Excerpt from Robert M. La Follette and Wisconsin Progressivism By then La Follette had been in politics for over twenty years. He had graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1879, and the next year took a law degree. Then he decided to run for district attorney of Dane County, without first consulting Re publican leaders. Elisha Keyes, Madison postmaster and local Republican boss, had other ideas. He called the young lawyer in and told him things weren't done that way. There would be a Republican district attorney next term but his name wasn't La Follette. He advised the young man to go to work and learn a few things about politics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.