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leading for the past quarter of a century. He scored the same victory, in 

 the same region, and among pretty much the same people. 81 His great- 

 est vote was in the old Granger states. The St. Paul Dispatch, no friend of 

 La Follette, saw in the election a dire warning to the Republicans to ac- 

 cept a more western point of view. The party, it felt, had gravitated too 

 much into the hands of men "who see with the eyes of Eastern industri- 

 alism. . . ." "If the west is to be held, it will be necessary to restore the 

 balance within the party between East and West, and to re-establish the 

 national character of its leadership." ! 



8 1. "The Future of the La Follette Party," Literary Digest, LXXXIII (November 



15, 1924), pp. 10-11. 



82. St. Paul Dispatch, November 5, 1924. 



