Evening star., 1925-06-22
SIMPLICITY MARKS
F. La. TOILETTE RITES
Dead Senator Called Friend
of All Humble People in
Funeral Sermon.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, June 22-Services
of extreme simplicity attended the
burial today of Senator Robert Marion
La Toilette.
Although from the moment his
funeral train arrived here last Sat
urday from Washington the State
claimed his body for it's own, there
. was nothing of pony or ceremony in
these. the last honors that 1t might
tender.
That was as the Senator himself
had wished.
To friends of a lifetime was given
the sad task of conveying the body
to sanctuary in his native soil at a
point overlooking a broad blue lake
beside which he was born and came
TO mans estate.
Brief Service Held.
Many others with whom he had
labored so long in the State and the
Nation were gathered from far and
near to do homage at his bier
The expansive rotunda of the mas
Siye State capitol. where yesterday his
body lay in state, was the place of the
brief funeral service, arranged as fol
lows:
Hymn, Nearer My God to Thee"
Mozart and Mannechoir Chorus.
Funeral sermon, DR.. a. +. Hayden
OF Chicago
Hymn, Abide With Me-" Mozart
and Mannechoir Chorus.
America" with the chorus lead
Ing the audience.
Thousands had journeyed to Madi-
son for the, funeral. Many of these
came to join the throngs that viewed
the body yesterday while others
reached here today by trains from
Chicago and other nearby points some
hours before the services at l pm.
Many View Body.
Throughout the hours that the body
lay in state a steady stream of people
passed in reverent silence. Even be-
fore the doors of the StatehouSe We're
opened at noon long lines had formed
at Capitol Square, and when they
were closed again at twilight some
still were waiting
Robert NJ. La Toilette was described
as the embattled prophet of a new
democracy in a funeral sermon de-
Hvered by DR.. A. l.. Hayden, associa-
ate professor of the history of re-
ligions at the University of Chicago
and pastor of the Unitarian Church
of Madison.
His was the voice of humaniSm in
politics" DIR. Hayden said. Confront
ed with the tragedies of a soulless,
material civilization, Robert NJ La
Toilette dedicated himself to the prin-
ciple that government is the guardian
and servant of the life of all the peo-
pie, to the ideal that statecraft should
he an intelligent instrument for So
cial amelioration. He pointed the way
to a cooperating democracy of intelli-
gence and heart. He was therefore
above the battles of factions and
parties
Intelligence His Weapon.
He worked for the solution of
problems, the righting of wrongs, the
removal of injustices, and his weapon
was Intelligence. burning with a white
light in analysis and accumulation of
facts. Dedicated to this ideal, he found
himself constantly on the side of the
poor. of the worker, fighting the bat
tie of those in whose faces the doors
of opportunity We're being closed in
this once free land.
He was forced to challenge special
privilege in every form and sphere
He became the champion of the weak
against the arrogance of wealth and
power. Fearless, incorruptible, his
head above the murk and miasma of
selfiShnesS and greed, his feet firmly
planted in the thickness of fact he