The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-03-03
Wisconsin Assembly Will
Dcnouncc Him Within 48
Hours. Leaders Say.
IN LINE WITH SENATE
Only an accident Prevented
Chamber From Indicting
Him Yesterday.
HALTED Bl PROCEDURE
state Senator WilcOy's MOees
Defeat Tricks Of "Battlin|
BOb'S" Men.
IN LINE WITH SENATE
HALTED By PROCEDURE

MADISON, Wis, March 2.--Robcrt ".
"a Toilette is making his last fght in
inc state which suffers agonies Of shame
IN hie account. Within forty eight
.ogrs the Wisconsin Legislature, its
leaders promise. will denource him to the
,a,ion as seditionist, even as the State
senate branded him IL few days ago.
only an accident saved him from the
,rovn!ng disgrace Of an indictment to-
day by the legislators nearest tho peo-
PIE. \ majority OF the Axembly-good.
Loyal men sick at heart over La Follet-
ss,n and bitterly angry because La Fol-
l-:ias prussian.sm has made the whole
StAts seem disloyal---were eager to name
I'M as an enemy Of the nation, bu. rules
q. procedure checked their earnestness
For some days since La Toilette was
scored as traitor by Republican State
senator's the Assembly has been under
The call Of the house." a gentlcmen's
agreement keeping seventy members
II attendance while the Sergeant-at-
Arms labored to bring absent members to
the Capitol. 1t is necessary to have fif-
,y.ore votes. a bare majority OF the
whole Assembly. TO break the call ana
Lear the way 10 a vote on the same res
o.u,ion which the State Senate put
through.
Rebuke seems Certain.
The loyalists just failed TO get the fif-
'y-one necessary. The final test vote
on breaking the CALL not on the sedi
non resolution) was IS to IS, Just before
tne Assembly adjourned until 10 y. NJ.
49,
Ies breaks tho call and abrogates the
-entlenens agreement automatically.
en-. when nearly full chamber goes to
work on Monday the loyalists are cer
.ain Of enough votes to administer to
La Toilette the Identical rebuke which
tie state Senate gave him earlier in the
week
Bu, II will be more than a rebuke. II
viii Re reputation Of character un-
paraeled In American history. It will
he the most humiliating denunciation
mat this one time idol ever received. II
vii, he the tolling OF bells for his politi-
al career for neither La Follettes pres
,ge nor the prestige of any man backed
~ him can stand a blow so severe. He
WI continue to write "of Wisconsin"
rftsr his name as a United States Sena-
'o:, hut he will no more represent Wis
cOnsin than does the German Chancellor
.''ready there is spreading over the
safe the terrific prophecy which has
.-tn made by Senator j. Henry Bennett
= N'roQua, and there is not one man
NJ vision IN Wisconsin who doubts the
truth OF It:
la Toilette ie today rejected from
We society Of all decent men. When
he final history is written it will be
slid IL substance that he retired 20 hla
sona al Madison, disgraced and for
.orn. and | apprehend that none will
PAUSE, as dogs are wont 10 do. as they
pass his detected figure"
The thunders OF silence sin
IS 'eservng for La Toilette that terrible
punishment which an American writer
imagined not so long ago for IA states
nan whose n-American!sm snelled
ts rta,y as La Follette's.
beginning of the End.
T Indictment by the Wisconsin
'.ss stature, parity completed and wholly
% be finished next Monday. for the
nlt-'l states Senator whose words and
"eNf, lave been so amazing as to cause
'en % think of his singular and RAM
ming utterances AT a publishers dinner
~ rhi!alelph IA Il few years ago. Is the
Nes.nnng OF the end for La Toilette,
-" IA Toilette OF stupendous vanity,
nnbr.dled ambition and s!nuous oppor-
'lrism
The LEGISLATURE is not acting in po-
teal pettiness. Its majority, sixty or
T'H'hve Of 100, are shamed men com
" 70 Madison from a shameh peopl"
For l"sr and more, but especially since
'to United states took its stand with
ne free and decent nations. Wisconsin
las realized that she is An outcast in
the s.s,erhood OF the Union. She has
ca,AHd that the East. the West and
Ne Sou'l. all o. these ribrantly pa
'- o'.a secr!ons. look upon her as dis
'ors'-a thing TO turn their backs upon
Her business men have felt the sting
* injustice OF this estimate. but the!
r"n, about literally hanging their heads
'e"aGse there was no explanation they
'oHd make as long s La Toilette wen
Hr-sbukcd by MS own State
IT'S lannablA :" said William n. Cur
,, manufacturer Of Madson-an eN
| Nayo~ Il the cty--iast night. II hav'
b.Ieh with shame every time ] r.
aa.y from THO State People think Is
folierte IS Wisconsin. Our loyal decd
and We have good record In volun
',ry enis,ments. in the Liberty loan. II
ne Red cross campaigns and In othe
va a3tivities-count for nothing,
WIN BRAND La Toilette.
"a Toilette sedition blots out every
'A!ng He has made our State look lik
Vest Prussia. That's got to end and
VII end We will brand La Toilette 10
"aat he is, a German sympathizer VIII
nab' our soldiers IN the back. We vii
eject loyal United States Senator +
succeed the late Paul HustinR. La Fol
'site il done for and II he keeps goin
'he way he has he will swing from
tee"
Hard words but one hears them o
every side. WISCONSIN has reached tn