FIGHTING BOB SAYS PROGRESSIVES CONTROL BALANCE OF POWER & INTEND TO USE IT
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On November 18. 1922, Senator Robert M. LaFollette* (R-Wisconsin) announced that progressives have come to the Nation's Capital to "translate the result of the elections into legislation."
Senator LaFollette said...
"The time has now come for the organization of a well-defined group co-operating in support of accepted progressive principles and policies."
The Senator intends to fight to limit President Warren G. Harding's ship subsidy bill and to oppose other administration proposals.
According to LaFollette, progressives will "control the balance of power" and they "intend to use it."
JFK+50 NOTE
Professor Erik Olssen says most historians agree that progressives of the period 1922-1929 held the balance of power and played a key role in shaping new policies regarding water power and agriculture.
*Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" LaFollette, Sr. (1855-1925) served in the U.S. House of Representatives 1885-1892, as Governor of Wisconsin 1901-1906, & in the U.S. Senate 1906-1925.
RML was presidential nominee of the Progressive Party in 1924. He has been called "the most celebrated figure in Wisconsin history."
SOURCES
"LaFollette Upon Warpath In Name of Progressives," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., November 18, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"The Progressive Group In Congress, 1922-1929," by Erik Olssen, The Historians, Vol. 42, No. 2, February 1980, Taylor and Francis, Ltd., www.jstor.org/
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