Robert M. La Follette

In the autumn of that year, the Democrats won a clear majority of the House of Representatives and began an open battle with President Taft by demanding an immediate downward revision of the tariff.

the rise of the progressive republicans preparatory to the campaign of nineteen twelve the dissenters within the republican party added the prefix progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of mr daft As early as January 21, 1911, they formed a progressive Republican League at the home of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and launched an attack on the Taft measures and policies.

In October, they endorsed Mr.

La Follette as the logical Republican candidate and appealed to the party for support.

The controversy over the tariff had grown into a formidable revolt against the occupant of the White House.

roosevelt in the field after looking on for a while ex-president roosevelt took a hand in the fray soon after his return in nineteen ten from a hunting trip to africa and a tour in europe he made a series of addresses in which he formulated a progressive programme in a speech in kansas he favored regulation of the trusts a graduated income tax bearing heavily on great fortunes tariff revision schedule by schedule conservation of natural resources labor legislation the direct primary and the recall of elective officials in an address before the ohio state constitutional convention in february nineteen twelve he endorsed the initiative and referendum and announced a doctrine known as the recall of judicial decisions This was a new and radical note in American politics.

An ex-president of the United States proposed that the people at the polls should have the right to reverse the decision of a judge who set aside any act of a state legislature passed in the interests of social welfare.

The progressive Republicans, impressed by these addresses, turned from La Follette to Roosevelt, and on February 24th, induced him to come out openly as a candidate against Taft for the Republican nomination.

And so we need to think about what is the broader political and public case we wanna make so that if you're gonna lose in court, you need to lose in a way that is building more and more, uh, a, a bigger and bigger movement to in fact reform the court, and that's the model of the, of progressive change, right? Um, the New Deal only happens in part because FDR, you know, confronts the court.

That only happens because actually for 20 years prior, progressives were advocating for a lot of these social policies, but also were, uh, mobilizing against what they called our judicial oligarchy, right? Robert La Follette run for president in the '20s, uh, as the author of that book, and that's a center part, centerpiece of his, uh, agenda.

And so I say that to say, um, bringing the court back into its proper role of, you know, responding to individual disputes as opposed to being the super legislature that rules all of us [laughs], bringing the court back into its proper role is one of the preconditions for actually achieving this vision of a more, um, uh, equitable government.

So part of this agenda calls for a boldness that would require a court to expose, uh, the problems in our judicial-

Preparatory to the campaign of 1912, the dissenters within the Republican Party added the prefix Progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of Mr. Taft.

As early as January 21st, 1911, they formed a Progressive Republican League at the home of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and launched an attack on the Taft measures and policies.

In October, they endorsed Mr.

La Follette as the logical Republican candidate and appealed to the party for support.

The controversy over the tariff had grown into a formidable revolt against the occupant of the White House.

Roosevelt in the field.

This was a new and radical note in American politics.

An ex-President of the United States proposed that the people at the polls should have the right to reverse the decision of a judge who set aside any act of a state legislature passed in the interests of social welfare.

In other words, they're regarded as the same kind of beasts.

And the quote from La Follette, FDR is trying to whitewash the monsters in Moscow.

These are atheists from the point of view of the United States in 1941.

They do not have all the facts of what Stalin's NKVD has done in the Baltic states or in Poland or in Finland.

Preparatory to the campaign of 1912, the dissenters within the Republican Party added the prefix progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of Mr. Taft.

As early as January 21, 1911, they formed a Progressive Republican League at the home of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and launched an attack on the Taft measures and policies.

in october they endorsed mr la follette as the logical republican candidate and appealed to the party for support the controversy over the tariff had grown into a formidable revolt against the occupant of the white house roosevelt in the field after looking on for a while ex-president roosevelt took a hand in the fray soon after his return in nineteen ten from a hunting trip to africa and a tour in europe he made a series of addresses in which he formulated a progressive program in a speech in kansas he favored regulation of the trusts a graduated income tax bearing heavily on great fortunes tariff revision schedule by schedule conservation of natural resources labor legislation the direct primary and the recall of elective officials in an address before the ohio state constitutional convention in february nineteen twelve he endorsed the initiative and referendum and announced a doctrine known as the recall of judicial decisions this was a new and radical note in american politics an ex-president of the united states proposed that the people at the polls should have the right to reverse the decision of a judge who set aside any act of a state legislature passed in the interests of social welfare The progressive Republicans, impressed by these addresses, turned from La Follette to Roosevelt, and on February 24th, induced him to come out openly as a candidate against Taft for the Republican nomination.

a split in the Republican Party.

The country then witnessed the strange spectacle of two men who had once been close companions engaged in a bitter rivalry to secure a majority of the delegates to the Republican convention to be held at Chicago.

The remedy offered in this case was again more democracy, namely the abolition of the party convention and the adoption of the direct primary.

Candidates were no longer to be chosen by secret conferences.

Any member of a party was to be allowed to run for any office, to present his name to his party by securing signatures to a petition and to submit his candidacy to his fellow partisans at a direct primary an election within the party in this movement governor la follette of wisconsin took the lead and his state was the first in the union to adopt the direct primary for state-wide purposes the idea spread rapidly in the west more slowly in the east The public, already angered against the bosses, grasped eagerly at it.

In the autumn of that year, the Democrats won a clear majority of the House of Representatives and began an open battle with President Taft by demanding an immediate downward revision of the tariff.

the rise of the progressive republicans preparatory to the campaign of nineteen twelve the dissenters within the republican party added the prefix progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of mr daft As early as January 21, 1911, they formed a progressive Republican League at the home of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and launched an attack on the Taft measures and policies.

In October, they endorsed Mr.

La Follette as the logical Republican candidate and appealed to the party for support.

The controversy over the tariff had grown into a formidable revolt against the occupant of the White House.

roosevelt in the field after looking on for a while ex-president roosevelt took a hand in the fray soon after his return in nineteen ten from a hunting trip to africa and a tour in europe he made a series of addresses in which he formulated a progressive program in a speech in kansas he favored regulation of the trusts a graduated income tax bearing heavily on great fortunes tariff revision schedule by schedule conservation of natural resources labor legislation the direct primary and the recall of elective officials in an address before the ohio state constitutional convention in february nineteen twelve he endorsed the initiative and referendum and announced a doctrine known as the recall of judicial decisions this was a new and radical note in american politics an ex-president of the united states proposed that the people at the polls should have the right to reverse the decision of a judge who set aside any act of a state legislature passed in the interests of social welfare The progressive Republicans, impressed by these addresses, turned from La Follette to Roosevelt, and on February 24th, induced him to come out openly as a candidate against Taft for the Republican nomination.

a split in the Republican Party.

The country then witnessed the strange spectacle of two men who had once been close companions engaged in a bitter rivalry to secure a majority of the delegates to the Republican convention to be held at Chicago.

In 1910, the insurgents went so far as to join with the Democrats in a movement to break the Speaker's sway by ousting him from the Rules Committee and depriving him of the power to appoint its members.

the storm was brewing in the autumn of that year the democrats won a clear majority of the house of representatives and began an open battle with president taft by demanding an immediate downward revision of the tariff the rise of the progressive republicans preparatory to the campaign of nineteen twelve the dissenters within the republican party added the prefix progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of mr taft as early as january twenty first nineteen eleven they formed a progressive republican league at the home of senator la follette of wisconsin and launched an attack on the taft measures and policies in october they endorsed mr la follette as the logical republican candidate and appealed to the party for support the controversy over the tariff had grown into a formidable revolt against the occupant of the white house roosevelt in the field after looking on for a while ex-president roosevelt took a hand in the fray soon after his return in nineteen ten from a hunting trip to africa and a tour in europe he made a series of addresses in which he formulated a progressive program in a speech in kansas he favored regulation of the trusts a graduated income tax bearing heavily on great fortunes tariff revision schedule by schedule conservation of natural resources labor legislation the direct primary and the recall of elective officials in an address before the ohio state constitutional convention in february nineteen twelve he endorsed the initiative and referendum and announced a doctrine known as the recall of judicial decisions this was a new and radical note in american politics an ex-president of the united states proposed that the people at the polls should have the right to reverse the decision of a judge who set aside any act of a state legislature passed in the interests of social welfare The progressive Republicans, impressed by these addresses, turned from La Follette to Roosevelt, and on February 24th, induced him to come out openly as a candidate against Taft for the Republican nomination.

a split in the Republican Party.

The country then witnessed the strange spectacle of two men who had once been close companions engaged in a bitter rivalry to secure a majority of the delegates to the Republican convention to be held at Chicago.

There were two significant strains of that.

A famous senator named Bob La Follette, Fighting Bob, who was also a third party presidential candidate.

and what's called the Sewer Socialists of Milwaukee, who Francesca Hong drew on both of these traditions.

And I think she tapped into something that had been somewhat dormant in Wisconsin, but never really vanished.

And we had a very large group, historically speaking, of courageous presidents and legislators, not just FDR and Teddy Roosevelt, but others as well.

Robert La Follette, the great Wisconsin progressive, others at the state level.

But this was all part of the wave.

You see, I think the United States, I think America, does have a kind of equilibrating power and force in it.