PHIL CONTINUES WHIRLWIND CAMPAIGN; HAS BIG CROWDS
Peavey, Lynn
LA FOLLETTE CROWDS CONTINUE TO ASTOUND LEADERS PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE IN BIG TRIUMPHS Has Spoken To 9,000 In One Day; Big Ovation In Barron County SEN. LA FOLLETTE ARRIVES IN MADISON Candidate's...
...Hoover Creates Group to Study Aid to Jobless Labor, Chamber of Commerce to Be Represented on Newest Body for Study of Situation WASHINGTON—President Hoover announces the creation of a fact-finding 'committee to Investigate unemployment and unemplyoment relief measures...
...The day in Barron county was climaxed when 1500 persons packed the Rice Lake auditorium to capacity to hear La Follette's address...
...The following day, La Follette made s speaking tour of Sawyer county, and that evening addressed a crowd of more than 2,000 persons at Hayward...
...She is being accompanied by Mlss Margaret Johnson...
...In spite of having delivered from three to nine speeches a day for the past three weeks...
...Mrs...
...Madison school teacher, who is also speaking on behalf of La Follette's candidacy...
...On Saturday, he spoke at Iron River and Mason before large sized crowds, and that evening he took the train for Madison, a 300 mile trip...
...The additional three speeches were made at the request of local leaders...
...Isabelle Bacon La Follette who opened her campaign with two addresses Tuesday in Milwaukee...
...Mrs...
...of the campaign Sen...
...under which only a seasoned campaigner of the sturdy La Follette type could stand up...
...A band of 200 Indians had traveled more than 18 miles by truck from the reservation at Reserve, Wis...
...Later in the afternoon he spoke before 3,500 persons at Darlington at an old settlers' picnic...
...La Follette had made the trip back into the northern section of the state again, and he made a tour of Eau Claire county during the day concluding the tour with an address before 1,300 persons at Eau Claire In the evening...
...The La Follette meeting at Rice Lake was as large as any political gathering that has ever been held there, local leaders declared...
...LA FOLLETTE ARRIVES IN MADISON Candidate's Wife Also Starts On Speaking Trip In Milwaukee Carrying his message into the far flung regions- of the stale again during the past week, Phil La Follette, Progressive gubernatorial candidate, succeeded in drawing crowds which have astounded even his most enthusiastic supporters...
...arrived back in Madison on Monday after finishing up his work at the national capital, and is planning to take the stump in the campaign...
...By Monday morning...
...La Follette is a seasoned campaigner before opening her tour on behalf of her husband, having been active In prior campaigns on behalf of Progressives...
...In Barron county, last Wednesday, Phil La Follette delivered nine speeches although his itinerary called for only six...
...Tours Douglas County La Follette spoke in Douglas county Friday, winding up the day at Superior where a crowd of over 900 heard him in spite of the intense heat...
...Arriving in Madison early Sunday morning, he journeyed by auto to New Glarus where he delivered a non-political address before 4,000 persons at the celebration of the Swiss republic anniversary...
...La Follette Speaks The young Progressive standard bear-er was joined in the field this- week by his wife...
...The date when he will open his tour of the state has not been definitely set...
...La Fol-lette's voice is in fine, shape, and shows no signs of fatigue...
...Addressing from a few hundred to nearly 9.000 people a day, La Follette has been hammering away at a strenuous par...
...Robert M. La Follette Jr...
...She is planning a tour which will take her into many of the important sections of the state, and will wind up her canvass of the state in Milwaukee county during the late day...
...to provide entertainment for the meeting...
...The officall announcement states that the members of the committee will Include representatives of the "American Federation of Labor, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers' Association, the Industrial Conference Board, the railway employes and other local organi-zations, the National Bureau of Eco- j nomic Changes, and other economic bodies...
...William M. Stcuart, director of the census: Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner of labor statistics, and a representative of the Department of Agriculture will be ex-«AHiA members of the com...
...The grandstand of the Buffalo county fair grounds was packed to the rafters Tuesday night when La Follette spoke there, and the crowd applauded his speech enthusiastically throughout...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 39
