The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-03
LA TOILETTE
 IS UNDER BAN OF VIGILANTES

Forty American authors have writ ten to the United States Senate pro- testing against the continued mem- bership in that body of Senator La Toilette. A petition to Vice Presi- dent Marshall from the Vigilantes ac- companies the letters. It cites the or ganization's impatience at the delay in the investigation of La Follette's | conduct and expresses the conviction that "not a seditious utterance of | Senator La Toilette has been allowed to lie fal1ow.'
 "All the un-American publications still allowed to continue their insidi- ous propaganda find him a wealth of that treason they no longer dare to | express from their own pens," the | petition says. ''They clearly convey to their readers that there can be no real danger in defiance of the will of the country so long as La Toilette is | permitted to enjoy the honors, the emoluments and the privileges of membership in the highest council of 1 the nation."
 of the authors are:
 l NeOL5G w. SdpkS--IAA HOAclCS AIdS l turned to license his right of free speech as a citizen and his inmuni- ties as a Senator He has counte- 1 nanced the atrocious policies of for ] eign foes with whom we are at war 1 Wallace Irwin-f God will save us | from the fate of a misguided Russia coaxed to ruin by Pottsdam wolves 1T l pacifist clothing, we must begin now 1 by silencing our sweet-voiced enemies
 at home What use to cry Hans him. against a German fanatic witt
 a bomb when a Senator Of the United States endangers our national beinG
 with ideas more destructive than { million bombs could be?
 Meredith Nicholson-The federation in our highest Iawmaking body of ;
 man who speaks the Berlin language
 is an insult to every American soldier
 and sailor and to every loyal Ameri
 can citizen at home.
 Ethel Watts Mumford-My interest
 as a writer have carried me int
 many places and among all classe
 and have had personal experience
 of the effect of his seditions.
 Porter Emerson Browne-What ex
 cuse can the American Nation offe;
 to the heart-broken father, to tn,
 weeping mother, of the American
 soldier, who has made that Nation
 the supreme sacrifice, when, at tn
 same time, it tolerates within it's cap ital at Washington so frank, so mag
 nificent a seditionist as the Hon. (Got help us!) Robert M. La Toilette? GeIett Burgess-By his pernieiou example he has encouraged others openly hostile and dangerous, to per
 sist in the attempt to nuIlify our na tional effort.
 Amelia Josephine Burr-If one unable to cooperate with the govern
 ment in time of crisis, it seems to m at least that it is his duty to relfn quish his associations with the gov ernment.
 , Theodesia Garrison-By his expul
 sion or suspension from the Senat the work of preparedness would
 speeded, and others of his opinio :, would be discouraged from attempt ing to spread sedition.
 Rupert Hughes - La Toilette nc S only rocks the boat, but he denounce , the oarsmen, he islanders the bosr l. he bores holes in the bottom of tn = boat. And the storm is at it's neigh
 Augustus Thomas-In & semewha . similar situation raised by Vallandig . hams opposition to President Lir
 coln's war policies, MT. Lincol wrote: Must I shoot a poor bo who deserts from the army, and mus = I not touch a hair of the head of tn h wiley agitator who persuaded him t T desert 9"
 [. Emerson Hough-He ought to b - thrown out, so that we could go abeJ n our business of winning the war. $ Edward Hungerferd- feel tfs
 situations such as this of La Follett a which have direct bearing upon oo ,f conduct of the war, should have fir
 and most immediate attention in tn - national crisis
 / Harrison Rhedes-He wastes tin
 and should be got rid of.