The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-06

sure MS speaking In flcnmO00.
Secretary A. Bavis of the Hoosier
State Progressive league this noon re-
ceived telegram from Medill McCor-
mick. the progressive owner OF the
Chicago Tribune. who Is travelling with
La Toilette. just before the reception
committee of the progressives left for
Indianapolis to meet La Toilette. This
telegram announced the schedule OF
the La Toilette party. .-.'
Walter Clyde Jones, progressive
candidate for governor In Illinois. 10
accompanying Senator La Toilette.
and will probably make 4 few remarks
before the senator speaks.
The committee In charge of the
meeting has besn particularly intsrsst-
ed in the weather bnrGau. quite -
much - n the telegram from the pro
gressives. They are determined that
the Coliseum shall be comfortabae to-
night and have kept members Of the
league in the hall all day watching the
thermometer
10 Heated by Steam.
The building is heated by steam,
and last night the steam had to bo
turned off in order to make 1t comfor-
tably cool for the spectators of the
basket ball game
The extreme cold will probably keep
away many farmers who had planned
to come, and who have been commu-
nicating with the committee-but 1t
won't keep them all away az several
telephone messages have come in
from outlying parts of the county to-
day saying, I'm be there! ! certainly
want to hear that man La Toilette"
Whether the exchange of warmer
temperature with snow is better than
a cold temperature without 1t 10 hard
to estimate
Cold Makes No Difference.
much difference to one farmer who 10
coming from the southern boundary Of
Preble county. who has to drive six
miles and a half before he can catch
a train to bring him thirty miles.
1t is rumored that some Of the men
prominent in Republican affairs at the
state capital will meet La Toilette in
Indianapolis and perhaps come over
some of them incognito, wishing to sec
the state of progressive feeling in
Richmond. The meeting promises to
be somewhat of novelty in that 1t
has been handled by men who have
hitherto been forced into the back
seats In party affairs, and expected to
hold their hands until election day.
No Music But Hest.
Il guess the shop fellows can get
along without any band tonight, since
they are paying the expenses of the
meeting themselves. and since We
know where the money for a good
many bands has come from. And II
there isn't any speaking but La Fol-
lette why he's the man they want to
hear" was the way that one commit
tSCAdu cApkCO0SU 0Ao 1OE0 Oh tue 8Fs
rangements.
I'VE may not have any music but
We are certainly going to have It warm
and heat goes . lot farther than mu-
sic this kind of weather.
The meeting Of the committee last
night developed the belief that people
in Richmond are going to act some
what as they did in the Ohio towns,
where the weather was against In Fol-
lette. In Toledo there were thousands
of people turned away In the bitter
cold which swept OF the lake
John Dfetx, A. Bayis, J. A. Reid and
D. r. MikeseI left at noon to meet Ii
Toilette In Indianapolis. and will havo
charge OF him until he leaves tonight.
They will try to provide chance for
the progressives here to meet Senator
La Toilette and his party immediately
following the speech. ~ has bean done
in other places, where men have hs-
come enthusiastic over him This WIN
be done II - Toilette u MT TO -
hausted after his attack Of ptnsa1ne
poisoning and his fall, IN whie ~ M
jured his leg alighting from ~ 1af
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