The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-16
History WI Give
Teddy treat Place
Says His Opponent
After Saying That He Would Not Attack Roosevelt, Wscon-
sin Man Immediately Started on TRADE Of
Abuse Against His Opponent
Mention Of ROOseyeIts Name Brought Applause

i First, while he was talking of water
| ed stocks in the railroad sys-
TENS, with a powerful blow Of the
! hand he. tipped over chair standing
near the table in the center OF the
stage and down went the speakers
proverbial water pitcher with the
water spilling all over the floor.
That's one of the regular stunts
about this speech" he said, laughing
with the audience, ''the water gem
orally upsets just when get to talk
| Ing about the watered stocks. That
shows we are going to pour out all
the water of the corporations when
we get in power to regulate the trusts"
A little later the eminent senator in
tense and excited voice put his foot
on the electric light extension that is
attached to the lamp just over the
piano. He was endeavoring to impress
upon his audience the effect of seri-
GUS piece of structural legislation in
Wisconsin and emphatically pounded
his knee, when whack, bang, down
went the light, bulb and ALL There
were loud cheers in the audience, but
the little gaint was calm and when
order had been restored he said:
I'm doing everything can to bring
the house down and succeed WILL"
Rowe Heard First.
Prior to his entrance on the stage
at the operahouse Gilbert E. Rowe
of New York, former law partner of
Senator LaFollette at Madison, dis-
cussed some of the important isues
at stake during the present campaign.
Mr.. Rowe said that President Taft had
never before held an elective office.
that he had always been an appointee
and in the present instance he was the
appointee of President Roosevelt in
the White House and the poorest ap-i
pointment that Roosevelt had ever
made.
Colonel Roosevelt himself aclSnowl-
edged this" said Mr. Rowe, 'tnat is if
he is in earnest after reading his en-
dorsement OF the reciprocity measure
in recent number of The Outlook.
He then read little from the sem
ate Journal showing the speeches La
Toilette made against reciprocity and
how he fought against its adoption and
his stand for the American farmers.
Talked on Monopoly.
Senator LaFoIlette was introduced
to his audience by r. M. Pollock, presi-
dent of the North Dakota State Pro-
gressive Republican league. Immedi-
ately he delved right into the heart of
his subject and began an attack on
the railroad corporations.
Il think every man in this nation
realizes that something is wrong with
our country" he said. "The average
man and woman knows they are not
getting their fair share of prosperity
that should be accorded them as was
intended for everyone by those who
framed the laws and constitution of
this great government, Where we
used to get things at fair prices back
in the days of competition, a change
has now come so that you pay twice
as much for the necessaries Of life
as YOU did twelve years ago. And it
Is all the fault OF consolidation. of the
monopoly Of certain men who have
held the corporations in their grasp
with grip of iron.
In 1897 we had about 1900 inde-
pendent railroad systems In this coun-
try, and twenty years ago we had g.
600 systems. Now we have but six
systems and all controlled by eight
men. About forty years ago, or to be
more exact, thirty eight years ago,
decision Of the supreme court declared
that the government had the right to
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