LA FOLLETTE DEAD

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 223, 20 June 1925, Page 7

LA FOLLETTE DEAD

OPPONENT OF COOLIDGE AND DAVIS INSTIGATOR OF OIL SCANDAL INQUIRY By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. Washington, June 18. Senator La Follette died to-day, at the ago cf 70, of heart weakness following bronchial asthma. Senator La Follette started life on a Wisconsin farm, and climbed his way through most of the State offices to become a. Senator of the United States, which office lie held for twenty years. He reached the climax of his career last year when he entered the Presidential campaign, polling five, million votes against Air. Coolidge and Mr. Davis as an Independent, for which he was later ousted from the Republican Party and deprived of seniority honours. Since then his health has gradually failed, and it is believed that his strenuous campaign hastened his end. Senator La Follette was the instigator of the sensational Teapot Dome investigation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Robert Alarion La Follette was a graduate of Wisconsin State University, and was admitted to the bar in 1880 He went to Washington as Congressman. He was thrice elected Governor of Wisconsin after a prolonged conflict with the Republican machine, and then, nineteen years ago, won the seat in the Senate. As Senator he followed his own line in national affairs, and there were many critical periods in his political life, when he was left almost alone to fight the battles of a onee healthy party. He was nearly 70 years of ape when nominated for the Presidency of the United States last year as an Independent. He was the only possible nominee of the Progressives, who are a large body of citizens, but a non-existent party. Their champion was anything but eager to come out, havintr onlv just rocevered from an exhaustion illness. It was, nevertheless, virtually impossible for him to resist the call, and it was admitted that the advanced sections of American opinion mobilised behind him in striking fashion.]