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Show LA FOLIXTTB'S PROPHECY. Th first time La Follette made a speech in the senate and he did it when he hadn 't been aenator much more than tw'-yjll,tm"t,1t tid done in the case of' Beveridge. The gallery remained, just as it had done before. When he found himself de serted by practically the entire senate membership. La Follette briefly inter rupted hia speech to observe: "1 cannotgbe insensible to the fact that aenatora abseat themselves during my remarks. I want to say that though my observations may hav so interest to the senate, they have a very keen interest to the country. And I take the liberty to observe that seats which are now iemporarily vacated will later be vacated permanently." Prophecy is rather a dangerous bust ness unless vou are a good gueeser: but La Follette was as reckless in indulging prophecy as he was in courting defeat. Of the men who were senators, and who walked out the ebanVber that day, the following hsv since been defeated and retired: Ankeny of Washington. Foraker of Ohio, Fulton of Oergos, Hanabrough of North Dakota, Hemenway of Indiana. Hopkins of Illinois, Kittredge of North Dakota. Long of Kanaas, MrCreary of Kentucky. Piatt of New York. Teller of Colorado, Whvte of Maryland, Aldrirh of Bhode Island, Bulkeley of Connecticut, Connecti-cut, Burkett of Nebraska, Burrow of Michigan, Carter of Montana, Depew of New York, Dick of Ohio, Flint of California, Frasier of Tennessee, Hale of Maine, Kean of New Jersey, Piles of Washington, Scott of West Virginia, Taliaferro of Florida, Warner of Mia-souri. Mia-souri. Hpooner of Wisconsin, Alger of Michigan, Ale of Delaware, Berry of Arkansas, Blackburn of Kentucky. Clark of Montana, Dryden of New Jer-aev. Jer-aev. Millard of Nebraska. Thirty five eount 'em thirty v, and almoat to s man they were retired because they didn't understand what La Follette waa talking about, didn't understand what the country waa think-ing think-ing about, didn't understand, or were unwilling to do, what the country demanded de-manded and expected of them. It is not necessa-v to introduce testimony on this point. Everybody who has maintained main-tained th most casus! touch with politics poli-tics during the last fiv years ia familiar famil-iar with tha uprising of progressive opinion that drove these men out of their senatorial seata. Judson C. Weill-ver, Weill-ver, in Munse.y 'a Magazine. |