"THE WHOLE NATION VITAILY INTERESTED"
"The Whole Nation Vitally Interested" "If Senator La Follette is Not Returned to the Senate, It Will Be the Severest Blow That Ceuld Be Dealt the Progressive Movement Throughout the...
...I have received telegrams from certain citizens of Wisconsin criticising me for coming into this state...
...At no time in the last ten years has there been a man in Congress who has stood out so boldly as a leader of progressive thought and action as has Senator La Follette...
...I have felt that the question before the people of Wisconsin in the primaries was one in which every person in the United States who has genuine concern about government has a vital interest...
...It is a question of national importance, for if Senator La Follette is not returned to the United States Senate it will be the severest blow that could be dealt the progressive movement throughout the country...
...The Whole Nation Vitally Interested" "If Senator La Follette is Not Returned to the Senate, It Will Be the Severest Blow That Ceuld Be Dealt the Progressive Movement Throughout the Country" Extract frem a Speech at Ripon, Wisconsin, August 15, 1916 By GEORGE W. AORfl/S United States Senator from Nebraska SENATOR LA FOLLETTE today is the most feared man in Washington...
...The fine sense of justice which leads Senator La Follette always to vote as his conscience dictates will always cause criticism from machine politicians and bosses, whose interest it is, always, to have a man whose votes they can control...
...The machine politicians are all afraid of him because he is a man of great ability and a man they cannot control...
...It is a question in which the people of my own state of Nebraska are as keenly interested as are the people of Wisconsin...
Vol. 8 • August 1916 • No. 8
