ROOSEVELT THEODORE Typed Letter Signed to political leaders

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WISCONSIN PROGRESSIVES SPLIT ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, to political leaders Norman Baker, F.E. Davidson, and Henry F. Cochems, urging that they support Wisconsin Governor McGovern in his fight against Progressive apostate Senator La Follette. 3 pages, 4to, 'Outlook' stationery, written on separate sheets; horizontal fold. (TFC) New York, 9 September 1913

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'. . . [W]e Progressives outside of Wisconsin believe in you and appreciate to the full the great fight you have made . . . I venture to make a confidential suggestion to the Progressives of Wisconsin . . . . One of the men whom the Progressives . . . have grown to look up to with special regard is your Governor, Francis E. McGovern. . . . There is in Wisconsin at present a very curious alliance between the followers of Senator La Follette and the reactionary forces of both the Republican and the Democratic parties. The one man . . . who is most dreaded and detested by this combination is Governor McGovern, and he is therefore the man around whom the Progressives should rally. . . . All Progressives regretted Senator La Follette's abandonment of Progressive principles . . . . [W]e shall be acting in the true spirit of the Progressive movement if at the present time we . . . support the Governor. . . .'