The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-29
LA TOILETTE FLAYSS TRUSTS
PAYS RESPECT TO MORGAN AND STANDARD OIL IN SERIES OF
 SPEECHES IN OHIO.
Declares That Public Policy is Going to be Changed--"The People Have Never Failed in Any
 Crisis", He Says.


 Toilette, in his campaign th.Uugh Ohio for progressive repubhcanism, talked to another large audience here tonight. The hall which had been engaged vas inadequate for those who came to hear and Sefore the senator's arrival the police closed the doors.
 Self government and the trusts, the initiative, referendum and recall, the primary ballot law and direct vote of United States senators, Mir. La Toilette discussesd at length, but de. voted more attention to the trusts than at any previous meeting. say- ing:
 The will of the people shall be the law of the land. Constitution, status, courts and all the complex details of government are but instruments to carry out the will of the people und when they fail-when constitutions and statutes fail-they must be changed so as to carry out and ex- press the well formulated judgment and the will of the people.
 And it's going to be cnanged'. de clared the speaker, and you stand patters take notice. The people have never failed in any crisis; you haven't got a representative government in the state or nation today"
 Charging that self government was being jeopardized by the trusts, Sea ator La Toilette asserted crisis was at hand. He declared that so power- ful had two names become that they dominated all business. "thsy are Morgan aud Standard Oil an devery banker in the hall knows it.
 Taking up further the trust topic, the senator went into tine 6.sanizs- tion and personnel of the so-called combinations along the lines Of his talk in Cleveland last night In his research of the trusts Mir. La Toilette declared he found 96 men on all the directorates of all the trusts. "Chaun cey M Depew'', he said twas on 72 and found that he had no money lnvested-he was only a dummy, and then wondered how many other dummies there were and then found that only fourteen men controlled and were back of all these 96 names
 And back of all uhis I found the Standard and Morgan and I put all this information in the Congressional Record. Do you think could stand here and say this if there wasn't bed rock facts for it?'
 And these people have not oyer- looked the newspapers. Their organs are poisoning the public mind-tney are not serving your interest when they declare me to be menace to business.'
 In closing, Senator La Toilette turn ed his attention again to his home state and how its government is run sivins stress to it's regulation of rail road rates. "a thing that does to the benefit of the people and the rail roads The federal government has been trying to find feasible wa to do this for forty years and hasn done it yet, he said.
 The meeting of the afternoon a Norwalk for which the senator stop ped on the way here from Cleveland hy trolley road. was the first at whicl he took up the tariff on his Ohio trlp'
 Tomorrow Senator La Toilette WI speak at North Baltimore and at nigh at Dayton
 Taft to vt5it Ohio.
 Columbus. O., Dec. That Pres ident Taf4's visit to Ohio the las week In January will be a the ma ture of home coming and will no be to follow in the train Of either sen ator La Toilette or anyone else oI posing his rc.nomlnation, was th statement tonight Of men who are ac tive in the interest of Mir. Taft in 'hl home state.
 Both National Committeeman A. Vorys, and L. c. Laylin, chairms Of the republican state executive com mttee. made the declaration tha Mir. Taft's prospective had been plai ned and would be carried out witho' any reference whatever to polite Or bis own nolitical interests