Publisher's Synopsis
The Facts. Robert La Follette and Burton K. Wheeler ran for President and Vice-President in the 1924 election. La Follette was a well known political force in Wisconsin and Wheeler a young insurgent from Montana. Running at a time when people read, they produced this campaign literature to explain their candidacies. One Republican, one Democrat, together running under the progressive name. They would go on to win 16.6% of the popular vote, slightly less than 5 million votes, and the 13 electoral votes of the state of Wisconsin. Presented here as the third volume of the Wisconsin Progressive Library, an effort to allow modern readers to learn about Robert Marion La Follette, Sr., and discover how his ideas still resonate today.
