Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-03-08
COMPARES la Toilette
WITH AARON BURR

Declaring that. Senator R. M. La
Toilette is, in his opinion, the most
dangerous man who has arisen since
(of wisconsin, has written letter to
Gov. Chase s. Osborne of Michigan
commencing the latter's attack upon
the senator. and explaining his own
views upon the matter. The letter is
as follows:
my dear Governor: Your speech
upon La Toilette is the first spoken
utterance in a national way that
really takes hold of the subject with
anything like an analytical grasp. A
year ago last fall a published a state
ment, why We Oppose La Toilette,
in which recalled some of the things
he had done in his career which I
thought marked him as unfit for pub
lie confidence. Vastly more than
what I said then could be honestly
and fairly added more. For years
while he was struggling for public
recognition in Wisconsin I was his
friend. thought he was actuated
with a desire to serve his state more
than himself, and so stood by him
financially and in every other way
that could.
'tBut I soon discovered that he
wore a mask; that he was the most
cruel and wolfish in his disposition of
any public man ! had ever met. He
ruled his faction with a tyranny that
was amazing. Not one of his friends
must venture to oppose him in his
attacks upon other public men of the
state. He developed a fiendish hat
red for John C.. Spooner that was
past belief. This l would not justly
and We came to open disagreement.
But he had farther use for me, and
dissembled his wrath until he was
safely in Spooner's seat. The first
| thing to- startle me as to his lack of
conscience and regard for law was
ais refusal to abide by the verdict
of the primary. "A contest arose in
the Whitehall assembly district be-
tween two of his friends. Ekern and
Twesme. Ekern was his favorite.
Twesme would not retire and went
before the people Of his district. La
Toilette went into the district and
urged the voters to nominate Ekern
They refused and nominated Twesme
Then he took the stump openly and
urged bolt against Twesme and the
reputation of the primary verdict.
Repudiates the Primary.
"This the voters would not do. and
turned him down the second time
. The same thing occurred in this senta
} torial district. z. B. Beach Of White
water won the primary vote. Ls
Toilette came into the district and
urged his friends to vote for Hazel
wood, democrat, and Hardwood wal
elected. Then followed ais wolfls1
} attacks upon Stephenson, which wal
the most dastardly reputation Of
every obligation of friendship AMI
gratitude I ever heard of. But To-
Stephenson, La Toilette could never
have carried on his campaign, ant
he bled the old man to the extent o.
, tens Of thousands of dollars.
J II could not stand for such a wolf
} ish spirit, and so, as said, broke
} In order TO prevent the destruction
of the fans, they should be placed
where they will not be in line of force
of any explosion in the mine
Safety lamps and permissible O
quick.fame explosive each contribute
to safety. The keeping of electricit!
out of gaseous mines is a further wis,
precautiol.. There are a number o
other minor precautions that are i'm
portant, but all will agree that tn
first essential is adequate ventilation
An unexpected out-burst of gas from
br eaking into an old gas we'll or from
the smalled hidden reservoirs in tn,
coal itself, each contributes a DANCE
which it has been found difficult t,
provide against in many cases, bu
against which every precaution saoul'
be taken. In quite number of mine
. the danger from gas has been reduce,
by an extension of the entries far II
!. advance of ordinary working opera
, tions, and taking the gas from tn
, ing work without overloading with
the ordinary return air currents.
| "The lessons taught in the recen
, study of dust explosions are that tn
dust from practically all of the bitum
nous Goals will explode Under favor
able conditions without any gas beini
present. They have also shown tina
a small gas explosion is one of tn
easiest ways of starting a dust ex
plosion, which, if the mine is wet
will be a local explosion, from whicl
many miners may escape; or if tn
dust is dry and abundant, there will b.
a general explosion, extending to ev
cry part of the mine, and killing b!
it's own violence or it's poisonous
gases all the men in the mine.
Zone of the important lesson!
taught by certain recent mine explo
, sions is that the coal dust, while
thoroughly wet, will not explode, bu1
that with modern ventilation, ant
especially during cold weather, wei
=, coal dust often becomes dry and dan
gerous within a few hours, and that
therefore the sprinkling of coal dust
once month or once a week only
gives us safer conditions for a few
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