Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-03-21
News Of the Week From Vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
CLOSES CAMPAIGN IN PERSON
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin En-.
Iivens Presidential Contest
Before the Primary.

United States Senator Robert M. La
Toilette of Wisconsin, in one of two
speeches delivered at Valley City on
the eve of the presidential preference
primary, charged Theodore Roosevelt
with having passed by the greatest
opportunity ever offered a president
of the United States.
This opportunity, said Senator La
Toilette, was to send a strong, force.
full message to congress, followed by
an appeal to the people if necessary,
when combinations of capital in this
country first became alarming. 1t is
the office of the president, he said, to
urge on congress such legislation as he
believes the best public interest de.
mands.
Il do not propose to assail any man
on personal grounds, but great issues
are pending. I do not deny the right
of any man to be a candidate for any
public office, but there is one great
test to be applied to all candidates
and that is the record they have made
in the past.
mot only present promises must be
considered, but how have they kept
their promises in the past. And so it
is fair that the record of every candi.
date be secured. They should be
analysed intelligently and carefully.
"You will search Mr.. Roosevelt's
record in vain for a strong urgent
message pointing out changes passed
to afford relief to the people in the
changing economic conditions that
were multiplying the laws of supply and
demand.
ooh, what an opportunity it was for
q president and when that president
had the people of the country back OF
him and who so appealed to their i'm
agination.
Subject Slightly Touched On.
"Two or three, yes, three or four,
times the subject was slightly touched
on during those seven years; and then
only on the eve of a presidential elec-
ton he brought it to the attention of
congress; then it was decided to pass
1t on to Mr.. Taft"
In his second speech Senator La
Toilette made this declaration when
speaking of Colonel Roosevelt:
Il an no going to make any per-
sonaf attack on n man, either on
Mr.. Roosevelt or President Taft, but
this is a time when it is proper to
Judge them by their records.
IF l had been president when these
great trusts were forming, when Nc
Kinley anG Roosevelt were president,
I should have called the United States
district attorneys of the whole coun-
try to Washington and I should have
handed each n a copy of the Sher-
man antitrust law and I would have
said, go home and commit that to
memory, and come back here at the
same hour tomorrow
"Then when they came back I would
have said to them: Now you know
what this law means. Go out and do
your duty as prosecutors. If you don't
I will put you out and will put in men
who will.
Zone slight touch of the firm hand
of the government wien these great
combinations were forming would have
restrained them. Now the problem is
more serious, more complicated, but
we've got to meet it and solve it or
hand it down to our children. We can
solve it with the ballots. Perhape they
could not"
La Follette's first speech was at the
state normal school, where the au-
dience filled the assembly hall. The
second took place in the city audi
forum in the business disrtrist.