The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-29
LAFOLLETTE TALKS
 ON THE TRUSTS Greeted by Immense Audi ence in Toledo Yesterday ADDRESS AT NORWALK Beside Trusts, Self Government, the Iniative, Referendum, Recall, the
 Primary Law and Direct Vote
 for Senators Discussed
ADDRESS AT NORWALK

Toledo, O., December 2S.-Senator La Toilette in his campaign through Ohio, for progressive republication talked to another large audience here tonight The hall which had been engaged was inade- quate for those who came to hear, and before the senator's arrival the police closed the doors.
 Self government and the trusts, the in- itiative, referendum and recall, the pri- mary ballot law and direct vote for United States senators. MT. LaFollette disucssed at length but devoted more attention to the trusts than at any pre- vious meeting. He said in part:
 The will of the people shall be the law of the land. Constitution, statutes, court and all the complex details of govern ment aref but instruments to carry out the will of the people, and when they fail-when constitutions and statutes and all of the agencies employed to execute 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 changed de- clared the speaker, and you standpat- ters take notice. The people have never failed in any crisis; you haven't got a. representative government in state or nation today"
 Charging that self government was be- ing jeopardzed by the trusts, Senator LaFollette asserted a crisis was at hand. He declared so powerful had two names become that they dominated all busi- ness, they are Morgan and Standard oil. and every banker in the hall knows it.
 Taking up further the trust topic, the personnel of the so called combinations along the lines of his talk in Cleveland last night.
 In his research of the trusts, MT. La Toilette declared he round 96 men on all the directorates of all the trusts. Chauncy M. Depew,'' he said, was on 72. and I found that he had no money invested-he was only a dummy. and then l wondered how many other dunn mics there were, and then l found only fourteen men controlled and were back of all these names.
 Back of all this I found Standard Oil and Morgan. and I put all this infor- nation in the congressional record. Do you think I could stand here and say this if there wasn't bedrock fact for 1t.
 And these people have not over looked the newspapers. Their organs are poisoning the public mind-they int they declare me to be a menace to business"
 In his closing Senator LaFollette turned his attention again to his home state and how. it's government is run, giving stress to it's regulation of rail road rates, "a thing that Wisconsin does to the benefit of the people and the railroads. The federal govern ment has been trying to find feasible way to do this for 40 years and has not done it yet"
 The meeting of the afternoon at Nor walk, at which the senator stopped on the way here from Cleveland by troll ley road, was the first at which he took up the tariff on his Ohio trip.
 Tomorrow Senator LaFollette will speak at North Boston at noon and at night at Dayton.
 Columbus, Ohio, December 2S.-That President Taft's visit to Ohio the last week in January will be in the nature of a homecoming and will not be to follow in the trail of either Senator LaFollette or anyone else opposing his renomination, was the statement to- night of men who are active in the interest of MT. Taft in his home state.
 Both national committeeman, A. l.. Vorys and L. c. Laylin, chairman of the republican state executive commit tee, made the declaration that Mr. Taft's proposed visit had been planned and would be carried out without any reference whatever to politics or his own political interests. Both men re- fused to concede that there was such opposition to the President in Ohio as would necesstate his doing any per- sonal campaigning
 Ashland, Ohio, December 2S.-Relat- ing the story of the struggle of in surgency" and why it alone, as he said. represented the true spirit of repub- licanism, Senator Clapp here tonight made the third of his addresses in his five day progressive campaign in Ohio.
 During his address he avoided men, ton of the name of President Taft but frequently made uncomplimentary ref. erence to the administration"
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