The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-17
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it could have been made potential in
deterring trust orgdnization-I think
that the mar who was president Their
is not the man to find the way out
now"
Then turning to Senator Stone. SEN
ator LaFollette bowed and inquired:
Does that answer the senator from
Missouri"
THAT does fairly WE'LL" responded
Senator Stone, dryly, and the laughter
of the senate.
Senator Pomerene inquired if Sem
ator LaFollette would tell how many
of the 10000 trusts were good" ones
and how many of them bad"
II have no way to differentiated" re-
turned Senator LaFollette. "because
none of the trusts are my friends. If
any of them We're supporting my
propaganda with large contributions.
1 suppose 1 would be human enough
to call them good trusts They know
about the Wisconsin system. and they
know it is the real panacea for their
business.
so L have no George w. Perkins
and no Munsey supporting me. 1t is
a lone. practically sin%gle-handed fight
L have been waging for twenty-five
Years. and. Mr.. President, 1 am going
to keep on until the bell rings and
the curtain falls"
Senator LaFollette's outburst came
without warning to the senate. He
arose to make an analysis of the pres
dents veto message on the wool bill.
but had spoken scarcely a dozen
words when the break anne AS his
eyes roved around the chamber he
saw that many republican senator's
t1nI 1nff fh@s~ ho< r- H. -
speak. n with a bitter smile he
turned to the president of the senate.
II note the fact" he said, that on
the republican side there are just
fourteen senators present. I am con-
strained to speculate a bit about this.
l am impelled to question whether
that condition may not be a sort of
prophesy of what is to come.
Senator LaFollette then remarked
that he remembered the first time
he addressed the senate and prac-
tically every seat on the republican
side was vacated as a rebuke to him
for ~presun,ing to know anything
about legislation"
II prophesied that when the people
came to understand the sort of serv-
ice they We're getting those seats
would be permanently vacated. Since.
there have been some thirty of those
seats vacated. I don't believe that the
public of this country is going to find
any measure of relief from that con-
dition by wandering off into unexplor-
ed fields under the guidance of a pilot
who exercised q very supreme control
while we were getting into exactly
the same condition the country is in
now.
II believe the redemption Of repre-
sentative government in this country
will be accomplished by the republic
can party"
AS Senator LaFollette continued he
grew more arrest Several times he
realized that he hal forgotten the
original purpos Of his speech and
interrupted himself.
Go on; go on" urged Senator Will
liam Alden Smith, who sat near him.
II didn't intend to make this sort
Of a speech vow I didn't" said
Senator LaFollette. But I would
like to go on I'm just seething with
it. I intend to go on in two or three
weeks might and day. I am W go
ing to stop until the republicans in
the house and senate and each Of the
legislatures are truly progressive. I
am going to keep the fight in the re-
publican party. I think that it is the
best instrument through which to
progress. Now, when 1t is the pur-
pose to make the republican party
respond to the purposes for which it
was horn. an attempt is made at Chi
cage to divert it. 1t would not sue
coed. It will only disturb the surface
of things a little. The republican
party was born to make all men equal
and that is all that lies back of the
movement of true progressiveness."