Senator La Follette died last week, and the United States
lose a striking figure in their political world. His State of Wisconsin followed him devotedly, but lie never greatly influenced the whole country. Although he would not support Mr. Roosevelt in 1912, he stood for the Pre- sidency in 1924 as the progressive Republican leader, but gained even less success than some thought would come during his " hurricane " campaign, in which his immensely verbose enthusiasm seemed now and again infective. Like many other sincere Radicals with no great depth of knowledge, he was sometimes at the mercy of sentiment and sensation. He was inclined to pacifism, and at the beginning of the War his fear that his country would join the Allies gave him a regrettable bias against our cause. The Radicals in the United States have lost their leader, to whom there is no obvious successor.
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