Show I I I STE WASHINGTON TON J 3 L ETTER Ei TH or OP u MAY MA aiE N TIle IM END 1 lly By ll Charles l I 1 Stewart EA E. Service SerIce Ser Ice Writer WASHINGTON ASHI July 2 Upon the next twelve months' months political developments de growing out of ot Pen Nen- en- en ator Robert M Si La olie l tte death depends national Progressive Isms future perhaps for tor many years ears Is Progressive Ism a a. movement movement of ot which La l Follette was no more mor than a IL part part part-a a mighty important I part part but but ut only a a. part I Or was he the whole thing If It the formers former's the case cue o of course even ln the death of ot a q 1 strong siren leader can spell no more than a a. temporary setback a II little more mor delay dela If It the latter the cause too 1 is dead To be bo sure aure therell there'll be progress with a small p 1 but the group grou the Wisconsin senator led bly will break up up various various cat cal careers probably will end wit with the expiration of current terms On One On thing which suggests weak weak- weakness weakness ness nus at al first thought may prove pro to bo be Pro Isms strength strength- though referred to as a 11 bloc It never was a hard-and-fast hard align align- alignment alignment alignment ment like 0 a II party parly with regular regula adherents requiring to be led Still La Follette did sound th the call for tor every ery rally which the tho in independents in- in independents dependents made Will somebody else be be found t to todo todo do this In hl his il place Or is n no particular leader needed Th The next session of congress will begin to show Administration lion tion spokesmen profess to feel fee sure already that Insurgency Is II a athing thing of the thc past pest In reality nobody can tell lell with with- without without out Olt a definite test If fate tate de depends de- de depends depends on a 11 successor to La Fo Folette Fol- Fol Follette Follette lette who can fill his shoes shoe no no- nobody's nobody's nobody's body's In sight eight Senator Borah has the necessary qualities of oC strength courage an and 1 rn but ho Isn't ft II Pro Pro- with wilh with a 1 big P all P all th the tho time A follower may be bo a II par part part- timer r but a II leader must be consistently con Con- on the th job Senator Norris Is so regular I in his hie hi Ism Ism as to bo a al- al almost almost most the real thing but he hasn't the pugnacity La Follette po He can put UD a 11 terrific fight when he hC likes but he does dols I Inot not alwa always s like Senator Wheelers Wheeler's a whole I hog Progressive c and nobody ever was readier adler r for a scrap but he isn't as yet et a a. political heavy y heavyweight heavyweight I weight which is essential In this case Besides hes he's a II Democrat and to be effective at nt this time Pro- Pro Ism e needs to draw from the Republicans' Republicans strength That about exhausts the tho list of ot available a Progressive Ism If its it's to sur- sur viva without La Ia Follette l must survive sur on its Us own merits It I I cant can't hope to be pulled through by virtue of strong leadership This of course refers to the I Progressive ism which was launched at the Cleveland confer confer- conference conference conference ence of ot a a. year Oear ago Something else may develop later along the same lines That's a different thing Needless to say sa the regular Re Re- Republicans Republicans publicans will spare no effort having been afflicted far worse by Ism Progressive than It has troubled trou trou- troubled troubled bled the Democrats to make Wis Wisconsin Is safe safo for regularity at nt the election of 1926 1916 With Ith La Follette gone gon they the arc much more hopeful of Senator I Lenroot's I return to J I ho Ike upper UJ t r I house and hoys ho s are arc expressed d of i putting a regular ular In La Ja Toilettes Toilette's I Iown own seat scat I They The cant can't do this until Novem Novem- November I ber her of ot next year since the vac sac vacancy ancy will bo be filled tilled temporarily by b Governor Go malnes appointment and as he is a Progressive him him- himself himself self a a. Progressive will twill be his choice Ono Olio remark by Senator Wheeler may prove significant that significant that LaFollette La LaFollette LaFollette Follette dead will be more powerful power power- powerful powerful ful en even than La Follette Toilette alive This isn't impossible His name may become one to conjure by With Ith his death loath much of ot the bitterness which was felt toward him living will disappear dh Idealized It Is quite likely there will be Immense strength for the cause couse he preached In his memory perhaps a a. strength greater than his own on a living man on the senate floor |