The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-09-12

They have read IN the daily press 0ilS'O
La Toilette committed the monstrous
offense of being disloyal to his coun7 a
try while it was engaged IN the WorIu 9
War.
Had there been the slightest found
alton for the charge American TABOR
would not be supporting La Toilette
On the contrary, it would be condemn 7
ing him and uniting with ether good ]
citizens to drive him from public me-
But La Toilette was not dislOyal. IN j
stead, he was one of the most loyal
courageous patriots in public lie dur
ing the trying period which followed
the entry of this country into Che
World War in April, 1917.
Facts Taken from Record
He dared to demand that the war
be financed by tax on war proIlts
instead of by the issuance OF bonds
That was his unpardcnable OHense:
For that he became a marked man,
bounded by all the organs OF Prlvl-
lege.
The facts are in the official records
of the Senate of the United States
where any citizen who will take the
troubel may see them for himself.
The charge of disloyalty against
LaFollette was first made after a |
speech which he delivered in st. Paul
on September 20, 1917, five months al
ter this country had entered the war. /
: This was the preteXt on which Big
Business launched its attack.
The Associated Press report OF this
speech quoted the Senator as having
said:
Germany"
This was the sentence which was
played up in every daily newspaper
4 in the United States as evidence OF
: La Follette's treason.
= 1t was a lie.
= What La Toilette said, was:
owe had grievances against Ger
. many"
4, The word mo" was inserted by the
Y Associated Press correspondent In st.
7 Paul.
:. ASSOCIATED PRESS APOLOGIES
i Eight months after La Toilette had
/ delivered the St. Paul speech, the As
e ISOLATED Press was compelled to pub
d licly apologize.
In a letter addressed to Senator At
- lee POmerene of Ohio, chairman Of the
IS Senate committee appointed to inves-
tigate the charges against La Fol
# lette Frederick Roy Martin, assistant
general manager cf the Associated
- Press, said:
le '"The quoted matter was not read
Id as carefully as it should have been.
ne For otherwise the conflicting word
mo- would have been seen. The st.
- Paul Pioneer Press, from which our
nt story was taken, quoted Senator La
Toilette as saying: We had griev-
ances.'
1--WE can not account for the dis
parity in any other way than stated.
'SThe error is regrettable and the
Associated Press seizes the first Op-
pOrtunity to do justice to Senator La
Toilette"
n This explanation and apology was
n sent bv the Associated Press to ever!
- daily newspaper in this country. The
majority refused to print it. The pa
A. pers which did print it buried it il
A some obscure corner where readers
were not likely to see it.
SENATE INDICATES LA FOL
LETTE
~ On December 2, 1913, almost L
~ ~ months after La Toilette had delivered
u his St. Paul speech, Senator Dilling
ham of Vermont, a standpatter, pre-
~ scented the report of the majority o
ole the Senate committee cn privilege
- and elections and asked the Senate t
adopt the following resolution:
"ResOlved, that the resolution o
olo the Minnesota commission of. publ
'vo safety. petitiOning the Senate of tn
'ad United States to institute proceeding
For looking to the expulsion of Robert N
nc La Toilette from the Senate becaus
no of a speech delivered by him in s
Of Paul, Minnesota, on September z
not 1917, be, and the same hereby arr
Drd dismissed for the reason that Il
to speech in question does not justif
vas any action by the Senate"
The resolution was agreed to by ;
the yeas and 21 nays.
Of An Interesting Roll Call
,di- Among those who voted to Wind
- cate La Toilette were Kellogg of Mil
p nesota, who had fathered the Origin
the al charge: Lenroot of Wisconsin, pro-
ABLY the bitterest enemy La Toilet
has in public life; Cummins Of low
Weeks of Massachusetts,, now Seer
,es+ tarv of War in Coohdge's cabine
me Lodge of Massachusetts, leader of Il
,1o Old Guard; Moses of New HanpShlI
now chairman of the Republican II
- tional senatorial committee, al
Wadsworth of New York.
On the Progressive side it was su
ported by Borah of Idaho, Kenyon
Iowa, Ashurst Of Arizona, Norris
Nebraska, johnson of California a
many others
After giving La Toilette this swee
ing vindication, the Senate proceed
to adopt a resolution reimbursing t
Wisconsin Senator on account Of t
expense he had been compelled to
cur in preparing his reply to
charges against him.
This resolution was passed withC
a dissenting vote.