The Washington times., 1924-09-01
Ia TOILETTE IS
ALL SET FOR
SPEECH
Senator to Open Campaign in
First Ever Made Solely
to Radio Audience
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performance will be underwritten

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performance will be underwritten
by these meetings.
Foes Hope for 'Dud."
Some Of the Senator's political
enemies, while not cherishing any
personal ill.will against him, are
professionally hoping and believing
that because Of certain peculiarities
of his he win prove to be a radio
dud."
The Senator is accustomed to
start in with an audience about 8
o'clock in the evening and get II
fairly warmed up about and fairly
well into the subject by 10 and rea-
sonably enthusiastic by IL and all
ready to fight the money power to
the death along about midnight.
He also Is accustomed in the
Senate to give surveys Of the rail.
road situation with Introductory
and preparatory observations last.
ing q couple Of hours and with the
main body Of his thought coming
along only afterwards.
Must Speed Up.
This afternoon he win have to get
going and deliver his points and ar
rive at his peroration and quit in
half an hour.
Some Of his friends who are
against him politically are hoping
and believing that he cannot do it
They think that he further win be
by the fact that much
Of his influence on audiences has
depended on his emphatic and dra-
matte gestures ana on his formid.
able and arousing facial expressions.
The radio audience win not see
the gestures and the facial express.
sions which constitute so large q
part Of the personality and platform
power of La Toilette. The radio
brings La Toilette down to only his
voice. 1t is In gestures and In
facial expressions, it IL in delivery,
it Is in the arts Of the actor, that
La Toilette has his platform ad-
vantage over Coolidge and Davis.
In voice, il he has any advantage
over them, it will be small one.
From this standpoint La Toilette
can be regarded as the radios first
political victim. II people insist
upon going to meetings less than
they used to, and II they insist
upon getting their political exhor-
tation through the. ether, La Fol!
lette largely loses the advantage Of
being the best platform actor Of
the three candidates and is brought
down to a mere vocal equality with
them.
Brevity Acquired.
That consideration is in the minds
Of both La Follette's friends and
foes HIRE today, while, so far as
brevity is concerned, his friends
maintain that La Toilette will have
the problem solved.
HIS enemies are rejoicing because
they say he cannot filibuster over
the radio; but his friends who have
read his speech claim that La
Toilette in his old age has at last
been forced by the radio to learn
how to say Il and sit down.
Early today the Senator will 90
to the radio studio from which his
speech will be broadcasted AMI will
DO q practice spin with the micro
phones.
He was tardy in getting his
speech finished, He kept the
copiers Of 1t waiting. 1t was noted
again that one OF the oddities in
his temperament is that when he
talks he talks fireworks, but when
he is preparing the fireworks for
his talk he putters and changes
and reviseS as IL he were prepar.
ing an article for an encyclopedia.
Carefully Deliberated.
All the pin.wheels and rockets
in his speeches are carefully DELHI
Grated. They are not vagrant i'm.
pulses. They are calculated poll.
clAs. He writes them out in pen.
ell. He revisinEiy dictates them TO
q stenographer. He changes them
and dictates them again. He reads
them to his advisers. He re-dic.
tates them. An observer Of him
remarked today:
HE may shoot wild but he never
goes Off half.cocked. II he shoots
wild he does II absolutely inten.
tionally and after perfect study
Of the cartridge and the target"
In other words, by a charming
paradox, the widest Of, the candi.
dates In so-called radical proposals
Is at the same time the most
cautious and laborious Of them in
preparing the words giving expires.
siOn to his witness.
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