The Washington herald., 1912-09-07
TEDDY JUMPS
ON Ia Toilette
Colonel, Invades North Dakota and
Sharply Raps His Arch
Enemy.
TAKES SLAP AT GOV. WILSON

! Fargo. n. Oak, Sept. 6.-Blazing a trail
through this ultra Progressive State, Col
Roosevelt to-day raped his arch enemy,
Senator La Toilette. over the knuckles.
The Progressive Senator bitterly has OPP
posed the Roosevelt candidacy through
the West, and is just now trying to up
set the third party scheme in North
Dakota. Roosevelt challenged the SEN
ator. without calling him by name, to
either get in line with the Progressive
party or consider himself stamped as a
deep-dyed ally of the reactionaries Erst-
while La Toilette sympathizers cheered
the colonel Justify as he pounded their
idol of yesteryear.
The former President began his attack
upon La Toilette at Grand Forks early
in the day. when he called the Senator
names before string of 1.5o0 Bull
Moosers in the auditorium. He put the
finishing touch on 1t this afternoon when
he appeared before the third party con-
vention in this city
Roosevelt went back to the days of the
civil war in his denunciation OF La Fol-
lette here to impress his point on the
bowling convention audience.
Warns PopuIace.
Earlier in the day the colonel warned
the Grand Forks Progressives mot to be
misled by false leadership"
Neither of the old parties is capable
Of graphing with the great issues of the
day." he declared. Each is boss ridden:
each is privilege-controlled."
The La Toilette opposition TO the third
party cause in North Dakota looms up
before the colonel like a DOGGY man.
Senator Gronna. an ardent La Toilette
adherent. is leading the fight for the Taft
forces. The Senator has a strong follow
Ing, and with the combined strength of
La Toilette, the third party opponents
are trying to keep back the tide of
Roosevelt sentiment. Not a few of La
Follette's former supporters, on the other
hand. have Topped to the Roosevelt
camp.
The Republicans. with L. B. Hanna up
as the nominee for Governor, are pre-
dieting that they will carry North Da-
kota on the State ticket. and La Toilette
is hoping that Taft will beat Roosevelt
In the meantime the Democrats are grin
ming over the prospects of sweeping into
office through the divided Republican
ranks
Attacks Wilson.
Roosevelt went after Wilson again to-
day. He lambasted the Democratic can
didate for what the colonel considers
Wilson's equivocation OF the Democratic
platform. and criticised the Governors
stand against the Federal industrial COM
mission. which in the Progressive party
platform assumes to solve the problem
dealing with the whole Industrial stu
alton.
Roosevelt's swing through the State
where twenty-five years ago he was a
was marked by extreme cor
diality upon the part OF the Dakotans.
but they failed to go into ecstasies. At
Grand Forks all the townspeople tried to
get into the auditorium. Here a multi
tude on the streets yelled for Roosevelt.
and the Progressive party convention
burst into lusty cheers. Old plainsmen
who knew Roosevelt on the ranch shook |
hands with him at the train and swore |
allegiance to any party he might get
Up.
The colonel departed from hero at |
iusk. Tomorrow he stumps Montana