Image dedication: "To my good friend Bill Stratton; With all good wishes, Hugh W. Cross."]]>
Photo dedication: "To Congressman Evan Howell: With sincere regards, Hugh W. Cross."]]>
La Follette, a Progressive Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ran unsuccessfully for president in 1912 as a Republican and in 1924 under the Progressive Party ticket.]]>
Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton satirizes the prolonged deadlock in the Illinois House of Representatives over the 1909 Senate election, which lasted from January 19, 1909 through May 26, 1909.]]>