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Show Banner Day of La Fol- lette Tour in Illinois PEORIA. 111., Jan. I. Sen ator Robert M, La Folletto and - -f- parly reached this city at 8 o'clock tonight, ono hour be -f hind schedule. Tho day's jour- -h n oy began at Jollet nnd ad- -t- dresses were made at Morris, -t- Strcator. Ottawa, La Salle and Spring Valley. Large Cnnvds greeted the senator at all those points and his colleagues claim It has been the banner day of the La Folletto tour. Tho senator seemed weak, tho result re-sult of eating oysters in Chicago and a subsequent attack of ptomalno poisoning. poi-soning. Ho had difficulty in speaking speak-ing the greater part of the day. In the up-state towns the tarift came in for a scoring as did those congressmen who, he declared, wero working for and serving special interests. in-terests. The senator was firm In Ills belief that tho time has arrived when the common peoplo will do away with tho old-time method of selecting political pol-itical bosses. Monopoly Destroys Business Monopoly, he declared, has destroyed de-stroyed legitimate business and the lack of competition has sent prices soaring. The senator urged his hearers hear-ers to help defeat the old machine so that tho government can be put back in the hands of the pToplo and once moro bo a republic. At his hotel, beforo reaching the theater Iu this city, Senator La Fol-lotte Fol-lotte was attacked with a severe spell of nausea. At about 0.30 o'clock, however, he made his appearance and was vigorously cheered. Chairman IVJcRobcrts introduced him a:j tho man "who has mado good and knows how." Tho senator followed nbout the same lines as in the up-state cities. Tariff as a Protection. Ho took exception, however, to statements in Chicago papers makinpr him say tho Sherman anti-trust law was the finest pieco of legislation In existence. Ho told how ho had offered of-fered amendments to tho law. In speaking of the tariff Sonator La Folletto said. "I do not believo in the Democratic idoa of putting all manufactured articles ar-ticles on the freo list. That would mean particularly all articles manufactured manu-factured by trusts. I believe the tariff tar-iff should bo a protection to labor and labor alone and that it should be governed by tho difference In conditions con-ditions botween the laboring men or this country aud thoso of foreign countries." Tho party leaves tomorrow for j Blooinington and cities down-state. |