Follette in a sentence

His efforts paid off in the first presidential primary in North Dakota; Coolidge won, La Follette ran second, and Johnson was far behind La Follette.

Roosevelt's only hope at the convention was to form a "stop-Taft" alliance with La Follette, but Roosevelt had alienated La Follette, and the alliance could not form.

La Follette ran for reelection last year because he said it was important to keep his office in Democratic hands at a time when Republicans around the country were giving secretaries of state more power to run elections.

La Follette wept at the end of his speech, and after the overwhelming vote to go to war he was handed a rope on the way out of the chamber.

A man of ability had to be chosen and one who would also bring strength to the ticket in areas where La Follette could potentially run well.

At the same time, the inroads of La Follette's candidacy upon the Republican Party were in areas where in this national contest their candidate could afford to be second or third in the poll.

But La Follette carried no section, and he was second in only 2 sections, the Mountain and Pacific areas.

Coolidge and Dawes won every state outside the South except Wisconsin, La Follette's home state.

Davis carried only the traditionally Democratic Solid South and Oklahoma; due to liberal Democrats voting for La Follette, Davis lost the popular vote to Coolidge by 25.2 percentage points.

He also claimed La Follette had made huge profits from his investments while he, McCarthy, had been away fighting for his country.

Ill with pneumonia and absent from his Senate desk during most of the spring, sixty-four-year-old La Follette still was a formidable contender.

In 12 states, the La Follette vote was greater than that cast for Davis.

In his acceptance speech La Follette urged that military spending be curtailed and soldiers' bonus paid.

In one of these states, Wisconsin, La Follette defeated the Republican ticket also, thus winning one state in the electoral college.

In the fall of 1923, Senator Hiram Johnson of California announced his intention of fighting Coolidge in the presidential primaries, and already friends of Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin were planning a third party.

It is important to note that La Follette ran second in 566 counties.

La Follette had told reporters the previous summer that there would be no need for a third ticket unless both parties nominated reactionaries.

La Follette's investments consisted of partial interest in a radio station, which earned him a profit of $47,000 over two years.

The inroads of the La Follette candidacy upon the Democratic Party were in areas where Democratic county majorities had been infrequent in the Fourth Party System.

The La Follette vote was distributed over the nation, and in every state, but its greatest strength lay in the East North Central and West North Central sections.