The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-06-19
NATION PAYS
TRIBUTE TO
FALLEN CHIEF
Leaders of All Political
Creeds Praise Ability of
Robert La Toilette
FUNERAL IN MADISON
High Officials of Government
Send Condolences to
Senator's Widow

Washington, June l9.-P)-A Spe-
cial train will bear the body of Sen
ator Robert NJ La Toilette, who died
|, yesterday, from Washington to his
home city of Madison, Wis.
Leaving Washington at four o'clock
this afternoon. the funeral train run
ming as special section of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroads capital
limited will transfer to the Chicago
Northwestern tomorrow morning at
Chicago and will reach Madison
shortly before two o'clock in the
afternoon.
Funeral Monday
At Madison the body will lie in
state at the capitol on Sunday and
the funeral will be Monday at that
building. Burial will be at Fort Hill
Cemetery.
Original plans were for the party
to travel on a regular train was
changed because of the size of the
funeral party which made it neces-
sary for the railroads to furnish ad-
ditional facilities.
Members of the family are unde-
cided as to where the body will he
taken from the train. 1t may be
that it will be carried first to the La
Toilette home just outside of Madi-
son to remain there until early Sun
day, the day it will lie in state at the
state house.
Funeral services will be held in
the capitol at II a. M, Monday. DR..
A. E. Hayden of the University of
Chicago, School of Divinity, will con-
duct the services.
Wheeler To Attend
Senator Wheeler of Montana, the
Wisconsin senator's running mate
in the 1924 presidential campaign,
will attend the funeral as a member
of senate committee appointed today.
The committee includes Ladd and
Frazier of North Dakota. Norbeck of
South Dakota and Shipstead of Min
nesota.
Leaders Of all political creeds were
quick to pay tribute to Senator La
Follete and acknowledge his influ-
ence on contemporary American poll
ties. One of the first to offer con-
dolences to Mrs. La Toilette was
President Coolidge, who wrote:
Coolidge Has Sympathy
"The news has just reached me of
wish to extend to you and your fam
lily the sympathy of myself and Mrs.
Coolidge. As you know, I presided
over the senate for a considerable
period while he was a member OF
that body and so came to know of
his great ability and untiring energy.
He has left behind him a great con-
course Of friends who will, l know,
do everything in their power to COM
fort you in this hour, but my own
experience tells me that nothing that
mortal can do will be of very much
help to you. trust that you may,
as the years 60 by, find an increas-
ing satisfaction in the long list of
honors that we're conferred upon
Senator La Toilette by his country
men,"
As soon as he heard of his COL
leagues death, Senator Lenroot, of
Wisconsin, one time follower of Mr..
La Toilette, but Of late at odds with
him politically, called at the home to
extend his sympathy to members Of
the family.
Another who offered condolences
was Senator Wheeler of Montana,
who as vice-president candidate,
shared the independent ticket with
Senator La Toilette last November.
In a statement, Senator Wheeler de-
clared that LA Toilette dead will be
even more powerful that La Toilette
living" and predicted that "the fight
for the principles which he has ad
vocated these many years will be
carried on by the people with the
same indomitable courage which he
has always manifested"
Kellogg Pays Tribute
From Secretary Kellogg came the
tribute that Mr.. La Toilette had
"long and distinguished career of
public service and was man of great
ability and extraordinary energy and
force"
Senator Borah of Idaho, whose
proclivity for Independent voting fire.
quently put him in the same fold
with Mr.. La Toilette, declared the
latter had been devoted to the pub
lie good, and, in all his plans and
ambitions, a patriot"
Declaring that "he boldly led" Sem
ator Borah added that "human suf-
fering, human misery. oppression, in
justice, could at all times and under
all circumstances enlist the uncom-
promising support Of this gladiator"
Another tribute came from Secre-