LENROOT WANTS 'NO MAN HOSTILE TO COOLIDGE' SENT TO SENATE
Oshkosh, WI (JFK+50) On August 13, 1925, Senator Irvine Lenroot*(R-Wisconsin) called upon the voters of his state to "see that no man hostile to President (Calvin) Coolidge) be sent to the U.S. Senate."
The Senator's call concern is for "the seat made vacant by the death of Senator Robert "Bob" La Follette. He claims that the progressive leaders of Wisconsin "seek to divide our people."
Lenroot adds that Wisconsin progressives "would destroy our Constitution and make Congress supreme."
JFK+50 NOTE
Robert M. La Follette, Jr. succeeded his father & served as U.S. Senator 1925-1947. RML Jr. opposed many of Coolidge's policies. He was the last major Progressive Party politician in the US Senate.
*Irvine Luther Lenroot (1869-1949) was born in Superior, Wisconsin & served in the US House of Representatives 1909-1918, US Senate 1918-1927 & as Associate Justice of the US Court of Customs & Patent Appeals 1929-1944.
SOURCE
"Lenroot Assails Progressive Aims," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 13, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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