The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-28
LA TOILETTE
 BEARDS TAFT
OPENS HIS PROGRESSIVE" GAM PAlGN IN OHIO SPEAKING TO
 IMMENcE AUDIENCES.
Asks Democrats to Join His Party and Calls Southerners "Democrats
 of Class and Arr
 istroracy."

Cleveland, Dec. 27. Senator La Toilette, now an ayowed candidate for the presidential nomination on the principles outlined as progress siye republican" tonight closed his first day of campaigning in President Taft's state with a largely attended meeting in the Cleveland Grays Ar mory after few hours visit at Youngstown in the afternoon.
 While at both meetings consider able attention was paid to corpora tions and their growth and conduct, the greater part of the speeches were devoted to explaning what was meant by progressive republicanism' and what the ''progressives" have done in their control of the state gov ernment in Wisconsin.
 The initiative, referendum, and the recall were strongly acclaimed as car dinal principles of the "progtessves" here tonight. while an appeal was also made for democrats to join the progressive movement as the only true democracy.
 The senator's audience was an en- thusiastic one and frequently urged him to proceed when he made an attempt to shorten hts addressds Repeated invitations were offered from the audience to 'come again" when the senator announced that 1t was the first time he had been in Cleveland.
 Tomorrow morning Senator La. Fol- lette will leave for Norwalk, Ohio. where he will speak in the afternoon. He will speak at Toledo at night.
 Closely following Senator La Fol. lette was former Secretary James E Garfield. cue Of the committee that received the Wisconsin senator
 John D. Faekler, state secretary oi the proSressives, presided over the meeting. He presented Senator La Folettee as the man who has de- stToySd the bipartisan politics ot Big Business in Wisconsin and the next president of llle United States
 For several minutes Senator La Fol lette was deterred from speaking by the cheers of the crowd. He depart. ed somewhat from the speech he hao planned by launching into the primary ballot law. He then took Up the discrSsion of trusts, quoting from a book by Ambassador James Bryce, to illustrate his point Of view
 In his discussion of trusts Mr. La Toilette said the combinaticn of cor poratons was the cause of the high cost of living, because they controlled prices and that ''God Almighty never made a board of directors good en- ough to control the hmes and fami lies of an American citizen" /"
 During Senator La Follette's ar raignment of the Standard On Com panypany and the banking institutions of the country, Frank Rockefeller. a brother of John D., sat on the plat form wearing committeeman's badge.
 Mir. La Toilette made vigorous appeal to democrats, to joa the progressive republicans. because he said, they only represented true democracy, and charged that the democrats of the South were "demo- cracy of class and aristocracy.
 The initiative. referendum and the recall were declared to be tenets of the progressives. The applause in- creased when he insisted the recall should be applied to judges
 With all my respect for the courts as lawyer l don't feet that they are so holy that they are incorruptlble There are judges who have served corporate interests so long they can not see straight. They mean to be honest but they can't hold the scales of justice level. We progressives stand for applying the recall to ths judges. :"
 The bureau Of corporations was characterized as the most wonderful institution in the world and the speaker commended Commissioners Herbert Knox Smith and his prede. cessor James R. Garfield, to whom he turned He said the bureau was doing great things indetermin'ng the valuation of corporate properties.