The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-05
LA TOILETTE IS < TO TALK 2 DAYS
 ON THE LEAGUE
Nobody Knows What Side
 He Will Take in Address on Mooted Topic.
FIRST VOICE FROM
 RADICAL ELEMENTS
La Seur Writes Letter to Senator and is Branded a
 Bolshevist.

Washington, August 2.-Senator Ia- Toilette has given notice that before long he will address the Senate on the League of Nations and that 1t will probably take two days to complete his remarks.
 This will be the maiden speech on the League by the Senator from Wis consin. What angle will he take? Whether he will flay or praise the principles of the President is a mat ter of mere conjecture, for he has been singularly silent and non-com- initial the subject.
 This will be the first outpourtng of the League of Nations sentiment from the radical wing. Down in front sit Senator La Toilette and Senator Gronna from North Dakota, both rep resenting the .'liberaP' opinions of the Northwest. Through all the oratori- cal broadsides of the past few weeks, they have remained dumb. Neither fiery debate nor scathing sarcasm upon moot points of militarism, paci- fsm CT nationalism or that new buga- boo, internationalizatio have they deigned to notice. not even when con- troversial vistas of what might be termed home topics to near-Social- ists have been clearly opened.
 Senator Gronna, who has been far more talkative in the Senate than his colleague from Wisconsin, gave the first hint of how the radical feeling was running when he presented to the Senate a day or so ago a letter writ ten to him by one of the well-known radicals in the Northwest-Arthur Le Sueur, a foremost figure in the nom Partisan League and prominent also in Socialist circles. MT. Le Sueur Is nftan Sonken nS in Minnesota ~ Townley's right-hand man. In re- cent investigation on the ground, one Middle Western observer came away with the conviction that, taking the non-partisan official group by and large, about the only real Socialists and ear-BolshevistS were MT. and Mrs. Le Sueur, both of whom had a hand in the editorial end of Socialist literature and in Socialist organiza- tion for a number of years. There would be no other name, not even that of the president of the league, MT. Townley, that would arouse the Minnesota senators to greater wrath. Le Sueur embodies to their mind the whole gamut of alleged disloyalties in the Northwest.
 The venerable Senator Knute Nelson listened to the altercation between Senator Gronna and Senator John sharp Williams when the Norln ba- kotan put the Le Sueur letter into the Record, and finally burst out:
 This MT. Le Sueur Is rank Social ist, one of the moving spirits of the Non-Partisan League. During the war he came as near being disloyal as was possible for any man to be and not step over the line"
 But the interesting feature in this lively passage of charges of Bolshe- vism was not the backfire from Mime sota and Mississippi when Le Sueur's name was mentioned, but the example the letter itself set of the whole trend of radical opinion in the country in the matter of the present peace pro gramme. The Congress. and in particu- larly the Senate, is the last place in the United States where there has been reflection of the liberal senti- ment. For all that came out there un- der it's true colors there might have been said to be none anywhere be- tween the Atlantic and the Pacific. Yet, once outside, in deliberative cir cles, the trend was the other way. liberal opinions have been frequent ly stated and many an intellectual confessed to a tinge of what he termed himself as wholesome radicalism.