SOCIALIST SWEEP IN MILWAUKEE
SOCIALIST SWEEP IN MILWAUKEE Hoan Wins Record Majority—Party Elects Treasurer And City Attorney, Gains Nine Local Seats MILWAUKEE'S workingdass gave a political lead to the nation in this week's...
...Briefly he covered the record of insincerity and extravagance which the 19 "independent Blatz hotel Non-Partisans" have enacted during their put four years in the city hall...
...Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan campaigned on the vital problems of Milwaukee's municipal problems and' on the facts of the industrial collapse...
...Insinuations were none too guardedly made that there was "a fat pension'' arranged for him at the conclusion of his next term...
...Beaven Dam elected R. A. Weaver, Socialist, as mayor, while Iola was also good to itself and re-elected Socialist Mayor Anderson...
...J. Melms 17th.—Frank B. Metcalfe 20th.—Emil Brodde' 25th.—Fred Heath 27th.—Robert Buech 5th.—William Tesch 7th.—Alex Ruffing 9th.—Emil Seidel 10th.—Carl P. Diet* 12th.—Frank Boncel 13th.—Charles Winkelman 17th.—Paul Gauer 20th.—August W. Strehlow 21st.—William Baumann 25th.i-Charles C. Shad 26th,—William Coleman 27th,—Leonard Place Many Other Victories The Socialist tidal wave swept the party's candidates into office wherever a fight was put up in the state...
...When the voters, laughed this into silence, stories were spread -that he owned much property on which he paid no taxes...
...Carl Hampel, Socialist, was re-elected Justice of the Peace, the fourth of the five city-wide offices which contested the election...
...We workers will go on working until we put our candidate in the governor's chair in Madison and until there is another emancipator in the White House...
...Local Wards Carried The Non-Partisan machine was badly damaged in the elections for the board of supervisors and the boaad of aldermen...
...The Socialists increased their representation in the board of supervisors from six to nine, out of a board of 20...
...The Non-Partisans had previously held this office...
...The only solace of the thoroughly whipped Non-Partisan crew is the hare victory of their candidate for comptroller who won his place by the slim majority of 242 votes over John Banachowicz, Socialist...
...The Non-Partisans, described by Mayor Hoan as Democrats and Republicans who were ashamed of their names, also lost the important office of city attorney to Max Raskin, Socialist...
...The Socialists are to contest two of the seats won by Non-Partisans in the Board of Aldermen, and they confidently expect that the recounts will give them the majority in Here are the Socialist supervisors and aldermen elected: Aldermen m f 4 Supervisors 2nd.—Otto Kehrein Sth.—Herman G. Tucker 7th.—James P. Sheehan 9th.—Joseph F. Miteller 11th.—A...
...that even though they put us, in Jail during the war, they could not get us to change one line of it...
...John Murdoch, Socialist, was elected city treasurer by the sizeable majority of 38,000...
...The staggering figures of the heaviest vote ever cast in the history of the city tell the story most eloquently...
...Raskin, young Socialist attorney, took the measure of the reaction opposition" by a majority of 8,000 votes...
...If you go to the polls Tuesday and vote the Socialist ticket you will send'the Word to nil the notion that yon are waking up, and won't stand for this kind of licatuwnt any longer...
...We can't change this whole rotten system Tuesday, but we can make a kick about it," Mayor Hoan declared in closing...
...The Socialist mayor asked the votefs to repudiate the Democratic and Republican parties for their responsibility in the unemployment crisis...
...The former organization Mayor Hoan branded as "a gang of wealthy downtown property owners trying to get out of paying their just share of the cost of improvements," and the latter "a humbug outfit of bully boys, coming from Shorewood and Wanwatosa, who are going to get a solar plexus blow on April 5." Predicting that as soon as the Socialists get strong enough to elect the governor and a majority in the state legislature, the state will follow the example set in Milwaukee, Mayor Hoan urged the voters to remember that "Non-Partisan* are only Republicans and Democrats in disguise who are ashamed of their |xirty names...
...Mayor Hoan, who will soon begin his 17th year as Socialist Mayor of 11th largest city in the United States, was jubilant after a hard fight in which he had to face personal slander as well as unscrupulous attacks on the Socialist record and platform...
...In the board of aldermen, composed of 27 members, the Socialists will now have 12 where tliey had but six...
...Hoan was easily able to disprove both ends of this falsehood...
...The answer was unmistakable...
...In the most eloquent plea of the campaign Mayor Hoan Monday night sum marized the bitter personal fight which the Non-Partisan candidates have waged against him...
...He#e they are: FOR MAYOR DANIEL W. HOAN (Socialist) . . . JOSEPH P CARNEY (Non-Partisan) • * • • » 101,501 62,505 A Socialist Field Day Tremendous as was Hoan's almost two-to-one victory, it was not a personal victory...
...After the votes liad been counted, Mayor Hoan, tired to the point of exhausHf...
...It was a triumph for the entire Socialist party and its candidates...
...Racine reported the election of five Socialist aldermen, two Socialist supervisors, and a Socialist school director...
...A Blow at the System "The Cut Cost of Government League," and, after it had been discredited, the "Voters' Council," took up the fight waged for the Non-Partisans by their wealthy backers against the working class candidates, the mayor said...
...I told the voters daily that we Socialists stood by our program...
...SOCIALIST SWEEP IN MILWAUKEE Hoan Wins Record Majority—Party Elects Treasurer And City Attorney, Gains Nine Local Seats MILWAUKEE'S workingdass gave a political lead to the nation in this week's elections by rolling up -a vote that gave the Socialist Party its greatest victory since the city went Socialist in 1910...
...gnrr this mcssagr tn Thr Nrw T.mrlrr rrprrvrttfirivr to be conveyed to the Socialists of the country e, Mayor Hoan's Message "It waa a million times more important that the voters of Milwaukee voted for the candidates of their own party and against this damnable system, than that they voted for me at an individual...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 15
