The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-08
LA TOILETTE
 BOOM IS ON
CONGRESSMAN LENRooT AND
 SENATOR cuMMlNs BOTH i LAUD WISCONSIN MAN.
lenroot Develops Into an Averaging insursent on Trist-of Taft--cum- mins Calls LaF ofette a
 Patriot.

| N'hhcaPoiSS NAhii'b otpl- t-oSH' ator La Toilette found an ardent champion and President Taft an aveD- fging insurgent in Congressman Len root of Wisconsin at banquet of Minnesota progressive republicans |nere tonight. The Wisconsin con- gressman and Professor c. F.. Mer riam of Chicago, late republican can didate for mayor of that city were the principal speakers, although Stat Senator Ole O. Sagehg of Otoer Tail County, an original La Toilette man. stood in the iimelight long enough to say that "a dean democrat in all I probability wolsd carry Minnesota if fTaft were renomInated."
 The banquet formally opened the La Toilette campaign in Minnesota for the nomination from president on the republican ticket.
 More than 300 republicans sat at the banquet table.
 Tho United States sena5e for iyears,' said Congressman Lenroot in the course of his address, has been looked upon as the very citadel Of special privilege"
 Having paid exalted tri5ute 70 Senator La Toilette as a constructive statesman. and as an indefatigable foe of the interests, the speaker said:
 Great progress has been made but it is under difficulty. Here, he ar- ,raigned President Taft for alleged un. fathfulnfss to Hhs people. since March 4, 1999,' he said, 1t mas been difficult to Nell who was the presi- deat of the United States, or where he should be placed. Ele ted as a progressive republican, President Taf close reactionary cabinet
 I'tfore election he condemned re. dictionaries aud espoused ths koose- vet policies. After election he ap- pointad Ballihger and retired Gar field and Pinchot. Every progres- sive republican in hhe senate and house incurred his displeasure and Aldrich and Cannon became his ad- visors. He then attempted to pun- ish the progrfssfve republicans p the house and senate by deprivine them of all control over federal pal lronage. This act conclusively shows how little conception the president has for the character of progressive republicans and what they are fight ing for. If any progressive republi- can had been coerced by this attempt Of thel president he would have been u traitor to the country"
 Walter L. Houser. secretary of tn NaujonalS Progressive Republican League in charge of the leagues reau at Washington attended the banquet. He voucnsafed the opinion that the progressive republicans would control the next national re- publican convention.
 MT. Merriam did not mention the name of Senator La Toilette nor Pres idtnt Taft.
 Mir. Lenroot condemned the recip- ocity agreement with Cgnaoa, declar irg history would ssccrd the a.- tempted betrayal oi ,. iDg. .v9G Of our farmers to the greed of great inter ests." He also eondeinnad the Iues- idenS for signing ths Payne .Aidrich tariff measure, while yosong -hc re- cent tariff measures --,le products of insurgency.
 i, ii, Ea.eSl:.s La Eclletes i Des Moines, la, Sep. '. -Cnarae- terizlng Senator La Toilette as patriot with an eye single to the good of tlheI country and as one to whom providence has given a strong mind and inflexible purpose. senator Albert lB. Cummins addressed the Iowa Tippecanoe Club here tonight in what was called the opening of the 1912 campaign in Iowa.
 Senator CumminS had nOt ihtehuea to discuss Senator La Toilette bw his opinion was called forth when member of the club insisted that h Istate his opinion of the Wiscons
 senator. His speech was devoted mainly to a discussion of the peace treaties which he prefaced with short reference to the tariff prob Vem, stating that there was no more ardent protectionist in the country than aie.