New Britain herald., 1930-09-29
THIRD LA TOILETTE
 ACHIEVES VICTORY
Profits by Defeat, Battles Like
 Father and Brother

Madison, Wis, Sept. 29-Twenty years ago the county fair here was featured by a sort of amateur horse race, in which the sons of Madison people galloped their ponies around Q half-mile track. In this particular race a pony bearing a 13 year old jockey was far ahead as they turn ed into the home stretch. Then, only a few feet from the finish line, the pony stopped and threw it's rider.
 The youthful jockey was not daunted. Jumping to his feet, he seized the pony's reins, and literally dragged the balky beast over the finish line-winning first prize even though dismounted.
 That rider was Phil LaFollette; and the qualities of fight and deter imitation shown. in that action are still with him, and go far to explain his sweeping victory in the recent Wisconsin republican gubernatorial primary.
 Phil LaFollette, second son of "Old Bob" LaFollette and brother of Senator Young Bob" is fighter. That, since it runs in the family, is not unusual; but it is worth notic- ing, just the same, since it provides a key to the amazing political up- set by which LaFollette upset all predictions in the campaign just ended and won the nomination for the governorship by majority of l00,0 ,000 votes over Governor Walter J. kohler.
 Early last spring a progressive political leader called on Philip La Toilette and strongly advised him to stay out of the coming campaign, because all signs pointed to 8 sweep ing victory for Governor Kohler and there was no>sense in going out and asking for q licking.
 LaFollette refused to listen to him. Not Afraid to Run''
 NO one is going to say that l didn't run because l was afraid to be licked" he said.
 The LaFollettes know what vic tory is like-and they also know what it means to be overwhelm- | ingly beaten.
 During the war days Phil La | Toilette was a law student at the University of Wisconsin here. He saw his father, then a senator, hung 1 in effigy on the university campus | by jeering students, saw him con- demned by the state legislature and rebuked in a petition signed by most 1 of the members of the university | faculty.
 At the same time Young Bob", at Washington, saw his father | branded "a traitor" from the floor of the senate and in the nations press. and saw him socially ostra- cized and snubbed by his colleagues in the senate.
 Then, after the war, when the elder LaFollette ran for the presi- dency on a third party ticket, the | two sons saw him go down to a crushing defeat-a defeat that was followed within a few years by his | death.
 So defeat is nothing new to the LaFollettes. and when the 33 year old Phil entered the gubernatorial campaign last spring he was ready to take a beating with a good grace.
 Odds Favored Opponent During the first half of the cam paign nothing happened to disturb i the current belief that another La Toilette catastrophe was in prospect. Even up to 30 days before the pri- mary political experts were conced- ing that Governor Kohler, the rich manufacturer who beat the LaFol- lette candidate two years ago, would win easily. Then, with about four weeks left to go, the youthful Phi LaFollette got busy.
 Never in Wisconsin's history has there been a more intense, spirited speaking tour than the one Phi launched. He carried his campaign personally into practically ever, one of the II counties in the state and proceeded to turn districts tha had been considered Kohler strong holds into LaFollette strongholds.
 During his tour he delivered 25' speeches, addressing crowds iron four to nine times a day. He drev crowds that broke all records. Hi but Philip quickly proved that h
 was his fathers equal in that re spect. People came by the thou sands to hear him speak, some o