A SENATORIAL CHASER

Ever since President Harding promulgated his World Court proposal, the Republican regiments have been muttering and boiling like an angry sea. The spectre of the League of Nations poked its head over the trees and immediately the President was besieged with requests to stick his head in the sand. Whether he was right or wrong in believing that he saw the people's faces turned toward Europe, for him to play ostrich now would be ludicrous. Hence Mr. Harding, ungratefully locking the politicians in the kitchen, steadfastly proposes to carry his cause to the people during the summer.

From the ranks of the despairing politicians Senator La Follette has stepped forth, calm and prepared to meet the impending catastrophe. If President Harding insists on forcing such unpalatable food upon the people, the Senator will be their doctor. He has already prescribed the antidote--one strong La Follette speech after every Harding meal. And to make sure that the remedy reaches all, he will follow in the President's wake,--or at a distance sufficient to smother any whispers that his itinerary was planned with malice aforethought.

Senator La Follette is a radical Republican, whatever that may be. He has several colleagues in the next Senate, who group themselves in the same category, but the only common principle of the genre appears to be, Balk the President. In spite of the fact that the Senator professes his doctrines to be those of the people, he deems it necessary to go into a long course of training for the preparation of his antidote before starting the summer campaign. Then he will go forth and gather pebbles for his role of David in the next session of Congress. Doubtless his band will be able to make a great pother in the Senate: but that this will advance Senator La Follette's prospects is far from doubtless.