Evening star., 1924-10-12
SEES
PROBABLE VICTORY
Says People Are Tired of
"Decadence and Corrup"
tom of Old Parties.
BY the Associated Press.

tour with an address here tonight,
Senator Robert nj. La Toilette, in
presidential candidate.
apparently with increased
that he will win a clear
cut victory in the November election
The people of America are arous-
ed" he declared. During the last
six days ! have spoken in six states
have seen the people of New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan,
Ohio and Illinois. Everywhere it is
the same story. The people are
focking to the progressive standard.
In all my public life l have seen no
such demonstrations OF enthusiasm.
They are coming to our support
They are in revolt against the de-
cadence and corruption Of the two
old parties. But that is not the cause
OF their enthusiasm. 1t is far deeper
They see in the progressive move
ment a new hope. They find a new
spirit. They know that ii voices
their aspirations for justice, liberty
and peace.
Tide Seen Rking.
'fhe progressive tide is rising from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. 1t can
not be restrained. 1t is sweeping
over the country.
To-day the Democratic and Re-
publican candidates are defeated.
They cannot win. We can.
We are not going to throw this
election into the House of Represen-
tatives. 1t will never reach the Sen
ate. This election will be settled
like every other presidential election
in the last hundred years. 1t will be
settled by the people Of the United
states at the polls on the fourth day
OF November. On that day they will.
l am confident. elect the progressive
ticket by substantial majority"
Speaks In Armory.
The Wisconsin senator spoke tonight
in the 35th street armory, packed 10
the doors by the largest crowd he
has faced since starting on his
present trip. His speech was mainly
a summing UP of points emphasized
by him earlier in the week, and as
he directed thrusts at both the old
parties. reiterating that both are
by private monopoly"
the audience voiced its approval by
prolonged cheers.
The meeting came after the most
stirring day the candidate has spent.
Arriving early in the morning from
Cincinnati he found thousands of his
supporters awaiting him at the sta
ton. Through downtown streets he
was escorted to his campaign head
quarters behind detail of mounted
police. Following him were admirers,
afoot and in automobiles.
System Rules America.
After tracing the development of
the monopoly system in the United
States, Senator La Toilette, in his
speech declared:
Its tools are the railroads, the
banks and the trusts. Today this
system rules America. 1t declares
independent factories shall
be opened or closed. 1t determines, as
was shown in 1920, whether men who
work with their hands may organize
for their own protection. 1t dtermines
whether men shall be permitted to
work at all.
THE open shop drive from 1890 to
1922 was directed from Wall street
union movement and take from labor
the small gains it had made during
he war. In this conspiracy the finan-
cial oligarchy had at its command the
judges. II had at its serv-
ice the Department of Justice. 1t
even made use of the Army of Amer
ca, whose boys were enlisted-not to
destroy, but to preserve the liberties
Of these United States.
Power OF Bankers.
"The international bankers have
become the supreme power in this
economic oligarchy. Two hundred
and fifty thousand miles of railways,
with approximately twenty billions
Of capitalization, have passed under
the dominion OF the banking syndi-
Gates OF Wall street. The natural re-
sources of the Nation-coal, iron and
oil-are subject to the same control.
Great insurance companies. which
gather in the dollars of the people,
have become the private property of
these banking agencies. Trust after
trust and monopoly after monopoly
has fallen under their power.
THE ProgressiHes are fighting to
restore Government to the broad
basis of the popular will. We are
determined to break the power of
private monopoly. We shall end its
despotic control
should Preserve Freedom.
I'VE Progressives believe that the
power of the Government should be
used to preserve freedom, not to
crush it. We are opposed to the
use of the injunction in labor dis
putes. We denounce the perversion
Of the power of punishment for con-
tempt of court as a means of de-
priving men of their constitutional
right to trial by jury.
when / am elected President of
the United States there will be no
or Daugherty injunctions.
rhe Federal troops will be restricted
pc degraded to the position of strike
breakers.
The organization Of labor, like the
rganization of farmers and all other
classes Of citizens, for mutual benefit
and legitimate purposes, will be en-
as one of the means of
through the power of asso-
.iation agencies which can deal on
like equal ground with the
enormous aggregations of capital"
Equality Before Law.
Declaring there had been a de-
,truction of equality before the law"
Senator La Toilette declared 'legisla-
ion was needed making 1t a crime
'or any individual. whether an Of
icial or a private citizen, or for any
to interfere with the
exercise oI tne Tl6HlS ol IIee speecH,
rec press and freedom of assem- bly,"
IT believe that all thorough Ameri-
.ans will join with me in this de-
nand," he continued. THE preserva-
ion of these fundamental rights de-
,ends upon the maintenance of genu-
ne representative government. The
people themselves, through their
elected representatives,. must guard
heir liberties. No one else will
protect them.
To-day we hear on every side that
he courts are the defenders of the
iberties of the peopl-that without
hir benign protection constitutional
lights would cease to exist. No in
elligent citizen believes this asser-
ion. know that there are many