PRESS COMMENT ON BADGER PRIMARY
Press Comment On Badger Primary Philip La Follette. 33-year-old son of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr., one of America's greatest statesmen, was nominated to the governorship on the...
...And the Hoover administration never was very popular In Wisconsin...
...They hope to take .sufficient votes away from Norris to beat him...
...The election was perhaps the most severely contested one in the history of the state...
...23} --Enclosed you will Unci a check In the sum of $1.50 for one*year's subscription lo The Progressive...
...Business depression had something to do with it...
...From The Houston Chronicle) The victory of Philip La Follette in Wisconsin, most striking political triumph of the Tuesday primaries, is a. sensational tribute to the power of a name...
...Those forces which Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska has so courageously opposed, because of his conviction that this part of the country can not be served by complying with the Eastern interests which dominate governmental policies, have thrust an indoixmdcnt Republican candidate—a woman-Into the race against him...
...The undoubted honesty and Integrity and devotion to public service which so distinguished Robert La Follette may have been transferred to his politician sons...
...It has opened the eyes of many |>cop!c...
...But we have here the unusual spectacle of a great commonwealth elevating to the governor's chair a 33-year-old man who has proved himself an acceptable attorney but who certainly could not compare with the middle-aged Kohler for all-around capacity and business experience...
...Elections like this give the people renewed hope for more democracy...
...I nin pr->ud of the great victory we Progressives have fought and won...
...Nomination on that ticket is virtually the same as election in the state of Wisconsin...
...Rncine, Wos., Sept...
...American...
...The big Interests of America would rather retire Norris than any other man in public life...
...The La Follette family's influence did not die with the death of the great senator, a few years ago, and it will be very interesting to follow up the work of the two La Follette brothers—Robert M., w-ho has been U. S. senator since the death of his father, and the other, Philip La Follette, who will shortly become governor of a great state...
...It Is a crusade for his section of the country and he Is battling for it this year as he never did before...
...Politics with lilm Is not a game...
...These young men are carrying out the principles of their father...
...33-year-old son of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr., one of America's greatest statesmen, was nominated to the governorship on the Republican ticket in Wisconsin Tuesday...
...I deem It a great pleasure to subscribe for this, paper, as I have been a Progressive for the past twenty years and always contribute to their cause...
...The Interests do not fight, with' feather-dusters...
...Ben Marvin...
...And perhaps they are right...
...Askov (Minn...
...They are a credit to their father and mother...
...win rpnomimillon In a state where the tide was running strongly ln favor of progressive principles...
...And the younger brother made an excellent record as district attorney of Dane County...
...I never surmised that this paper was as useful as It, was in the last, campaign...
...And so we find the sons ruling where the father was supreme...
...A respect for constituted authority is theirs, also a high regard for the elder La Follette whose loyal adherents they were...
...As such he was anathema to the La Follette political machine, which always-looks with suspicion upon any man who has over succeeded In a business way...
...The claims of a Walter J Kohler paled into insignificance before the consideration the voters felt due a La Follette...
...Kohler had made a good record at Madison, had signed every bill passed by the legislature, yet his ability and worth went unrecognized and the electorate crowded to the polls and voted for the living son of a father woo made so definite an im>, press upon the political life of his state that hi* children seem fated to continue the dynasty...
...Robert La Follette, the elder, is dead, but he is still an idol in the state which sent him twice to the governor's chair, which selected him four times as United States senator, and loyally voted him in 1924 when he was a candidate for the presidency...
...The man Philip Ln Follette defeated made a good executive, but could not...
...Certainly the senator of that name has filled his father's shoes acceptably...
...They use clubs...
...Philip La Follette's nomination insures his election In a state which has seen the democratic party disappear into the ranks of the radical progressive sect that appeared on the political horizon of the Northwest when the elder La Follette went from the district attorneyship of Dane County into the governor's office at Madison...
...La Follette had little in the way of money against the wealth of Kohler who spent it very freely two years ago also when he was elected to the governoship...
...And evidently they are convinced that of all the Independent Republican senators running this fall NorrLs is their most promising target...
...The electorate of Wisconsin still worships at his shrine...
...Wichita Eagle...
...These senators, with Norris, stood for the Interests of their section, but no attempt, is being made by yie Interests to crush them...
...Of course Norris will have a desperate . light...
...Young La Follette faced the combined opposition of the power trust, the chain bank system, chain stores, and other predatory interests...
...The Progressives of Racine county, certainly did our part...
...Young La Follettc's opponent was Governor Walter J. Kohler, a very wealthy manufacturer...
...They are not trying to get Schall up in Minnesota or McMaster in South Dakota or Borah out in Idaho...
...Walter J. Kohler of Kohler was a millionaire, hence a "capitalist...
...But Norris himself Is not much on pillow-lights...
...For the past 34 years the name of La Follette has been one to conjure with in Wisconsin politics and 11 appears It will continue to be a magnet for the voters of the state in the future with the eldest son of "Fighting Bob" senior United States senator, filling his father's shoes and the younger in the governor's chair...
...Probably, too dynasties are not unwelcome to the Teutonic element of Wisconsin...
Vol. 1 • October 1930 • No. 44
