[2] Philipp also worked for the Gould transcontinental system and as traffic manager for Schlitz Brewery Company.He served with Robert M. La Follette, Sr. as chairman of the Milwaukee County Convention, before disagreeing with him over railroad oversight.[5] A conservative Republican, he wrote, with the help of Edgar Werlock, Political Reform in Wisconsin: A Historical Review of the Subjects of Primary Election, Taxation and Railway Regulation (1910).[7] During the First World War he was accused of holding divided loyalty's between the United States and the German Empire by his political opposition.Under his governorship during the war Wisconsin would see the rise of a anti-German American faction, typically referred to as "hyper patriots".