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The primary also produced an obstacle to the Governor's greater ambitions. Older than his National Progressives of America is the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, a by-product of Minnesota's potent Farmer-Labor Party—a similar attempt to expand a State third-party machine beyond State borders. The burgeoning National Progressives, already a force in California politics and last fortnight unsuccessfully implored by Democratic Governor Nelson Kraschel to abandon their plans for a three-cornered race in Iowa this year, have more than once rubbed elbows with Farmer-Laborites but have preserved a state of truce. This year, in return for staying out of Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary, the Federation besought Governor La Toilette's aid for the Progressive candidacy of Representative Thomas Amlie for the Senate. Having earmarked the Senate seat for his faithful Lieutenant Governor Herman Ekern, the Governor supported Mr. Ekern against Mr. Amlie, although he tactfully refrained from making any speeches. Candidate Ekern trounced Candidate Amlie last week after a bitter Progressive primary, in which Amlie also had the support of Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan. This raised the possibility that when Progressive Ekern brings the La Follette fight on the New Deal into the open against Democratic Senator F. Ryan Duffy in November, the Federation and Governor La Follette may fight it out too.