The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-16
Continued From rage one.

E1EEN- 49, ~ HEfE
regulate the services OF the public car
riers and that it was It's duty 80 to do.
No law today on our statute books Is
in conformity with that decision
Jumped on standpatters.
Turning around to Chairman Poll
lock, Senator LaFollette asked, "you
have some s-etandpatters here?" And
there was general daughter in the aud
fence.
Possibly" answered Mr.. Pollock.
They're all gone" called someone
from the gallery.
WELL continued the speaker, you
realize you're in wrong. you stand
patters, and / take it from the way in
which some of you in my audience sit
with folded arms, that there are some
standpatters here. Now many OF you
are leading business men. men who
have amassed wealth and who are
stockholders in large corporations.
you are holding back because you
are in the wrong. and perhaps you
don't realize 1t. 1t isn't because you
mean. to be wrong perhaps, but It's
because you got in wrong. Now If
you will listen to me today and not
consider me irrational / think ! will
convince you I'm right and you go
home and think it out and give your
conscience a fair hearing.
why when 1 first came out for
governor the people were told l was
dangerous M that it would be un-
safe to entrust me with the reins Of
the government. Look at me, I'm not
dangerous. My enemies will tell you
that down in Wisconsin I've had my
laughed al me once. but the cause for
which / have fought t~riumphed"
Attacked Roosevelt on Trusts.
The senator then began an attack
On Colonel Roosevelt on his attitude
toward the trusts when he was presi-
dent. He declared that when Presi-
dent Mckinley was assassinated in
1901 the capitalization of the cor
porations of this country amounted to
something like $7,400,000, 600, and that
when Roosevelt left office, seven and
a half years later. the capitalization
of American trusts amounted to $31,-
900, 600, 900.
mo ringing message went from the
White House to the capitol to wage a
war with those people then. The
president. took no to urge re-
forms upon the men who were then
Announced His Candidacy.
In announcing his candidacy for the
republican presidential nomination,
which he did in rather an adroit way
which brought forth a great volume
of laughter. LaFollette reviewed a
portion Of his own administration as
governor Of Wisconsin, to which Of
fee he was elected three times in sue
cession. He took up the matter of
state regulation of railroads and de-
clared that since the enactment of
his laws down there the railroad
had made more money in the badger
state than under their own manage
ment.
1--WE know" he said, "for we keep
their books for EN-. We took the best
vester trust and employed him to in
spect the books of the railroads. And
while we pay him a snug little salary
it means more money for the people
in the end.
"Since the time 1 was governor and
did so much to put through the stat
utes we now have, we had not had one
single bank failure. We have had fail
ures in the national banks, but not 8
failure in a state bank since we've
been on top. I'm offering to take the
job to regulate the national banks"
and this remark was greeted by q
great storm of applause.
."Al right" he continued, when the