Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-10-17
OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 1924
The La Toilette Meeting
A Well Filled House Listens to Fine
Speeches Friday Evening

The attendance at the High School
auditorium Friday night at the La
Toilette meeting while not what it
should have been, was the largestsyet
assembled at any political gathering
in Newark during the campaign, and
those who were present enjoyed one
of the finest addresses delivered in
the city for many a day.
Harry Cochran, president of the La
Toilette for President Club, presided
and introduced Peter Witt, of Cleve-
land. Mr.. Witt is a speaker of mark
ed ability, and is heart and soul for
the success of Senator La Toilette,
and for the many and lasting bene-
fits which will follow his election.
For upwards of two hours this elo-
quent orator held the close attention
of his hearers while he showed up the
true inwardness of the two old
parties, how they were governed and
controlled by the big business and
great financial powers of the country,
and quoted facts and figures to prove
the truth OF his statements.
His speech was replete with strik-
ing original statements, such as:
"If this government is ever de-
stroyed it will not be by the men in
rags, but by the gentlemen in broad
cloth, as was attempted by the aristo-
cratic slave-owners of the south in
1861"
"Fifty per cent of the people don't
vote. Are they any worse off than
those who do? They don't expect
anything, and those who do vote get
what they don't want"
"You think laws are made in Wash
ington. They are not-they are made
by the gang in New York-the fell
lows in Washington merely pass
them. Same way in Ohio, where laws
were made in the Neil House, not in
the State House across the street"
"The gang in Washington is always
ready to sell out, and while they were
at the Teapot Dome deal would prob
ably have disposed of the very dome
of the Capitol itself if Robert M. La
Toilette had not stepped in and called
a halt"
"They call La Toilette an obstruc-
ZIONIST! Thank God he has the deter
mination and ability to place unsur-
mountable Instructions in the paths
of some of the grafters and unhung
scoundrels who would rob the nation
from right to left"
The speaker next touched on gov
ernment ownership, government by
injunction and drafting men in cases
of invasion only, as advocated by La
Toilette. Four million Of the flower
of the United States were drafted
during the late world war, most of
them sent overseas, where hundreds
of thousands of them perished, just
because the Morgan crowd had bet on
the allies and it looked like they were
about to lose out, and the Morgan
interest must be looked after.
La Toilette, who opposed the war,
was charged by his enemies as being
pro-German, and they went after
him tooth and nail to cruelty him.
His speech on the question was mis-
quoted, words being added or left out
to suit their nefarious purposes. But
they utterly failed in their scheme.
He went back home after his trial
and was reelected by 225,000 major
ity.
A little time was devoted to the
two other Presidential candidates.
either of which was o. X. with the
Wall street gang-each perfectly safe
to leave standing at the post of priv
iIege without hitching, no matter how
loud the band would play