The Mena weekly star., 1912-01-25
NEW YORK CHEERS
 FOR LA TOILETTE
Insurgent Republican Candidate for President Draws Overflow Crowd
 Plain Talk About Supreme
 Court-PinchOt With Him

New York, Jan. 23.-The political atmosphere in the east was further charged last night by the first ap- pearance in this section of Senator LaFollette since he announced his candidacy as a progressive repub- lican' for the presidential nomina- tion. In connection with the sen- ator's coming there was political gossip to the effect that Col. Roose- welt might also appear at the Car- negie hall mass meeting which Mr. LaFollette addressed and possibly lend assistance to his "boom," but the colonel was not present. h. stead, he attended dinner of sev- eral prominent leaders in charity work at the National Arts club.
 Clifford pinchot, a close friend of ex-President Roosevelt, who has been regarded as a staunch Roose- welt lieutenant, appeared with Sen- ator LaFollette, however, and pre- sided at the meeting. He presented the senator as "a candidate I SUD- port for the Republican presiden- tial nomination"
 While the meeting was under way the crowd which sought admittance grew to such proportions that the police would not allow a further tax upon the capacity of the large hall and an overflow meeting was held in the street which the Wis consin senator addressed while those inside were listening to MT. Pinchot.
 When the senator was led to the platform inside the hall, the audi ence rose and shouted, women waved handkerchiefs and cheers were given for him as the next president of the United States"
 II have been admonished," the senator said, that I am to address an audience different from any I have addressed befcre. I am ad- monished that for the most part this audience-"
 The speaker was interrupted by a voice:
 This audience means business"
 'I, too, mean business the sen- ator said That's why ] am re- garded as a dangerous man. I be- lieve that, contrary to some ru- mors I have heard the men and women of New York do care for this republic-are interested in it's well fare.
 When the speaker mentioned the recall as one of the progressive doc- trines, a voice from the gallery shouted
 Would you recall a judge"
 q paused to have that question asked said the senator. T am al- ways ready and willing to explain my position upon every public question which have given thought. Hence I came to New York tonight to prepeare to say that I favor the recall for the judiciary" Great applause on this utteranee.
 Wow an going tp disappoint you" said the senator; q favor the recall of the judiciary but with re- strictions and reservations with which l would not surround the re- call of legislators.
 1T do not defy the bench, neither do I feel that it's inspiration is al- ways divine. When the court for gets that it's function is to con- strue the law as it is written by the legislature and usurps the func- tions of the legislature by writing words into that law, believe there is justification on that score alone for the recall of the judiciary. I will not try to veil my meaning-I mean the Supreme court of the United States. When members of that court wrote into the Sherman antitrust law the very words which congress had refused to write into that law, they went outside their functions"
 Some one called out:
 Where do you stand on the fe- male suffrage question:"
 "I believe in democracy" shout ed the senator. q believe that the women of a community have the right to express political judgment upon the questions which affect