EDUCATED SENATORS

To those sniffers who insist that the politician and the intellectual are at opposite poles of humanity, the nominations for the approaching senatorial election in Connecticut will come as a severe shock. The Republican nominee is Professor Bingham of Yale, whose title is almost a guarantee of his mental superiority. The Democratic nomince is Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent. Neither of them is a mere theorist, however, for they have both engaged enthusiastically in the rough and tumble of political controversies.

Lord Bryce, whose dismal prophesies concerning the abilities of American public men have long been accepted with humility, may yet be refuted. The upper hierarchy of officials and representatives begins to shine with intellectual distinction of a sort a condition which would hardly have been tolerated by the electorate of Jackson's time. Strange as this state may be to those who feel that the government must reflect the stupidity as well as the wishes of the masses, it would be more alarming if the extraordinary diffusion of higher education among the prosperous classes in America were not soon reflected in its political life.