The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-03
la TOILETTE MUST FIGHT
HARD TO KEEP HIS SEAT
Beveridge Seems Sure of REELECTION
if Republicans Hold Indiana
Minnesota Will Return Clapp.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 3e.-
Three of the insurgent senators--La
Toilette, Clapp and Beveridge-are
to come up for reelection next year,
and already a good deal of talk is
being heard as to the probable result.
Clapp, of Minnesota, it is believed
in Washington, will be returned. The
insurgent movement came at the right
m oment for him, driving possible ri
walls to cover. In his insurgency, the
Minnesota senator reflected perfectly
the prevailing sentim ent of his state,
for which reason Washington be-
lieves that the state will send him
to the senate for another six years.
The same thing is true as to Senator
Beveridge. But for the tariff session
of congress and the opportunity it
gave him to make a record, it is be-
lieved here that Senator Beyeridge
would he retired at the end of the
present congress, either by the state
electing a democratic legislature, or
by the appearance of rival candidates
in the Republican party. 1t is now
said that Beverdge is to succeed him.
self and that he has made so many
friends among the Democrats of his
state that the outlook for a Republi
can Legislature is very much better
than it was several months ago. Sen
ator La Toilette of Wisconsin has
harder and closer fight than either
of the other two insurgents. and
Washington doesn't know how it will
turn out.
Henry Dean, a well known bust
ness man of Milwaukee, and also in
terested in the politics of his state,
in Washington a few days ago. said
some things about the La Toilette
situation that of general interest. At
ter remarking that the oncoming
senatorial campaign in Wisconsin
promised to be one of the M ost bitter
in the recent history of the North
west, he said:
Furious Fight Expected.
Preparations to GUST Senator La
Toilette are even now being made.
He has plenty of political enemies in
states other than Wisconsin, and we
expect that they will all be willing
to do something toward the result
they so greatly desire to have brought
about. 1t will undoubtedly be the
most furious senatorial fight our state
which La Toilette has antaxonized as
senator are to go after his official
scalp. according to advices which the
state has received during the past
few months, and already there seem
to be indications of a beginning of
their activity in certain parts of the
state. Personally l expect to see La
Toilette win, for he is the strongest
the Civil War. Should he be defeated,
it will not only be a disappointment
to his many friends in the state. but
a loss to the insurgent forces of the
Senate. The opponents of the sena-
tor owing to his stand on the tariff
are trying to make it appear that the
INSTRUMENTATION lines. If the
senator should be reelected, Wiscon-
sin believes that he will become a
strong presidential possibility"
While things are looking up for
Senator Beverdge as already set
forth. it must not be taken Tor granted
that Indiana is certain to go Republi-
can next year. His record will help
toward that end, but it is evident that
there is to be a pretty stiff fight in
the state. The Democratic victory in
Indiana last fall has given the lead
ers of that party much heart. Most
of them believe that a new tide -
rising and it will be their hope to
take it at it's flood 1t is noted.
among other things, that the mum Der
of aspirants for office in Indiana is
| large. For more than a decade this
has not been true. Democratic pros
poets being poor, ambitious men in