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...Republican side, no less pronounced characters took a hand in the proceedings. In the first row on the aisle???appropriate seat ? Senator La Follette appeared, tight-lipped and bushy-haired, in neat frock coat, and slightly stooped, with rather a genial air. His desk was a frequent stopping place for Senators meandering about the chamber. With a critical smile he watched the progress of legislation, and then, when the moment came, stepped forward with an impassioned speech about the starving women and children of Germany. Stepping into the aisle, gesticulating fiercely, he paced about. Half a dozen times...
General Wood came through the rear door, followed by three officers in uniform, one of them his son Osborne, who acts as his aide. The party proceeded up the aisle???no applause, no hisses, no gestures?silence. General Wood read his 5,000-word message without interruption. When he had finished, the audience rose once more. Up the long aisle the Governor walked with his aides? silence, dead silence...
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