Primoballoture

Wisconsin went to the polls and in effect re-elected the late Senator Robert M. LaFollette to the Senate. Senator LaFollette was elected in 1922 to serve until 1929. He died in June, and three months later his elder son, Robert M. LaFollette Jr., 30, barely of age to enter the Senate, became Senator-elect to serve out his father's term.

There were five candidates. The votes they polled in the election were:

LaFollette (Insurgent Republican)....230,000 Dithmar (Independent Republican).... 90,000

Work (Socialist) 11.00(

Bruce (Independent Democrat) 10,000

Bauman (Socialist-Labor) 700

From Spokane came a telegram to Mr. LaFollette: "I gladly surrender the distinction of being the youngest member of the Senate to a man who is really young." was sent by Clarence C. Dill, 40, Progressive Democrat.

In not so far off Terre Haute, Senator James E. Watson, regular Republican, exclaimed: "I am tired of seeing men going about the country under the banner of Republicanism when they are not Republicans. Young LaFollette made his campaign on a platform of lambasting President Coolidge and the Republican Party, and he cannot be recognized as a Republican when he enters the United States Senate."

The question of whether young Bob, like his father, will be excluded from the Republican caucus of the Senate depends on the action of the caucus. Senator Watson's words are a prediction (probably correct), not a decree.