The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-11-02
WILSON AND BRYAN
BOOST LAF0[LETTE
Rare Tribute Paid to Wisconsin s
Militant Senator BY Great
Democrats. ..


Last Thursday evening at mon
ster meeting in Superior, Senator La
Toilette testified to Woodrow Wilson's
worth as Progressive. His tribute
was thoroughly pleasing to an appre-
ciative audience.
While Senator La Toilette was ex-
tolling Governor Wilson, Mr.. Bryan
and Governor Wilson have been tell
ing huge Democratic audiences that
the senator is standing up straight
At Indianapolis recently, Colonel
Bryan said:
Where was Mr.. Roosevelt nine
months ago? He was sitting silent
and sullen In his tent, while brave
Bob La Toilette was trying to rescue
the Republican party from the grasp
of William Howard Taft. Backed by
the Progressives. Mr.. La Toilette was
trying to redeem the Republican party
from the grip, Of the @Reactionaries.
Bob La Toilette. the prince of Pro-
gressives,. who has done hundred
| times more to make the Republican
party Progressive than your ex-Sen-
| ator Beverage has ever done-and
yet, my friends, Mr.. Roosevelt, who
| now organizes a new party to defeat
Mr.. Taft, refused to help Bob La Fol-
lette defeat Mr.. Taft for the nominal
ton. Taft is where he was nine
months ago."
Wilson's Boost a Classic.
Better still is what Governor Will
son said in his speech at Whining
ton, Del, about the Wisconsin senator.
It Is classic that is being repro
duced. In eastern papers as one Of
the finest things that has been said
In the whole campaign. These were
Governor Wilson's words:
Nov there arose up in Wisconsin
that indomitable little figure of Bob
La Toilette. I tell you, ladies and
gentlemen. doff my cap to Bob La
Toilette. He has never taken his eye
for a single moment from the goal he
set out to reach. He has walked. a
straight line t" it in spite of every
temptation to look to one side.
DO you remember that story in
the Arabian nights Of the man who
was sent on a quest to the top Of a
great mountain to bring an en-
chanted bird that was there singing
lonely in a cage, and how he was
warned that he must not heed any
voice by the wayside, that he would
find the Wayside streWn with great
stones, that every one Of these stones
was some brave traveller in quest of
that enchanted bird who had allowed
himself to be drawn aside, and had
turned back at the call of some voice
for the very stones cried out-and
just so surely as he looked aside or
turned back he himself would be
transfixed and. turned into a stone
II have sometimes though Of Sen
ator La Toilette climbing that NOM
tain Of privilege in,eqrder to take
away the only precious thing that
there was in it, namely. the rights OF
the people Of the United States, and
the stones-the Standpat stones
crying out. to him: Bob, look around
You are on the wrong journey. This
is not the way. You are betrayine
is.' = - taunted. laughed at
called back, going steadfastly on and
not allowing himself to be DETECTED
for single moment, for fear he alst
should hearken and lost all his powe,
to serve the great interests to which
he had devoted himself.
La FOllette's Great Work.
II love these lonely figures climbing
this ugly mountain of privilege. Blu
they are not lonely now. I am sorr.
for my own part that did not come
in when they were fewer. There wa,
not credit to come in when I came
in. The whole nation had awakened
All of New Jersey, at any rate, wa!
/ NJ nd YryiI1 -
try an unsophisticated schoolmaster
, because it was in search of somebod,
that did not know how to play thu
old game"
Are there still any Progressive Re.
publicans in st. Louis county who ar,
. in doubt about voting for Governor
Wilson?