The Washington times., 1922-09-05

WILLIAM HARD. from people VINO
really do not know or care II La
Toilette is wet. What bothers them
is that they are perfectly sure that
he Is progressive. Their idea - TO
strike him out as a wet and watch
him drop dead as a progressive. The
anti.Saloon League is hurting a load
ed dry ball at La Toilette. Vets and
drys throughout the country viii
watch to see how far he hits II.
The next bleacher Is inhabited by
fans who like or who do not like
the league OF nations and the four
power treaty. La Toilette Is the
third Senator to face a primary aft
er having opposed both Mr.. Wilson's
all outdoor league, and Mr.. Hard
ing's Pacific ocean and island bush
league. Reed Of Missouri was the
first. johnson of California was the
second. La Toilette Is the third.
France Of Maryland next week will
be the fourth and last. Reed won.
Johnson won. II La Toilette and
France win, there will be a four
cylinder knock in the four-power
treaty.
The international fans who are
watching Wisconsin today are per-
haps on their way to witnessing
not only a deeper burial OF the
League Of Nations but a gradual
diving of the four power treaty on
it's shelf in the State Department
library.
The third bleacher is full Of
ladies' and gentlemen who are IN
terested in more progressivism or
in less progressivism In Americas
champion veteran progressive poll
ma
progressive politics successfully in
Washington when President Nc
Kinley was still sitting on the lid
at Washington and when Theodore
Roosevelt had not yet crawled out
from under the lid.
Today in Wisconsin La Toilette
is playing against a team which
is built on a new model. Part OF
IL consists of ex-La Toilette men
like Senator Lenroot, who wear
progressive uniforms and play in
the infield, where the public can
see them. The rest Of It consists
Of good old anti-La Toilette stall
wart reactionaries, who wear no
uniforms at all any more and who
play now in the oitfield in the tall
grass in the shadow Of the fence
with the peaks of their caps pulled
well down over their faces. They
got tired running all over Wiscon-
sin chasing the balls which they
themselves used to pitch to La Fol-
lette. Now they subscribe to so
aleties for combating pacificism
bolshevism and La Toilette. and
fn. ha ~ lr-
reverence and La Toilette, and for
combating liquor and La Toilette.
They used to be warriors. Now
they are angels.
Their candidate against La Fol
lette is a Mr.. Garfield. who has
just recently arrived in Wisconsin.
and who rushes in where angels
fear to tread
They tread close by the fence
and now some people think that
after all they have chosen the
place where they will have the
best view Of the ball when La
that he will not be able to hit 1t
against his old adversaries like
Pfister, plus his new mutineers
like, Lenroot and plus the anti.
Saloon League, and the League OF
Nations and the Constitutional
League. These other people think
that La Toilette is up against too
many leagues.
In any case It is generally admitted
that by being against the League Of
Nations and against the four.power
treaty, and against the Volstead law.
and against the present tariff bill,
and against the Teapot Dome naval
oil reserve lease. and for the bonus,
and for the curbing Of the power of