The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-30

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so-called tobacco trust and made a
plea for Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette,
/ in his candidacy for the Republican
presidential nomination.
NOW want to tell you a little about
| Bob LaF'Ollette," he said Five or six
years ago a senator began to drop into
| the forest service. office. The Curl
GUS fact about it was that he came of
/ his own motion to help the service, and
\ he was about the only one who did.
/ Until that time had known him mere
| ly by reputation; that he was solitary
man at the Capitol frowned upon and
sneered at, feared and dislized by the
old leaders; for he represented a point
of view which had then many less fol-
1 lowers in the senate than it has today.
I watched his fights and saw that
! he had courage. I watched the legisla-
| ton he supported and saw that he had
common sense. I came to understand
| what he had done and saw that he was
wise AS I got to know him, I found
him as lOvable as he was strong. be-
gan to ask his help and when I asked I
got it. both to fight bad bills and to get
good bills passed.
Speaking of the Alaskan situation
Mr.. Pinchot said:
Special privilege lies at the root Of
the attempt, not yet defeated to 10
nopolize the resources of Alaska It IS
the hope of undue advantage which in
cites the grabbers of water power, the
public timber and the public lands
Nearly every serious defect working of
our government can be traced to the
corrupting alliance of money and poll
tics in search Of special privileges. or to
defects in the forms or OF operations of
our government which invite men to
seek undue advantage over their fell
lows, or make it easy for them to get it
and use It"
LaFoTIetts Moves On.
Dayton, o., Dec. 3O=Nearing the
a K inc fT~if Of
preaching the doctrine of progressive
RepubIcanism, Senator Robert NJ
LaFollette of Wisconsin, travelled the
western part of the state closing his
day with a meeting in M emorial hall,
where he reiterated his assertion made
at the noon meeting at North BaIti-
more, that the supreme court of the
United States had assumed legislative
powers never granted by the constitu-
ton in its rulings on the Sherman
antitrust law.
On the trip from Toledo by trolley,
three-minute, unSch eduled speech
was made to a group that assembled
about the car at Bowling Green, the
car pulling out on its way while the
senator was still speaking.
Senator LaFollette referred to the
afternoon meeting in his remarks last
night and repeated his admonition of
the afternoon, urging the citizens of
Dayton and Montgomery county to
understand the progressive move
ment by getting right with their state
and country.
Representative government, the
progressive creed said the senator,
is service by public officials to the
people and not to the interests. 1t is
not representative government now.
Fortunately, you do have a represen-
tative in congress who does serve the
public interests.
While discussing this topic, Sena-
tor LaFollette suddenly stopped. grew
md eraid 70 hi h.
Say, my collar is too tight Can l
take it off,
Takes Off His Collar
Midst the shouts Of yes he re-
moved the annoying neck band.
For the first time this trip the
senator declared for votes for women.
4 say that the women have as much
right to the ballot as the men, he
said.
do you know that there are seven
million women in this country earning
their living by day wages. and they
are adding to the wealth of the nation
For this reason they have a moral
right to have voice in the questions
of sanitation and all that goes to i'm
prove living conditions of the home,
which are governed by legislation.
Il tell you your ballots are a valuable
thing. You don't cast many of them
in your life, especially when you vote
for president.
The progressive movement. it was
declared sshas no motive toward
changing the present form of govern
ment. 1t is not the idea to abolish
legislatures or houses of representa-
tives. but to abolish those built up by
political machinery and to bring the
citizen in touch with the man who is
transacting his business by establish
ing the direct vote, from president
down to coroner. That is bringing
government right up to the people,"
i
referendum and the recall, for which
he declared the progressives stand,
Senator IaFollette illustrated the lat
ter by saying "a bank puts the recall
on a clerk or employee that IS caugnt
stealing, and you would put the recall
on any man who loafed on his job"
When he declared he would extend
the recall to the judiciary. the senator
said some of them get what is called
a corporation squint. They are not re-
elected just because they are judges
Miss LaFOIIette to Campaign.
Columbus O., Dec 30.-FolIowing
the conference of progressive Repub
lican" leaders from all parts of the
United States here next Monday with
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette on plans
for his campaign for the presidency,
Miss FoIa LaFollette, daughter of the
Wisconsin senator, will plead the
cause of woman suffrage before a wo-
mans meeting here Tuesday. The ad-
vocacy of the suffrage cause was an
nounced here following the receipt of
an acceptance of an invitation to
speak by the senator's daughter.
Rrandeis to Minnesota.
Minneapolis, Mimi. Dec 30.-Louis
D. Brandeis of Boston, attorney for
William CLAWS in the congressional
investigation of the office of former
Secretary of the Interior r. A. Bal
linger, is to inaugurate the presiden-
tiaI compaign in Minnesota of Senator
Robert NJ LaFollette with two -ad-
dresses here next Tuesday. His chief
address will be in the evening and
he ai.c,s of