Word: follettee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foolish the army which fires all its ammunition at the beginning of a battle. Wise the political party which saves up until the eve of election some important announcements, testimonials, recruits. Last week, William Gibbs McAdoo, unreconciled Wilsonian Democrat, commended the prize offered by Motor-maker William Crapo Durant for...
¶ Less rigidly partisan than the Hearst web of 26 newspapers is the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, also 26 strong. The Scripps-Howard chain supported La Follette in 1924 and decided to support Hoover without "knocking" Smith this year. Scripps-Howard is wet. These facts explained the appearance, in...
On board were four tons of campaign literature, a reference library. 43 newspapermen, eight photographers and a group of the Nominee's best friends and advisers. He was bound, via Chicago, for Omaha to speak out on farm relief. He was going into nine states, carefully selected on the...
Perhaps Governor Zimmerman's endorsement by the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League helped ruin him. Wisconsin is an oldtime Wet. Perhaps the Hon. Zimmerman's former membership in the La Follette contingent helped split Candidate Beck's vote. Perhaps the La Follette grasp on...
The equivocal upshot of a Kohler beside a La Follette on the Republican ticket left people wondering where the balance of Wisconsin power lay for the Presidential election. Senator John James Elaine, the La Follette colleague, had said: "All my friends will vote for Governor Smith." On the other hand...