The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-06
SENATE ECLIPSE
FOR La TOILETTE
Wisconsin Senator Likely to Elk.
I perience Snubs Worse Than
Reveridge Suffered. {
BY ". W. Jermane.

] Washington, April 6.-Should Gov
ernor La Toilette come to the United
I States senate, what will he be able to
1 DO to advance the policies for which he
has stood so perslstently for yearss
Will he form an alliance with President
Roosevelt and be the president IS cham
pion in the senate?
When La Toilette was member of
the house of representative years ago,
lie was a radical, but in the budding
stage. He was on the ways and means
committee when Mckinley was it's
chairman. His record was good, and
| the experience he gained would be help
1 full to him in the senate. :
Z The La Toilette Of the house is not
the La Toilette Of today, and he will
not be the mouthpiece of the admins
tration. It is we'll understood that the
president regards La Toilette as too
much of an extremist, and unless his
mental attitude undergo a great change,
La Toilette will be no closer to Roose-
/ Velt than any other member ON the re-
! publican side.
Spooner Is a Power.
ii For four years longer, at least, Soma
! tor SpOoner will be in the senate, and
one of it's commanding figures. He and
La Toilette are bitter enemies, and La
/ Toilette, in the last campaign, put the
~ RPooAC1 LII us w SUCH q IOuG DIS lucy
never before experienced. Spooner is
aolidly entrenched in senate leadership.
He is prominent by reason of long
E service on senate committees His
friends in that body include almost
every man who eXerts any influence
worth while. La Toilette will have a
\ voice and vote, and that is all. His
important, and his opportunities to ex-
ert an influence on legislation nil. Pre-
FALLING senate sentiment will be di-
Tected against him, and he will be
about as Lonesome man as has been in
congress for many years AS radical,
he will be out of place in a conserva-
tive body,~and as the champion Of GER
tain economic reforms, among them the
better regulation Of the great carrying
Companies, he will be offensive to men
who make senate sentiment and control
senate policies. This may sound harsh
but it is the truth.
Beveridge's Experience.
+! Z When Senator Beveridge first came
ate, he took it upon himself to make
an address upon the Philippine ques
ton. Later on he made a second ad
dress on the same question, and then he
passed into retirement, from which he
only began to emerge two years ago.
Beverage 8 experience IS nkely TO De
duplicated by Governor La Toilette, but
the ]atter's eclipse will be Of longer du
ration. The trouble with the Indiana
statesman was that the senate regarded
his speeches as impertinent. 1t re
scented his coming to Washington, and
before he had warmed his seat, getting
up and telling how the country should
manage it's colonial affairs.
Beveridge was quick to see his mis-
take and careful not to repeat it, Afte
he had been sufficiently disciplined, h
was taken into favor, and today he j
the leader Of the senate s younger men
and the confdant of it's older ones.
Capital prophets say La Toilette viii
not be so tractable as Beveridge; tina
his impetuosity will lead him to crow,
to the fore the high moral issues h
represents, to be grievously disappoint
ed when he discovers that no progress
is made. Eruptive speeches might fol
low, and in private he might say thing
that would turn the senate leader
against him. Sentiment would the1
crystalline in a relentless way, and tn
country would not be long in discover
ing him q failure as a senator.
1t may be these statements, will no
be verified, but they express the pre-
vailing Washington opinion. The Uni
ted States senate is no place for radi
cal, and when one goes there the lead
ers have a convenient way Of taggin
and putting him on a shelf.