Show LA DEFEAT after dominating wisconsin politics for many years the la toilette faction suffered a crushing defeat in the recent primary governor philip F la follette was beaten by about votes in his race for the republican by former governor walter J kohler senator john J blame also classed as a progressive was by john B chappie a young editor who has vigorously fought what he calls la follette socialism chappies majority was about these defeats following that of senator brookhart in iowa seem to indicate that the voters are getting fed up on so called progressive policies which are really socialistic in their tendencies den cies the most active group of this class in the united states senate are the progressive republicans headed by boms of nebraska and including young bob la follette blame brookler and several others who while maintaining their republican status sufficiently to hold their committee assignments oppose their party leaders oftener than they support them in matters of legislation this group favors government operation or heavy taxation of industries and government paternalism generally if these sena tors had had their way in the last session of congress the already i heavy tax burden would have been enormously increased senator la follette for example advocated a bond issue jor an extension of various government activities primary results in wisconsin and iowa indicate that the taxpayers are getting out of patience with this brand of alleged statesmanship |