Richard Drake writes that the challenges facing us today are strikingly similar to those raised by Robert M. La Follette a century ago.
The issues facing us today are disturbingly comparable to those Robert M. highlighted. La Follette 100 years previously, writes Richard Drake. The issues of today are eerily similar to those that Robert M. outlined. La Follette 100 years previously, writes Richard Drake.
Richard Drake writes that the challenges facing us today are strikingly similar to those raised by Robert M. La Follette a century ago.
Acestea cresc şi cresc în domeniul public. In 1923, U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. delivered a campaign speech using the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Despite being sixty-nine years old and in poor health, the Wisconsin senator ran for president as a third-party candidate in 1924. The progressive Republican who had been involved in the party for a long time felt disconnected from the candidate the party had chosen that year, incumbent President Calvin Coolidge, who was known for his pro-business stance. La Follette rejected the Democratic Party candidate, Wall Street attorney John Davis, as being in favor of corporate interests. La Follette believed that the two-party system in the United States had not succeeded in giving the American people a real option when it came to important political issues. He compared the two main parties to very similar twins who are completely controlled by Wall Street. La Follette, upon accepting the nomination from the Progressive Party, stated that the American people were living in a dictatorship controlled by the wealthy. He selected a progressive Democratic candidate, U.S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler from Montana, to partner with him.
