The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-14
WILL SNUB LA TOILETTE.
Wisconsin Senator Will Have Worse
Time Than Beveridge.

WASHINGTON, April 14.-Should
Governor La Toilette come to the
United States senate what will he be
able to do to advance the policies for
which ne has stood SO persistently for
years.. Will he form an alliance with
President Roosevelt and be the pres
ident's champion in the senate?
When La Toilette was a member of
the house of representatives years ago,
he was 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
helpful to him in the senate.
The La Follettee of the house is not
the La Toilette of today, and he will
not be the mouthpiece of the admins
tration 1t is we'll understood that the
president regards La Toilette too
much of an extremist, and unless his
mental attitude undergoes a great
to the president than any other men,
Der on the republican side.
Spooner Is Power
For four years longer, at least, Sen
ator 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 Spooner forces to such a rout
as they never before experienced. SEN
ator Spooner is solidly entrencned in
senate leadership. He is prominent by
reason of his long service on senate
committees. His friends in that body
include almost every man who exerts
any influence worth while. La Toilette
will have voice and vote, and that
is all. His first committee assign
ments will be unimportant, and his
opportunities to exert an influence on
legislation nil. Prevailing senate SEN
timent will be directed against him,
and he will be about as lonesome
man as has been in congress in many
years. AS a radical he will be out of
place in a conservative body, and as
chairman of certain economic reforms,
among them the better regulation of
great carrying companies, he will be
offensive to men who make senate sem
timent and control senate politics. This
may sound harsh, but it is the truth.
Beveridge's Experience
When Senator Beveridge first came
to Washington as a member of the
senate, he took upon himself to make
an address upon the Philippine ques-
ton. Later on he made second adj
he passed into retirement, from which
he only began to emerge two years
ago.
Beveridge's experience is likely to be
duplicated by Governor La Toilette,
but the latter's eclipse will be of longer
duration. The trouble with the Indi-
ana statesman was that the senate re-
garded his speeches as impertient. 1t
resented 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. At
ter he had been sufficiently disciplined,
he was taken into favor, and today he
is the leader of the senate's younger
men, and the confident of the older
ones.
Capital prophets say La Follettee
will not be so tractable as Beveridge;
that his impetuosity will lead him to
crowd to the fore the high moral is
sues he represents, to be grievously
disappointed when he discovers that
no progress is made. Eruptive
speeches might follow, and in private
he might say things that would turn
tthe senate leaders against him. Sem
timent would then crystalline in re-
lentless way, and the country would
not be long in discovering him fall
ure as a senator.
1t may be these statements will not
be verified but they express the pre-
vailing Washington opinion. The
United States senate is no place for a
radical, and when one goes there the
leaders have a convenient way of tag
ging him and putting him on the shelf.
School Sumo rinfendents