PHIL SETS NEW SPEECH RECORD AS CAMPAIGNER
Peavey, Lynn
phil sets new speech record as campaigner Carries Issues to People In 250 Addresses All Over Wisconsin on Stump and Radio LARGEST ISTMBER HEAR HIS TALKS Demonstrates Great Vigor and Endurance in...
...Friends of Phil La Follette have been amazed at the endurance and vitality demonstrated by the young Progressive leader in his long arduous campaign...
...Phil La Pollette is still battling with the zest and the fire that characterized his opening speeches after two months of it...
...phil sets new speech record as campaigner Carries Issues to People In 250 Addresses All Over Wisconsin on Stump and Radio LARGEST ISTMBER HEAR HIS TALKS Demonstrates Great Vigor and Endurance in Hot Campaign...
...La Follette does not appear hardy and strong...
...But the renting of hails costs money so La Follette has continued the strain of speaking In the open air throughout his campaign...
...to his home at the La Follette Maple Bluff farm after his final speech of the campaign at the University gymnasium here Monday night, "is -Brill have delivered 250 speeches in ' days cf campaigning...
...If any ."tranger to the game of prac-oal politic...
...In spite of having n* for more than 250 hours dur-i he last two months against the •ur, the roar of motors in passing .obilcs and the whistling of loco's...
...Kohler'a speeches...
...As a result of scores of hours of speaking to huge crowds in the heat - .he cold of the open air, La Fol-i . voice has grown heavy and ; But it does not "crack...
...La Folletle's most Intimate friends don't answer the question...
...La Follette still speaks with and without a strained tone in .•is . olee...
...It will never cease to be a wonder in Wisconsin how "Old Bob" stood such a terrific grind In his many campaigns In Wisconsin for 35 years, and how the two La Follette boys arc standing it today...
...They are as much amazed at the vitality and endurance La Follette demonstrates as the people who meet him...
...After two months of the most grill-r.g campaign Wisconsin has ever witnessed, La Follette is still going strong...
...The previous speech-making record ::' the state was set by Sen...
...Halls are Expensive Much of the strain that it has been La Follctto's lot to bear during the present campaign might have been saved him if he had been able to speak in halls and auditoriums...
...To Beach 250 Speeches When the Progressive standard bearer return...
...In all probability their indomitable spirit, invincible will and the powerful driving force in their characters Is meet largely responsible...
...Of a natural frail appearance and slight of build...
...They can't...
...The governor is worn and fatigued after less than a tnonth cf campaigning...
...As the ••=suh of his vigorous campaign that ear, Blaine was the only member of .he La Toilette ticket whjb did Yiot go down in defeat because of his record of opposition to United States entry into the World war...
...In contrast with La Follette Is his opponent who began his campaign just 29 days after the young Progressive leader delivered his opening speech at S.auk City...
...La Follette has set a new all-..t.e record for political Badgerdom in he number of speeches he has delivered...
...John J. 5'jiine who delivered nearly 230 addresses during the campaign of 1918 i hen Blaine was the Progressive candidate for attorney general...
...So worried are they over his condition that efforts are being made to cancel some of Gov...
...Many thousands of people have shak-i hands with Phil La Follette during ie present campaign, and have talked him personally...
...The effort which i Follette has made to meet his large owds personally has been as great i that he has put forth in his dynamic M-eches...
...The constant strain of speaking to large crowd in the open air has been slowly sapping away his strength until the closing days of the campaign see him a little tired, but apparently as fit for a political fray as the day he opened his campaign...
...intimate friends of the Stalwart candidate admit that their candidate is "all in...
...La Follette Jr., too, is a hardy campaigner, and can stand up under the arduous grind of a vigorous campaign that would send an ordinary nnn to a hospital...
...If they have a pain or an ache from their terrific efforts in campaigning, not even their most intimate friends ever know about it...
...Bertdc speaking to the largest num-xt cf citizens ever reached by the ">ice of a candidate for any office in he state's history during a single cam-;aign...
...believes it is not a grill-g task to make from four to nine ttroches and shake hands with several .ousand people in a day, he should >>end a d&y wlth a man ''ho is doing Phil La Follette's right arm and 3nd are swollen to nearly half again : natural size from the terrific " . ¦¦ r. of shaking hands with the i: i.js which have packed about him .i:ir-r all of his speeches His arm probably aches after an hour of shaking hands with strong men who have just come from the fields, from' the factory or from the blacksmith shop...
...Although he hag delivered considerably less than half the number of speeches that have been made by La Follette...
...Kohler Reported 4All In' By LYNX PEAVEY Through the ether of the radio and from the stump, the deep silvery voice ¦>f Phil La Follette has been heard iiring the two months of the present -ubernatbrial campaign by more Wis-¦rnsin citizens than ever before heard . political speaker during a single cam-xjign in all the colorful political his-ory of the state...
...La Follette ¦pened his campaign on the morning July 15 at Sauk City...
...And > its characteristic ring that car-home the earnestness and em-1 - of his words...
...He has the physical strength of a little giant, and musck hat an athlete would envy...
...After watching La Follette in action on the platform and later shaking hands with as high as two and three thousand people, many ask the question, "How does he keep,It up all day and week after week...
...But no complaint ever comes from a La Follette...
...But to shake his hand or to see him in action is another matter...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
