The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-16
La Toilette Paid a Great Tribute
to Roosevelt Here This Morning

/ noise had subsidized, ''we'l consider thaS
settled so far as you are concerned.
Now our business failures have de-
creased one-hfth per cent
He concluded his address by making
q few remarks to the laborIng men,
| stating that it was in the education
Of the Iaboring men OF the country that
wrought the change in Wisconsin and
be looked to TO bring about q change
in national affairs and preserve the
country for the people.
The senator made an excellent i'm
preston this morning on all who
greeted him at the two colleges and
the operahouse. He is small of stat
ure, with iron gray hair that he losses
about energetically now and then
when he wants to emphasize any point
| especially, and he wears a smile that
is always pleasing and inspiring. AS
an orator it is probable even the
strictly impartial would not place him
by the side Of Mr.. Bryan, as he is more
Of the restless type, sometimes speak
ing slowly and sometimes rapidly. so
that his listeners are kept in a state
of excitement wondering just what he
is going to do next.
AZ the A. c.
At the agricultural college, Senator
LaFoIlette was introduced by Clarence
williams of the student body. The
A. G. band. under the direction of DR..
Putnam, played a number OF patriotic
airs while the senator, escorted by
President Worst and other members
of the faculty and the members of the
committee of the progressive league,
marched to the platform in the arm
DRY.
Senator LaFollette set forth the
principles of progressiyism and spoke
of the work of Williams Jennings
Bryan and how he had saved the
framed from being defeated in the
Wisconsin legislature. On taking his
seat he yielded the platform he said
TO the best representative Of his
family"
Mrs. LaFollette. who was accompan-
led to the colleges OF the morning
tour by Mrs. r. M. Pollock and Mrs.
H. M. Tucker Of Courtenay, addressed
the young women of the institution on
domestic science in Ceres hall follow
ing the senator's speech.
Crowd at Depot.
Robert Marion LaFollette was greet
ed by q large crowd at the Northern
| Pacific station this morning when he
arrived with the special party that has
been accompanying him on his trip
| over the state.
He was met at the train by a COM
mittee of progressives in this city,
composed Of Arthur w. Fowler, Tread
well Twichell, M. N. Hatcher, r. M.
Pollock and Seth D. Richardson. These
gentlemen escorted the Senator and
Mrs. LaFollette, who is with him, and
his secretary to the Gardner hotel,
where the distinguished badger made
his headquarters for the day.
They were driven at once to Fargo
college where the senator made his
address to the students. The college
chapel was thronged and Fighting Bob
raj given an ovation that has been
accorded to but few orators who have
visited this city.
Following his visit to Fargo college
Senator LaFollette and party were
driven at once to the agricultural coli
lege where he was introduced to the
student body OF that institution and
where he delivered an address that was
similar in many respects to the one
to the students of the college on the
hill, only he expatiated more, with
clever little story about William Jen-
nings Bryan and how the Nebraskan
had assisted him in getting through
certain legislation regarding the rail-
way rates In Wisconsin, which the
senator proclaimed the finest on any
set Of statute books In the world.