A Colorado Senator

Governor Sweet of Colorado, the much-advised, appointed a Senator to succeed the late Samuel D. Nicholson. Ex-President Wilson, William G. McAdoo, William J. Bryan and General Leonard Wood all made suggestions. Governor Sweet chose to select his own man, Alva B. Adams, son of the late Governor Alva Adams. Governor Sweet's party label is " Progressive Democrat." So it was expected that he would appoint a Democrat of radical tendencies--a Democratic La Follette, another Dill. It was understood that the La Follette group wanted him to appoint ex-Congressman Keating, now editor of Labor. Instead he brought about more or less of unification among all shades of Democrats, and appointed Mr. Adams, a "mild Conservative." The new Senator, a Yale graduate, a lawyer, during the war a member of the Judge Advocate's department, announced his policies: 1) Private ownership of the railroads. 2) Some modification of the Esch-Cummins railroad law. 3) Enforcement of prohibition. 4) Adequate military and naval defense. 5) Opposition to La Follette's attitude in foreign affairs. 6) United States participation in the World Court. His appointment is good till the Fall of 1924, when an election will be held to fill Senator Nicholson's term, which expires in 1926.