Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-08-21
LaFOIIette Bitterly Scores Roosevelt.

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wool and steel tariff bills. relative to
the president 8 veto, came late III the
afternoon when Senator LaFollette, in
charge of the wool conference report,
was diverted from that subject and
jumped into an eulogY Of the
principles of the president and bitter
arraignment of Col. Roosevelt. After
depicting existing conditions within
the party and the country he con-
tinued. referring to Col Roosevelt !:
II don't think the people of this
country will find relief from that con :
dition by wandering off into un-
explored fields under the guidance of
pilot WHO exercised supreme control
while we were getting exactly the
same condition that now confronts
Us. y
After detailing the record IF the
insurgents in congress and in the
states where the movement prevailed,
Mr.. LaFollette declared that the
man whose hand will open the history
of our times after we have gone will
give high praise to that little group
of men in the senate and house who
have been fighting to bring back
representative government to the
people, =
And then he added, turning
towards those insurgents who are adj
lnitted champions of Col. Roosevelt !:
Il believe the redemption of, "a
representative government in this
country will be accomplished by the
progreesives within the Republican
party, for in time we are destined 10
control that party. The progressive
movement within the Republican
party is not to be destroyed by any.
thing that may be dragged across it's
path in the nature of an obstruction
The building up Of a third party
around some person whose personal
and political abmitions have received
disappointment cannot and will not
be permitted to destroy the pro-
gressive movement within the
Republican party 1t is the mission
of the Republican party to bring
equality to all men and the Republi.
can party will survive whatever has
happened to it. -
At this point, Senator LaFollette
started to return to the more prosaic
subject Of the wool schedule when
some senator suggested that he Ego
on.
1 want to go on and" here he
hesitated for moment, then fairly
shouted - will 60 on. I'm saeth-
ing with this subject, full of it. /.
serve notice now that within two
or three weeks after we get through
here, I'll be going Oh in the campaign,
and I'm never going to stop until both
houses of congress and the executive
are progressiyes. But am fighting
for that within the party -
Senator LaFollette declared that
there was PROMISE of the whole Re-
publican party becoming progressive
in the next four years until something
happened few weeks ago at Chicago.
: 1t may disturb things, but it will
not succeed, - added Senator La.
Toilette with emphasis
Senator Stone asked, with mock
what he meant by his
reference to Chicago.
Does the senator mean the nomina- |
ton of President Taft or that of Col. |
Roosevelt?" asked Senator Stone.
I'm sorry the senator from Mis-
souri, is in doubt replied Mr.. La
Toilette. ION the day Theodore
Roosevelt was made president there
were 149 trusts and ordinations in
the United States When he turned
the government over to William i
Howard Taft, there were 10, O2O great
plants organized into combinations
The capital stock of these combins-
tions increased in that same time from
s.. 1874, 900 600 to $31, 672, 900, 900, more
than 20 per cent of which is water. |
There has been no dimunition under |
the present administration. This |
administration, however, has sought |
more vigorously to administer the
Sherman antitrust law. The time |
to have applied that remedy effective |
ly was when these trusts we're in their
infancy.
Il don't believe the man who for
seven years was president while the
greatest combinations in our history
occurred, and at a time when of all
times the Sherman law should have
been made potential and it was not
I do not believe that the man who
was president is the man to now find
for us the way out. Does that answer
the senator?
THAT does very we'll. - replied Mr..
Stone.