ADVICE TO MILLIONAIRES
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 writer...
...himself...
...In the years since 1924, wc have corresponded with him occasionally and have watched his career...
...Fighting Bob...
...he later attended George Washlnc-ton university for onp year and finished law in the University of Wisconsin in 1922...
...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 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...
...Wc admire the name of La Follette...
...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...
...We love "Fiery Phil...
...In 1923...
...Educated in the public srhools...
...They have two children, Robert Marion and Judith Bason...
...than United States Senator Robert Marion Jr...
...he married Isabcll Bason, a fellow student at the university...
...There, several thousand students and common folks from the farms and small towns, 'round about, gathered to hear "Fiery Phil" ex-toll 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 believe in him—we hope he will be the next governor of Wisconsin...
...In 1924 he was elected district attorney of Dane county, and gained recognition for the vigorous administration of that office...
...a son of Robert Marion La Follette and Belle Case La Follrtle...
...He served in the army, helping to fight the war whirh his illustrious father urged that the United States not enter...
...right or wrong with his sympathies on the side of the common people...
...is a La Follette and a progressive—courageous in his thinking and action, and...
...Since 1926 he has been lecturer in law at his alma mater...
...graduating with honors...
...So we made an arrangement with Mayor Schleiter for police protection and engaged a vacant lot, a half block oft Pearson's sacred domain...
...that folks say is more like his father...
...But...
...Phillip F. La Follette was born at Madison, May 8. 1897...
...Because we know him, because we admire him...
...Later, the students were polled by a straw vote and La Follette won...
...a La Follette, like father or not...
...that this writer first met the boy...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 39
