WHEN PHIL WON IOWA STUDENTS
Allen, Byron G.
When Phil Won Iowa Students By Byron G. Allen, Editor Pocahontas (la.) Democrat "Phil" a Follette Is a candidate for governor of Wisconsin. We hope he wins! It was in 1924. that this...
...Phillip F. La Follette was born at Madison, May 8. 1897...
...because we believe in him—we hope he will be the next governor of Wisconsin...
...In the years since 1924, wc have corresponded with him occasionally and have watched his career...
...In 1924 he was elected district attorney of Dane county, and gained recognition for the vigorous administration of that office...
...himself...
...graduating with honors...
...In 1923...
...a La Follette, like father or not...
...Since 1926 he has been lecturer in law at his alma mater...
...We met Phil La Follette at Ames in 1924 when the progressive campaign committee had sent us to Ames to schedule a speaking date for "Fiery Phil" who was anxious to address the student body of Iowa State college in behalf of his father who was then a candidate for the presidency...
...Fighting Bob...
...Wc admire the name of La Follette...
...Educated in the public srhools...
...he married Isabcll Bason, a fellow student at the university...
...They have two children, Robert Marion and Judith Bason...
...Later, the students were polled by a straw vote and La Follette won...
...So we made an arrangement with Mayor Schleiter for police protection and engaged a vacant lot, a half block oft Pearson's sacred domain...
...But...
...right or wrong with his sympathies on the side of the common people...
...a son of Robert Marion La Follette and Belle Case La Follrtle...
...he later attended George Washlncton university for onp year and finished law in the University of Wisconsin in 1922...
...that folks say is more like his father...
...that this writer first met the boy...
...There, several thousand students and common folks from the farms and small towns, 'round about, gathered to hear "Fiery Phil" extoll the crowd to the cause of a new alignment, a breaking away from the traditional lines that have held so tightly since the Civil war...
...Because we know him, because we admire him...
...than United States Senator Robert Marion Jr...
...Prexy" Pearson denied us the right to appear an the campus, a privilege he had previously granted to the Coolioge-Dawes caravan with a concert by the college band as an opener...
...We love "Fiery Phil...
...He served in the army, helping to fight the war whirh his illustrious father urged that the United States not enter...
...The efforts were not in vain for most of these same young men and women still abhor the idea that conditions are right Just because they exist...
...is a La Follette and a progressive—courageous in his thinking and action, and...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 36
