Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-23
INCLUDES SUPREME COURT
Refers to Usmpation of Legislative
Functions in New York Speech.
PRAISED BY CLIFFORD PINCHoT
Leader of Conservation Movement
Introduces Progressive Candidate
for Presidential Nomination,

NEW YORK, January Ex-senator Rob-
ert Marion La Toilette OF Wisconsin made
his bow last night to New York as the
presidential candidate The vast audito-
rum of Carnegie Hall was unable TO hold
the mass of people who came 10 listen
to him. and when he learned that a
large number Of people had to be refused
admttance he left the hall and addressed
the six or seven hundred who we're
gathered in Fifty-scventh street using
the chaufreur's seat Of an automobile
as his rostrum.
The overflow meeting caused some de-,
lay. and it was after . O'Clock when
Senator La Toilette was introduced from
the platform of Carnegie Hail by Clifford
Pinchot. He was received with hearty
applause and his long speech was fire.
auently interrupted by applause and
cries of approval
Explaining the platform of the progress
ives and declaring it the.one with which
he WAS in fullest accord, Senator La
Toilette said that he was for the recall
extended TO the judiciary and for woman
suffrage. lie had described the recall
as applied to all elected officials and had
paused when voice in the auditorium
rang. out: How about judges?
xNCdoOA G4lOu&A lOI 1ecCdll.
Il was just waiting for you to say
that, was the SENATOR'S answer. II am
in favor of extending the recall to the
judiciary. l don't defy the bench. and
when court forgets that it's function is
to administer laws as written by the leg
islative department and goes into legis-
lating. there's enough reason to apply the
recall
II am not going to say anything here
and veil it. i mean the Supreme Court
of the United States. which undertook to
put words into the Sherman act which the
legislators who passed il never intended
to have there.
II am for restricted and safeguarded
recall Of the judiciary. You deny to the
people of this country this right, and you
confirm their suspicious against the judi
CARY
For the occasion of his first appear
ance before a New York audience Mr.. La
Toilette said he had been admonished
that the audience would be gathered for
the most part from curiosity, and when a
man called out that it meant business the
senator said he meant business. too, and
that he had come to talk about the coun-
try.
Need for Progressive Measures.
Starting from the premise that he was
regarded as a very dangerous man ana
that his own testimony might be ques-
toned, he quoted various authorities to
show the decline of true democracy in
this country and the need for the re-
medal measures advocated by the pro-
gressives. He first quoted from De
Tocqueville's work, in which the writer
said seventy years ago that he had never
found a man in the United States using
wealth to corrupt his fellow-men.
He then turned to Bryce's American
Commonwealth" published fifty years
later, in which the great corporations
were described as being everywhere the
bane of state politics as we'll as actively
engaged in lobbying at Washington. JUS
tice Brewer and Justice Brown, both OF
the Supreme Court, were quoted by Sen
ator La Toilette as having pointed out
In public speeches in 1904 and 1905 the
corrupting influence of corporations upon
legislative bodies.
The senator said he would not be
afraid of the corruptive influence of the
wealth of the whole country if it We're
not insidious, but would march in the
open with it's banner flying.
I'VE have permitted this thing to come
into this generation of ours. and are we
going to leave it to the coming genera