Book/Printed Material La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences,
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Image 1 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences,- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 2 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 3 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 2869 8-B LA FOLLETTE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences BY ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE ILLUSTRATED LC MADISON, WIS. THE ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE CO. 1913- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 4 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, {Begin deleted text} E664 L16L16 Copy 2 {End deleted text} E664 .L16L16 Copyright, 1911, 1913, by ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 5 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, v CONTENTS PAGE Introduction ix CHAPTER I. Political Beginnings 3 II. In the House of Representatives 49 III. The Reed Congress and the New National Issues 91 IV. The Crucial Period of...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 6 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, vi XI. Why I Became a Candidate for the Presidency; Taft's Unavailability; A Complete History of Roosevelt's Course After His Return from Africa; Formation of the Organized Progressive Movement; Pressure for a...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 7 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, vii ILLUSTRATIONS Robert M. LaFollette Frontispiece FACING PAGE Birthplace 6 La Follette Family (from a daguerrotype) 12 La Follette at Nine Years of Age 18 President John R. Bascom 28 General George...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 8 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences,- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 9 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, ix INTRODUCTION IN THE preparation of this narrative I have no literary intent whatsoever. I am not writing for the sake of writing, nor for the mere purpose of relating the events...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 10 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, x We have long rested comfortably in this country upon the assumption that because our form of government was democratic, it was therefore automatically producing democratic results. Now, there is nothing mysteriously...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 11 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, xi environment have thrown me into this struggle, and have made me in some degree a pioneer in the Progressive movement. I am therefore writing my own story in these pages because...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 12 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, xii It is a pleasure to express my grateful appreciation of the valuable assistance which Mr. Ray Stannard Baker has given me in the revision of the manuscript for this work and...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 13 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF POLITICAL EXPERIENCES- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 14 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences,- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 15 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 3 CHAPTER I POLITICAL BEGINNINGS FEW young men who entered public life thirty years ago had any wide outlook upon affairs, or any general political ideas. They were drawn into politics just...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 16 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 4 in the first of many struggles with the political boss and the political machine which then controlled, absolutely, the affairs of the State of Wisconsin. I was twenty-five years old that...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 17 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 5 To an impecunious young lawyer almost without clients, the district attorneyship of Dane County, paying at that time the munificent salary of $800 a year with an allowance of $50 for...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 18 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 6 I was small of stature and thin—at that time. I weighed only one hundred and twenty pounds—and I looked even younger than I really was. Nor was I then in good...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 19 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, LA FOLLETTE'S BIRTHPLACE Primrose, Dane County- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 20 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences,- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 21 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 7 settler from Indiana. I knew farm ways and farm life, and many of the people who were not acquainted with me personally knew well from what family I came—and that it...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 22 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 8 in the state-house at which there were speeches by William F. Vilas, the foremost citizen of Wisconsin and afterward United States Senator, by members of the university faculty, and others. All...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 23 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 9 to give me; but I had not learned the very first principles of the political game as it was then played—indeed, as it is still played in a greater part of...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 24 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 10 He was a good representative of old-time politics: the politics of force and secret management. He was absolute dictator in his own territory; he could make candidates, and he could unmake...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 25 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 11 had better go to work, that I had not learned the first lesson in politics. He told me who the next district attorney of Dane County would be—and it was not...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 26 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 12 were to be chosen by the students for some public occasion. At that time college life was dominated by two secret fraternities; they controlled the student meetings, and directed the elections....- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 27 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, THE LA FOLLETTE FAMILY Taken in Primrose Township, Wisconsin. Robert, about three years old, on his mother's knee; his sister Ellen, now Mrs. Dean Eastman; his sister Josephine, now the wife of...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 28 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences,- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 29 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 13 was so secure in his undisputed supremacy and I was so young and inexperienced that he did not take me seriously nor realize until afterward how thoroughly my work was done....- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 30 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 14 at the crisis I owed my nomination, which came on the fifth ballot. This failure of his well-oiled machine astonished the Boss beyond measure, and my fight for the nomination was...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 31 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 15 The people had turned their attention almost wholly to business affairs. The West was to be settled, railroads constructed, towns founded, manufacturing industries built up, and money accumulated. In short, it...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 32 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 16 orator I remember to have heard Zach Chandler of Michigan, a great figure in those days—a sort of old Roman, of powerful and rugged personality, whose sarcastic flings at the Democratic...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 33 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 17 summer after I was graduated. He was a very handsome man, of fine presence, dignity and power; splendid diction and a rather lofty eloquence. I do not remember a suggestion of...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 34 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 18 and labor, the control of banks and railroads, and the disposal of public lands. In 1876 the Greenback party came into the field and rose to much prominence on a radical...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 35 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, BOYHOOD PICTURE OF LA FOLLETTE Taken at nine years of age, while he was attending district school at Argyle, Wisconsin, a country town forty miles south of Madison.- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 36 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences,- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
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Image 37 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 19 from the people, the people should afterward have the right to control the use of the highway. It was this simple reasoning which was subsequently adopted by legislatures and courts. As...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 38 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 20 election in 1874 of a Democratic governor. A just and comprehensive law for regulating the railroads was passed and a strong railroad commission was instituted. It was then, indeed, that the...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 39 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 21 of this law will ruin the property of the company and feeling assured of the correctness of the opinions of the eminent counsel who have examined the question, the directors feel...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913
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Image 40 of La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experiences, 22 From that moment in the seventies—excepting once, and then only for a period of two years when the agricultural and dairy interests defeated the corporations, and elected William D. Hoard governor—until...- Contributor: La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)
- Date: 1913