The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-17
WAKES Up SENATE
BY BITTER ATTACK
La Toilette Assails Attitude
He Says Ex-President
Showed to Trust.


a spontaneous outburst during debate
of the presidents wool tariff vote in
the senate, Senator La Toilette yester-
day attacked the new Progressive par
ty, and swore new allegiance TO pro-
gressive Republicanism.
Ignoring the dramatic appeal by
Senator La Toilette TO repass the wool
bill the regular Republicans and some
Progressives voted TO uphold the pres
ident's veto. Six Progressive Repub-
licans-Bristow. Clapp, Crawford, La
Toilette. Poindexter and Works-join-
ed the Democrats in support of the
motion. Cummins. Kenyon and Borah
supported the veto.
Earlier in the afternoon the senate
in a similar move to pass the steel
tariff bill over the presidential disap-
prevail was defeated by a vote of 80
to 80, the division being on strict par
ty lines.
The Original insurgent." quivering
with emotion, with clenched hands
and strained face. poured out a flood
of impassioned oratory that kept the
floor and galleries of the senate rapt
and silent.
Standing in the we'll Of the chamber,
Senator La Toilette assured his asso-
ciates that he intended to keep up the
fight in the Republican party to make
that party really progressive" and to
keep on until the last bell rings and
the curtain falls"
After reviewing briefly the trust
record of Colonel Roosevelt, Senator
La Toilette declared that the former
president was mot the man to find
the way out now" He asserted that
mo obstacle dragged across the path
of the progressive movement in the
Republican party can now stop its
advance"
He declared that when the Republi-
can party. through it's progressive as
sociates, had reached a point where
! it would respond to the purposes for
which 1t was born, an attempt is made
at Chicago to divert it,"
Senator Stone asked Mr.. La Toilette
whether he meant the nomination of
President or the nomination OF ex-
President Roosevelt.
Il am awfully surprised" began Sem
ator La Toilette, that left the sena-
tor from Missouri in doubt. l hope
l did not leave doubt in the mind of
anyone else"
Then moving down the center aisle.
until his outstretched. shaking hands
almost touched the stenographers'
tables, he continued:
ION the day that Theodore Roose-
welt was made president of the Unit
ed States there were 149 trusts and
combinations in the United States.
/ When he turned this government over
to William Howard Taft there were
10000 plants in combination. When
he became president the trusts had
an aggregate capitalization OF $1,000
/ 600, 900 and when he left the presiden-
cy they had an aggregate capitaliza-
ton of s31, 900, 900, 600 and more than
! 20 per cent of ii was water.
Their power has gone on growing
and spreading. There has been no
diminution in the present administra-
/ ton. The present administration has
sought TO apply the Sherman anti
trust law more vigorously than its
predecessor: but the time TO have sp-
piled the Sherman antitrust law eff
fectively was in the infancy of these
! trusts, when there were only 149
II 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 his
/ tory of the Sherman antitrust law II
could have been made potential in
lettering trust organization-I do not
think that the man who was president
then is the man 10 find the way out
now"
! Senator Pomerene inquired il Sena-
tor La Toilette would tell how many
of the 10000 trusts were good" ones
and how many of them bad"
/ Il have no way to differentiate," re-
turned Senator LaFoIlette. because
none of the trusts are my friends. II
any of them were supporting my prop
uganda with large contributions | sup
pose I would be human enough to
call them good trusts They know
about the Wisconsin system and they
know it is the real dope for their
business.
SO / have no George w Perkins
and no Munsey supporting me. II is
lone, practically single handed fight
/ have been waging for twenty-five
years, and Mr. President. I am going
to keep on until the bell rings and the
curtain falls"