Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-08-23
La Toilette Is Loyal
To Party.

the new Progressive Republication.
The aoriginal insurgenLn quivsring
with emotion, with cienehed hands
and strained face, poured out hood
Of imprisoned oratory that kept the
Iiod, and galleries of the Senate rapt
and silent. Standing in the we'll of
the chamber, Senator La Toilette
assured his associates that he intend
cd 10 'keep up the tight in the Re-
publicah party, to make that party
rea y progressive" and to ~keep on
until the last bell rings and the cur
tain falls"
After reviewing briefly the trust
record OF Colonel Roosevelt, Senator
La Toilette declared that the former
president was snOt the man to lind
the way out nov" He asserted that
@no obstacle dragged across the path
Of the progressive movement in the
Republican party can now stop the
advance"
lie declared that when the Re-
publican party through its progress
associaters, had reached point
where ii would @respond to the pur-
poses for which it was born, an al
tempt is made at Chicago TO devert
it
Senator Stone asked Mr.. La
Toilette whether he meant the nomi-
nation Of President Taft or the noni-
nation CT ex- President Roosevelt.
81 am awfully surprised" began
Senator La Toilette, SHAT left the
Senator from Missouri in doubt. !
hope | did not leave doubt in the
mind of anyone else"
Then, moving down the center
aisle until bis outstretched, shaking
hands almost touched tbs stenogra-
piers tables, he continued:
'.On the day that Theodore Roose-
welt was made President of the
United States there were 149 trusts
and combinations in the United
States. When he turned this govern
ment over TO William Howard Taft
there were 10000 plants in combi-
nation, When he became President
these trusts had an aggregate capital
cation Of 3,000,000,0O0 and when be
left the presidency they had an ag-
gregate capitalization Of s3l, 100000
600, and more than 70 per cent. Of ii
was water.
'eTheir power has gone on growing
and spreading. There has been no
elimination in the present administra-
ton The present administration
has sought to apply the Sherman
antitrust law more vigorously than
is predecessor, but the time to have
applied the Sherman antitrust law
effectively was in the infancy ofthese
trusts, when there were only 149.
VI don't believe that the 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 Sh rman antitrust
law, it could have been made poten-
tial in lettering trust Organization
| do not think that the man who was
president then is the man to find the
way out now"
Then turning to Senator Stone,
Senator La Toilette bowed and in
quired.
4Does that answer the Senator
from Missouri?
@That does, fairly well, responded
Senator Stone, dryly, amid the
laughter Of the Senate.
Senator Pomerene inquired if
Senator La Toilette would tell how
many of the 10000 trusts we're
"good" ones and how many Of them
abad.n
81 have no way TO differentiate, :"
returned Senator La Toilette, abs-
canse none Of the trusts are my
friends. If any OF them were sup
porting my propaganda with large
contributions | suppose | would be
human enough to call them @good"
trusts. Trey know about the Wis.
consin system, and they know it is
the real dope for their business.
$50 | have no George w. Perkins
and no Munsey supporting me. 1t e
a lone, practically single handed
fight | have been waging for 25
years, Mr.. President, | am going to
on until the bell rings and the cur
tain falls
Senate La Follette's outbursts
came without warning to the Senate.
He arose 10 make an analysis of the
Presidents veto message on the wool
bill, but had spoken scarcely dozen
words when the break came. A. his
eyes roved around the chamber he
saw that many Republican senators
had left their seats as he began to
speak, and with bitter smile he
turned to the President of the Sem
ate:
q note the fact" he said, athat on
the Republican side there are just / 4
senators present 1 am constrained
to speculate bit about this. / am
to question whether that
condition may not be sort Of prop
hecy of what is to come.
a prophesied that when the
people came to understand the sort
of service they were oeffino fhosa