THE CONGRESS: Mother and Son

Governor Elaine of Wisconsin announced that he would call a special election in the fall to fill the seat of the late Senator Robert M. LaFollette (TIME, June 29).

Among the Republican candidates already in the field are onetime (1911-15) Governor Francis E. McGovern and Roy P. Wilcox, former state Senator. They are "regulars."

But the expectation is that the election will go not to a regular but to an insurgent—an insurgent by the name of LaFollette. The question was: "Which LaFollette?"

Last week this question was answered by the LaFollettes themselves. Mrs....

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