and one was passed proyid.
Ing that the people of Arizona must 1
vote against the recall SO they can put \
Iit into their constitution after their
admission.
| a fine lesson TO each people on
the threshold of admission to this
union! What, think you, would say
The disembodied spirits of those men
whose bones lie mouldering on the
battlefields of the republic If, looking
down. they could realize that the price
OF admission TO this union was a stul-
tjfication OF the electorate Of the In
dividual states?
want to say that this is the black
est chapter in all tyranny outside the
despotism of an unbritled king. And
remember, whom the gods would de-
stroy they first made mad 2
The speakers at the mass meeting
were Walter G.. Jones, progressive
candidate for governor of Illinois; SEN
ator coe !. Crawford, ex- Alderman
Charles RI Merriam OF Chicago, Geo.
l. Record Of New Jersey and Senator
Clapp.
MI. Merriam voiced promise to
| carry the campaign past meeting or 4
men to the fireside, saying in this
connection that the progressive ap-
peal would be made by Senator La
Fcllette and his followers to women
as well as men.
| Crawford Interrupted.
Senator Crawford elaborated on
this feature and was in the midst of
la denunciation of 'jack-pottism" and
the bribery of legislatures when i
man giving the name Of Rudolph NJ. y.
Patterson asked If it were not true
that Senator LaFollette, after receiy-
ing financial aid from Senator Steph-
enson, had turned from him and act.
ed the part OF an migrate.
| Immediately the meeting was in,s
VOWED in an lproar which was quieted
when scores had attempted to
do violence to the interrupter and
policeman had been called. Senator
Crawford then quit speaking s3
Senator Loriner came in for at
tacks by all She speakers, chiefly
Senator Crawford and Mr.. Merriam.
The South Dakota senator called him
the product Of tjack-pottism'' and
cried
Shame upon yofI for this condition
In the state of Lincoln! When thu
laws governing your people are the
product Of Jackpot at Springfield