Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-20
IN SPONTANEOUS oUT1URsT SEN
AroR DENoUNcEs ROosE-
WELT; TO STICK TO PARTY
SAYS TRUSTS GREW.
Declares "Man Who Failed to ENFORCE
Sherman Law Against Lesser
Number 10 Not One TO Rely
On Against Larger"

taflf1 veto IN Lne senate, OoAo'oI 10
Toilette late yesterday attacked the
new progressive party and swore new
allegiance to progressive republican
ism,
The "original insurgent," quiverine
with emotion, with clenched hands
and strained face, poured out FOOD
LOT impassioned oratory that kept the
floor and galleries Of the senate rapt
and silent. Standing in the well of the
chamber, Senator LaFollette assured
| his associates that he intended TO
keep UP the fight in the republican
party, to make that party really pro-
gressive" and to keep on until the
last bell rings and the curtain falls.
After reviewing briefly the trust
record OF Colonel Roosevelt, Senator
LaFollette declared that the former
president was mot the man to find the
way out now He asserted that no
obstacle dragged across the path OF
the progressive movement IN the re-
publican party can now stop Its ad-
vance" .
He declared that when the repub]i-
can party, through it's progressive ~.
sociates, had reached a point where IL
would respond to the purposes for
which it was born, an attempt is Hade
at Chicago to divert It,"
Senator Stone asked Mr.. LaFollette
whether he meant the nomination OF
President Taft or the nomination OF
ex-President Roosevelt.
II am awfully surprised began
Senator LaFollette, that I left the
senator from Missouri IN doubt hope
did not leave doubt in the mind OF
anyone else"
Then moving down the center aisle.
until his outstretched, shaking hands
almost touched the stenographers'
tables, he continued: ...
Trusts Are Multiplied.
ION the day that Theodore Roose-
welt was made president Of the United
States, there were 149 trusts and COM
binations in the United States. When
he turned this government over 20 WI.
liam Howard Taft, there were 1o,92o
plants in combination. When he be-
came president the trusts had an az
sregate capitalization Of $3.000,O00, 600
and when he LETT the presidency they
had an aggregate capitalization Of $31..
COZ, 900, 900 and more than 10 per cent
Of It was water.
"Their power has gone on growing
and spreading. There has been no
diminution in the present administ7a'
ton. The present administration has
sought to apply the Sherman antitrust
law more vigorously than its predeces-
sor; but the time to have applied the
Sherman antitrust law effectively was
in the infancy OF these trusts. when
there were only 149.
II don't believe that the man who
was president for seven years while
the greatest trust growth occurred, at
the very time of all times In the his
tory OF the Sherman antitrust law 1t
could have been made potential In
lettering trust organization--I do not
think that the man who was president
then is the man to find the way out
now"
Then turning to Senator Stone. Sen
ator LaFollette bowed and inquired:
Answers Senator Stone.
docs that answer the senator from
Missouri"
"That does fairly WELL" responded
Senator Stone dryly, amid the laughter
OF the senate.
Senator Pomerene inquired If Sen
ator LaFol1ette would tell how many
OF the 10000 trusts were good ones
and how many Of them bad"
~ have no way to differentiate," re-
turned Senator LaFollette, because
none OF the trusts are my friends. II
any OF them were supporting my pro-
paganda with large contributions
suppose I would be human enough to
call them good trusts They know
about the Wisconsin system and they
know it Is the real dope for their bust
ness.
$50 I have no George W. Perkins
and no Munsey supporting me- It is
a lone, practically single-handed fight
I have been waging for twenty-five
wears. and, Mr.. President, I am going
to keep on until the bell rings and the
curtain falls
Senator LaFollettes outburst came
without warning to the senate. He
arose to make an analysis Of the presi-
dents veto message on the wool bill,
but bad spoken scarcely dozen words
when the break came. AS his eyes
royed around the chamber he saw that
many republican senators had left
their seats as he-began to speak, and
with a bitter smile he turned to the
president of the senate:
az note the fact" he said, "that on
the republican side there are just
fourteen senators present. I am con-
strained to speculate bit about this.
am impelled to question whether that
condition may not be sort of proph-
ecv of what is to come.
Senator LaFol1ette then remarked
that he remembered the first time he
addressed the senate and practically
every seat on the republican side was
vacated as a rebuke to him "for pre-
Stunning to know anything about legis-
lation."
Expected Vacant Seats.
81 prophesied then that when the
neonle came to understand the sort Of
service they were getting those seats
would be permanently vacated. Since
then there have been some thirty Of
ho1