Article by WNews Correspondent Dallas Darling In 1917, two days after President Woodrow Wilson called for the United States to enter World War I, Wisconsin’s progressively minded and anti-war Sen. Robert La Follette attacked the president’s decision declaring: “The poor who are always the ones called upon to rot in trenches have no organized power…But oh, Mr. President, at some time they will be heard…There will come an awakening, they will have their day, and they will be heard!”1 Yesterday in the Wisconsin primaries there was another progressive awakening. The working poor and middle classes had their day and again spoke by voting for another progressive and anti-imperialist candidate:...
