lafollette is leader." looking back on the battle she waged for suffrage that years, she admitted, i spoke seven days a week in succession, usually three or four times a day, sometimes six or eight. [ laughter ] during one 12-day tour, she gave 31 speeches in 14 different counties. lesson 13 -- be able be able to compellingly articulate your political goals. la follette marched in the great suffrage parade in new york city on may 4th, 1912. less than a year later, she testified before the u.s. women's committee onist suffrage that granting it was quote, a simple matter of common sense. you know how lincoln defined government at gettysburg. by the people, and for the people, and are not women people? mrs. robert m. la follette gave a remarkable address. congress however did not grant women the vote. early in the first term of the wilson administration, belle la follette was a member of a contingent of suffrage advocates that met with the president. they were hurried out of the white house after ten minutes h