LIFE HISTORY OF
LAFOLLETTE IS
GIVEN IN DETAIL
(Continued from Page One'
18S4. becoming at 29 years of age the
youngest member of tlie House.
He was appointed to a place on the
Ways and Means Committee by Speak
er Reed, and worked with William
McKinley, then a member of the same
committee, in framing the McKinley
tariff law. His first speech in the
House was against “pork barrel” riv
er and habor appropriations, and, by
blocking or amending bills sponsored
by the leaders he early classified him
self as an “insurgent.”
Elected governor of Wisconsin in
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1901 on a reform platform, he launch
ed a fight against railroad influence
in state politics, and also led the move
ment for the direct primary law, ad
opted by the Wisconsin legislature ir
1904. He was elected to the Senate
the same year, and resigned from the
Governorship.
As a Presidential candidate Senatoi
La Follette began an active campaigi:
for progressive support in Decembei
1911. but while speaking in Philadel
phia, following February, he collapsed
after a long address and many of his
supporters turned to Roosevelt. He
continued his campaign, hut it was a
hopeless enterprise. ,
During his early service in the Sen
ate, he won prominence by repeated
forays against “special privilege” and
“special interests” in tariff and other
legislation. He broke with President
Taft in 1911 and opposed the adminis
tration's Canadian reciprocity treaty.
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■ He was an early advocate of woman
1 suffrage, labor legislation and taxa
■ tion of the wealthy classes. Later
- he advocated recall of judges and ju
i dicial decisions, and came out in fa
i vor of nationalizing the railways.
' Included in the long list of meas
ures against which he fought stub
bornly were the Aldrich-Vreeland
currency act, the Commerce Court
act, and the PayneiAldrich tariff
• measure. He made a speech lasting
four days advocating the unseating
of Senator Lorimer of Illinois, and
was prominent in the Ballinger-Pin
chot conservation fight as a critic
of President Taft and a supporter
of Mr. Pinchot.
Opposing American intervention
in the World War, Senator LaFol
lette urged a peace conference of
neutrals. He took a leading part in
the spectacular filibuster against the
armed ship bill, asked for by Presi
dent Wilson, and encompassed its
defeat early in 1917. He was among
the famous “twelve wilful men” nam
ed by President Wilson as obstruc
tionists.
After voting against the Ameri
can war declaration, Senator LaFol
lette also opposed the selective draft
act, but supported the enormous war
appropriations and other bills. He
sponsored many “free speech” pro
posals, fought ratification of the
Treaty of Versailles, and in many
long speeches after the war urged
amnesty for those convicted under
the espionage act.
j During 1917 the Senate received
! a mass of petitions demanding Sena
tor LaFollette's expulsion, principally
because of a speech at St. Paul to
a Non-Partisan League convention.
The Minnesota public safety com
mission was among those demanding
his unseating, and the Wisconsi
legislature passed resolutions of cen
sure. It was during this political
period that Mr. LaFollette was hung
in effigy and denounced by resolu
tions of civic and other organiza
tions thruout the country. An inves
tigation of the St. Paul speech, bas
ed on the war and America’s part
in it, finally was made by the Sen
ate privileges and elections commit
tee. Senator La Follette submitted
copies of the speech and other evi
dence, and charged that he had been
misquoted, a charge admitted by some
of the reporters, and the Senate in
quiry was dropped in February, 1918.
Always a champion of labor, the
La Follette seamen’s law, designed
to safeguard the interests of Amer
ican seamen, probably is the most im
portant measure bearing his name.
Labor formed the nucleus of the sup
port to liis independent candidacy
for the Presidency.
La Follette had many important
committee assignments in the Sen
ate. For years he was a veteran
member of the finance and inter
state commerce committees, and as
chairman of the manufacturers com
mittee he conducted an extensive
investigation into gasoline prices. He
was author of the resolution under
which the Senate inquiry into the
leasig of Teapot Dome and other na
val oil reserves was undertaken.
Senator La Follette took a promi
nent part in the framing of tariff
and tax legislation, fighting the Ford
ney-McCumber tariff measure of the
Harding administration and opposing
many of the changes proposed in the
internal tax law during the Sixty-Sev
enth congress and the first session
of the Sixty-Eighth congress. He
also was active in opposing President
Harding’s shipping bill.
Ill health handicapped LaFollette
somewhat after his re-election to the
Senate in 1922. In the summer and
fall of 1923, during a tour of Europe,
he contracted a severe cold. After
his return to the United States he
suffered an attack of grippe. He
was unable to attend the opening
of the Sixty-Eighth congress but
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from liis sick bed he directed the
organization fight waged by the Re
publican insurgents in both House
and Senate. He returned to his of
fice later, but soon fell victim to an
other cold which confined him to his
bed and eventually developed - into
pneumonia.
[Recovering, he returned to the Sen
ate floor during the closing days of
the session, just prior to the national
conventions, and demanded, among
other things, that congress remain
in session to pass legislation design
ed to benefit farmers and labor. Al
though in a weakened condition, he
delivered a lengthy speech, urging a
loan to Germany, with much of his
old-time vigor. This led to the be
lief among his friends that after all
he would be in physical shape to
conduct a campaign, if decided to
become a presidential candidate.
The domestic and private life of
Senator La Follette might be term
ed ideal. At the age of 2<> he mar
ried Miss Belle Cas of Bara boo, Wis.
•and from that moment she became
his political as well as his personal
partner. She took an active part
in all his campaigns, served as his
secretary while he was in the House
and aided him in preparing his
speeches. They had four children,
Philip, now a partner in the Sena
tor’s law firm at Madison; Fola, the
wife of George Middleton, New York
playwright; Mrs. Mary Suclier, and
Robert La Follette, jr.
For almost a year when the young
est boy was ill during the war, Sena
tor La Follette was his nurse, car
rying him in his arms for hours and
finally winning a desperate fight
against death.
Marathon
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The Senator's friends and support
ers in his home state were legion,
while in the Senate he numbered
among his personal friends some of
those he most harshly attacked on
the stump. Among th'se was the
late Senator Pemose, of Pennsyl
vania, who was a cicsv ejmvanic:. of
I is W isconsin erkic In :h.j Senate
for a long time pieced hi,; his death.
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Mondays and Thursdays
A train leaves Seward at 7:30 a. m.
Sundays for Anchorage and interme
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—
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
8 P. M.
Wednesdays and Saturdays
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Scheduled Sail =
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June 21st E
June 2S =
July 5th
July 12th =
July 19th E
July 26th
Scheduled Scheduled
Lv. Seattle Ar. Seward
June 13th June 20th
June 20 June 27
June 27th July 4th
July 4th July 11th
July 11th July 18th
c. . , JuJy 18tb July 25th JU1, ,Dtu
feteamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
= m Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska. ~
| NOTE—Beginning with the S. S. Yukon June 7th, steamers will not 1
~ lea\e Seward earlier than 4 o’clock p. m. Sunday, sailing date.
E Alaska due Seward June 20 will go to Seldovia and Ouzinkie before E
sailing south. Probably retu rn to Seward sometime Sunday.
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To encourage travel to the Interior City during the above
activities, The Alaska Railroad is making a special ROUND
TRIP Excursion Rate of one and one-third the normal one
way fare. Sale dates on Special Excursion Tickets from
points south of Curry will be June 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st and
22nd; the last sale date from Curry and stations north will
be June 23rd. Final return limit on all tickets June 28th.
TRI WEEKLY SERVICE
E The Tri-Weekly Passenger Train Service, between Seward
and Fairbanks will become effective on Sunday, June 21st; E
and this service will enable travelers to Fairbanks to extend
their stay to the morning of Friday, June 26th, before return
ing home. For detailed information, confer with Mr. E. L.
Sweek, Agent, Seward Depot.
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