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Show I LA FOUETTE 1 IS FOR TAFT j Supposed Pro gressi ve Si , Senator Shows Where w I He Stands in Politics if taint Washington. Aug. 17 In a pictur- W esquc, spontaneous outburst during ig the debntc of the president's wool 'eg tariff veto in the senate. Senator li-ln li-ln toilette today attacked the new Pro- gressive party, and swore new allegiance alle-giance to Progressive Republicanism. ; The "original Insurgent" poured out 1 a Hood of Impassioned oratory chat fj kept the floor and galleries rapt with f ' silence After reviewing the trust record of Colonel Roosevelt, Senator LaFollettc declared that the former president f "was not the man to find the way out I now." He said that when the Republican Repub-lican party, thiough its progiessive associates, had reached a point "where It would respond to the purposes for which it was born an attempt is made at Chicago to divert it," Senator Stone asked Mr. LaFollettc whether he meant the nomination of President Taft or the nomination of Ex-President Roosevelt "I am surprised," began Senator LaFollette, "that I left the senator from Missouri in doubt I hope I did not leave any doubt in the mind of anyone else." Then, moving down the center of the aisle, he continued: "On the day Theodore Roosevelt was made president of the 'United SlatG3 there were 149 trusts and combinations com-binations in the United States. When he turned this government over to William Howard Taft, there were 10.-020 10.-020 plants in combination When he became president the trusts had an : aggregate capitalization of three ml!- ' Hon dollars and when he left the presidency they had an aggregate i capitalization of thirty-one billion and I more than 70 per cent of It was water I Boosts Taft Administration. i j a "The present administration has sought to apply the anti-trust law I i more vigorously than his predecessor; predeces-sor; but the time to have applied the i ; Sherman anti-trust law effectively was i in the Infancy of these trusts, when : l there were only 149. "I don't believe that the man who r" was president at the time of all times 1 In the history of the Sherman ami's; ami-'s; trlBt law when it could hae been I made potential in deterring trust or- E'YT paajzatlon, I do not think that the man, II who was president then is the man JE to find the way out now," !''r Then, turning to Senator Stone, Senator IaFollettc inquired "Does' i. that answer the senator from Mis- j souri?" "That does fairly well," responded E Senator Stone, drvh Senator LaFolIette's outburst came without a warning He arose to mako i an analysis of the President's veto 5 message on the wool bill, but had Rj spoken scarcely a dozen words when BV the break came He saw that many Lui Republican senators h-d left their LI seats as he began to speak and. with M a hitter smile, as he turned to the tf president of the senate: S Many Senators Leave. H "I note the fact " he said, "that on R the Republican side theie are Just j 14 senators present. I am constrain - . ed to speculate a bit about this I 0 am Impelled to question whether that mt condition may not be a sort of pro-Q( pro-Q( '. presy of what is to come''" jj Senator LaFollettc continued "I W don't believe the country Is going to $ fiod any measure of relief by wander- t ing off Into unexplored fields under the l guidance of a pilot who exercised a It r a cry supreme control while we were m , getting Into exactly the same condi-t condi-t tlon the country is in now "I didn't intend to make this sort of a speech. But I would Hkp to go on I intended to go on In two or three weeks, night and dsy, I am never going to stop until the Republicans Republi-cans In the house of representatives and in the senate and each of the legislatures leg-islatures are truly progressive I am going to keep the fight in tho Repub-. Repub-. Hean party. I think that Is the best 0) Instrument through which to pro-"m pro-"m gress. yi: "Now when it Is the purpose to J I make the Republican party respond to the purposes for which It was born, It' an attempt is made at Chicago to dl-m dl-m vert it. It won't succeed" I! |