Robert+LaFollette

Robert LaFollette

Robert LaFollette was the most important figure in Wisconsin politics for 25 years. He became a lawyer in 1880 and a U.S. Congressman in 1885, then following his defeat in the election of 1890 he became the leader of a group within the Republican party that opposed the conservative state leadership. LaFollette embraced the populist idea of agrarian reform and became a champion of farmers, small business, and laborers. Robert LaFollette was the first to care about monopolies, natural resources, child labor laws and collective bargaining and wanted to get rid of them. Robert LaFollette created the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall.

My quote is "La Follette is the opposite of a demagogue. Capable of fierce invective, his oratory is impersonal; passionate and emotional himself, his speeches are temperate. Some of them are so loaded with facts and such closely knit arguments that they demand careful reading, and their effect is traced to his delivery, which is forceful, emphatic, and fascinating." This quote is expressing how Robert Lafollette was a great speech creator.



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