Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-17
Is A TRUE REPUBLICAN
"ORIGINAL INSURGENT" SWEAI,S
NEW ALLEGIANCE TO
THE PARTY.
Will keep ON FIGHTING
win Continue Untii the Last Bell
Rings and the Curtain
Falls.

WASHINGTON Aug. 16.-In pic
turesque, Spontaneous outburst during
debate Of the presidents wool tariff
veto in the senate, Senator La Fol-
lette today attacked the new progress
sive party and swore allegiance TO
progressive republicanism.
The Original insurgent," quiverng
With emotion, with clenched hands and
strained face, poured out flood OF
lmpassioned oratory that kept the
floor and galleries of the senate rapt
and silent. Standing in the well of
the chamber Senator La Toilette as
sured his associates that he intended
to keep up the fight in the repub-
lican party to make that party really
progressive" and to keep on until
the last bell rings and the curtain
falls"
After reviewing briefly the trust rec
ord of Colonel Roosevelt, Senator La
Toilette declared that the former pres
ident was mot the man to find the
way out now. he uSStTttu tHdt i1'
obstacle dragged across the path of the
progressive movement in the repub-
lican party can now stop its advance
He declared that when the repub-
lican party, through its progressive
associa tes, had reached a point where
It would respond to the purposes for
which 1t was born, an attempt Is
made at Chicago to divert it,"
Senator Stone asked Mr.. La Toilette
whether he meant the nomination OF
President Taft or the nomination of
ex-President Roosevelt.
Il am awfully surprised" began
Senator La Toilette, that | left the
senator from Missouri in doubt. l
hope / did not leave doubt in the
mind Of any one else"
Then moving down the center aisle
until his outstretched hands almost
touched the stenographers' tables, he
continued:
ION the day that Theodore Roose-
149 trusts and combinations in the
United States. When he turned this
government over to William Howard
Taft, there were 10000 plants In com
bination.
when he became president these
trusts had an aggregate capitalization
of three billion dollars, and when he
left the presidency they had an aggre-
gate of thirty-one billions. and more
than 70 per cent OF 1t was water
Their power has gone on growing
and spreading. There has been no
dimunition in the present administra-
ton. This administration has sought
to enforce the Sherman antitrust law
more vigorously than its predecessors,
but the time to have applied the Sher-
Of these trusts, when there were only
149.
II don't believe that tho man who
was president for seven years while
the greatest trust growth occurred,
at the very time Of all times in the
history Of the Sherman antitrust law
when it could have been made poten-
tial in deterrlng 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, Sem
ator Stone, Senator La Toilette bowed
and inquired:
Does that answer the senator from
Missouri"
That does fairly WELL" responded
Senator Stone. amid the laughter OF
the senate.
Senator Pomerene inquired If Sen
ator La Toilette would tell how many
of the 16,020 trusts were good" ones
and how many Of them bad" ones.
II have no way to differentiate,"
returned Senator La Toilette, "becauSe
none of the trusts are my friends. I
have no George w. Perkins and no
Munsey supporting me. 1t is I alone,
practically single handed fight, i
have been waging for twenty-five
years, and, Mr.. President, l am going
to keep on until the bell rings and the
curtain falls"
Senator La Follette's outburst came
without warning. He arose to mako
an analysis Of the presidents veto
on the wool bill, but had spoken
scarcely a dozen words when the
break came. He saw many republican
senator's had left their seats as he be-
gan to speak and with bitter smile
he turned to the president of the sem
ate:
Il note the fact" he said, that on
the republican side there are just IA