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In the early days, before tractors, radios and paved rural roads, it had been a kind of Wisconsin religion, and fierce-eyed, thick-maned Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette was its prophet. When he railed against the "interests" and Wall Street, when he called for public ownership of railroads...
But to the nation as a whole, La Follette the elder was a radical. Twice he bolted the G.O.P. to raise the Progressive banner and seek the presidency. Twice he was rejected. Wisconsin Progressivism remained a rip tide of political thought in the Republican sea. To be elected, La Follette...
But the new wave of Progressivism toppled almost as soon as it surged. Many of the old Progressive ideals became fact under the New Deal, and Bob La Follette Jr. was no fierce-eyed prophet. A Democratic-Republican coalition broke Progressive control in Wisconsin; Phil was defeated as governor and...
"I think, looking back nearly forty years, to those days when Roosevelt and La Follette and a thousand little Roosevelts and La Follettes in state houses and legislatures, in city halls and country towns, were cleaning those dirty, economic and political stables of the ancient giants who followed the Civil...
To make his bid, Charlie invited the 24 top GOPsters from his district to a dinner. Four showed up. Charlie La Follette cried: "The chips are down, the battle lines are drawn." But to most observers it just looked as if the Hoosier G.O.P. had drawn its head back into...