National Affairs: In Beloit

In Beloit, Wis., Senator Robert M. LaFollette was working up to a steaming climax in his denunciation of Samuel Insull, politically big-hearted public utility potentate. His forensic fist smote the railing of the speaker's platform in Beloit's best bandstand; 40 electric lights went out.

"Are those Insult's lights?" shrieked the Senator from Wisconsin. "Never mind, I can show him up in the dark!"

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