THE ROUT OF LIBERALISM IN WISCONSIN
Frank, Paul Z.
The American Scene The Rout of Liberalism in Wisconsin By Paul Z. Frank Well-hnoun Wisconsin Publicist MADISON, Wis.—Ths last remnants of • defeated and disorganised liberalism in...
...The Sensenbrenner interests, in knocking McMurray out of his job, were completing the other half of a doubleplay which first caught Senator Robert M. I.aFollette, Jr., off base in the fall primaries of 1 i>46...
...Only 25 pickets showed up and never yot within 50 feet of the hearing room...
...of Hospital* here...
...Cotton, who introduced his students to such ideas as cooperatives, and who allowed representatives of minor parties to be heard in school debates, incurred the especial wrath of parochial school interests...
...77ie American Dream, by Daniel Hell...
...business interests and a group of educators at the University af Wisconsin...
...NO FEE...
...LaFollctte was beaten by a narrow margin by a 36-year-old product of Marquette University ami a favorite of Sensenbrenner, Joseph 15...
...The results ol tho Bobrowicz nomination were unfortunate to the Democratic Party...
...something of an extra-special treat...
...Brophy, an ex-Socialist, was not sure of victory until he received the endorsement of Charles Wealey, a Milwaukee industrialist who belongs to the ex-tiov...
...Tha police department, used tj hugs Communist ami Communist-laminated delegations, had brought out a small army...
...Cerson spoke after all radio stations had gone off the air and the Hoard was preparing to retire for the evening, (ierson blamed "subversive" elements at City Hall for preventing an earlier appearance...
...One of them made a radio address loi McCarthy, who rewarded this si:ppoit by an official threat of martial law for the striking coal miners, with implications that the death penalty might be used...
...An endorsement of LaFollette by Leo T. Crowley did not alter this trend...
...We announced that this week we would return to our normal twenty-page size...
...the delegation's spokesman insisted . . "Why must there he a lee?'' Ih • doe I or asked . . . "Because...
...Indonesia on the Road to Freedom, by John R. Andu, and The Tool Owners Union: A Case Study, by Julien Weinberg...
...This happened to a doctor who once Ma- head of the Dept...
...WHAT...
...For (he next few weeks, we shall he forced to cut down lo sixteen pages...
...Most disappointed per•on at the hearings was ALP Council*en Kugene Connolly *ho had promised •M a large number of pickets would apP...
...He was invited lo Russia III help model ni/e the Soviet hospital system...
...Support for McMurray by labor groups along the Lake Michigan shore accounted for the margin of defeat which LaKollette suffered...
...kersli'ii charged Riemiller, also an ex-> ' Socialist, with havin'i supported "rovo- < lotion': at the Detroit convention of the Socialist Party in 1034...
...i^N interesting and unexpected result of this invasion of the Republican column occupied in the Fourth Congressional District, where Rep...
...A delegation therefore was sent to N. Y., and he Mif its members the full benefit nf his experience, . . They asked him his fee and he said: "There is no fee...
...Commercialism and Radio, by (iene King...
...OUTRAGEOUS...
...Struggle for the World...
...Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on the Republican campaign simply overwhelmed the opposition, which was divided in the primary between McMurray running on the Democratic ticket, and LaFollctte running as a Republican...
...Once before the Mayor, (lersan wished he had gone home to bed instead...
...This young circuit judge secured the backing of the regular Republican organization headed by Ross Tom Coleman, a Madison industrialist, and in defiance of a provision of the State Constitution which declares that a sitting judge may not be a candidate for any office except a judicial one, he proceeded to beat LaFollette...
...Behind-the-scenes, operating a« the Communist Party's official legislative representative was Simon W. CerSon, former City Editor of tho Itaitff Worker, former Sergeant-in-Charge of the Information and Education Section^ Cimp Upton, New York...
...Ths Daily Worker I Feb...
...Hut there must he a fee...
...McCarthy charged McMurray with Communism -a charge which McMurray was unable to counter effectively...
...SORRY AGAIN • Last week, because of the severe paper shortage, we were forced temporarily to eliminate four pages...
...Heard on the Fronts • Attempts by the Communists and their Left Wing organization stooges to run the recent live cent fare hearings in New York City backfired when their leaders were given little if any opportunity by Major William O'Dwyer to haul in every letterhead organization, every I WO Lodge, etc...
...Hunger in (iermang, by Frit* llaadc...
...Another resounding defeat was that of Congressman Andrew J. Biemiller, Democrat from the Fifth District, by Attorney Charles J. Kersterf, Milwaukee, :\ Marquette graduate who received the*1 heavy parochial vote that normally voted Democratic...
...Graduates of parochial schools who attended the teachers college and came upon such ideas as evolution were often shocked, as were their parents...
...However, the Socialists elected no one...
...and will be able lo return to nur regular twenty-page sine...
...McMurray also had the support of the two largest newspapers in the state, the Milwaukee Join nil I and the Capital Times...
...On January 17 the big business board of regents of the Univsrsity of Wisconsin refused to reAppoint Howard J. McMurray, liberal 1M< Democratic candidate for US Senator, to his post of associate professor sf political science...
...The nature of these exposures forced the leading Democrats, including McMurray, State Senator Robert Tehan, Congressman Andrew J. Ricmiller, and Daniel W. Hoan, Democratic candidate for governor, into a repudiation of Communist support...
...We sincerel> hope that wc will soon he over the hump on the paper Mhorlage...
...Joseph Cotton of the Milwaukee 8t»te Teachers College, has been removed from his position by the board of normal school regents, whose leading figure was Edward J. Dempsey, an Oshkosh attorney closely identified with the Sensenbrenner interests...
...If the plight of humans can be ullrtinlril, thiil's sufficient compensation for inr...
...He refused lo make the trip...
...For once the Communists had not administered their usual kiss-of-death...
...Chummiest session of all took place in the corridors of City Hall when Joseph f Crowjn, delegate at the hearings for the Lawyers (iuild, (lerson and William Unger.left wing lawyer, congratulated each •thei on the statements they had made before the Board...
...Congratulations to the man who took tho ran who commanded the camp where American soldieis who got drunkenly lecherrous or otherwise violated some I'S Army rule, ^ot cruelly beaten up...
...Saul Itilll, head of the left wing CIO State Ihduiitrial Council and Harry Sacher, party-line attorney for the Transport Workers of America (led by Councilman Michael Quill—who didn't dare show up te take issue) were taken over the verbal roals by the Mayor and members of the Board...
...Seniority, and all that...
...ARMY PROMOTION • James A. Killlan lias been promoted to the permanent lank of Colonel...
...ITALIANS IN SOVIET WAR CAMPS • Only (1 percent of the Italian war prisoners put into Soviet concentration camps survived, the Defense Minister of the Italian Government reported, charging the Soviet (iovernment with reckless Cruelty...
...The official spokesman for the American Labor Party was shoved into the background at the concluding moments of the official hearing...
...Killian, found guilty of brutality, was lined $.'>00 and gently reprimanded - and a few months Inter promoted...
...SOVIET AND TZARIST IMPERAUSM • James Reston of the NY Timrl showed that the Soviet Union has annexed, since the war's end, 270,000 sonars miles ot territory...
...but the Army could have given the officer responsible for atrocities against Americans a dishonorable discharge...
...It was a day of victory for the opponents of the ten cent fare...
...McCarthy was aided also by thousands of Catholic votes which normally went into the Democratic column, but which deserted that column to vote Republican in the primary...
...Isaacs, those who have forgotten their history Should be told had employed GerSon •J a top aide when he was PresiItnt of the Borough of Manhattan...
...The Milwaukee Journal, in a series of articles, exposed his connection with Communist front organizationB...
...Next week, however, we hope to make up for thin by presenting...
...The American Scene The Rout of Liberalism in Wisconsin By Paul Z. Frank Well-hnoun Wisconsin Publicist MADISON, Wis.—Ths last remnants of • defeated and disorganised liberalism in Wisconsin pave been beaten again in a final clash frttween big...
...Bioniiller's opponent received much *up-> port from the medical association because of Riemiller's interest in the 1 Wagiicr-Murray-Dingcll bill...
...Thus Wisconsin liberalism has been practically driven out of the state Icgislatin)', as well as from the higher offices and colleges...
...Another well-known liberal educator, Prof...
...A number of Wisconsin labor lenders, including the secretary of the 'Federated Trades Council of Mil-' waaki-c, supported Republican candi-' dates...
...McCarthy...
...Thaddeus B. Wasielcwski was unhorsed in the primary by i-Mtniind V. Bobrowicz, a PAC-CIO candidate who has been closely linked with the Communist party-line...
...Bobrowicz nearly succeeded in being elected when Waiielewski, running as an independent, took enough votes away from the Republican nominee, Alderman John Rrophy of Milwaukee, to dangerously lower Brophy's expected margin of victory...
...Corson was Very chummy with Councilman Stanley Isaacs during the proceedings...
...Heil-Sensenbrenner-Colcman Republican group...
...Hut we have met an even more formidable foe in the paper shortage than we suspected...
...he was told, "it violates our ideologic rniucplion of your capitalistic regime if ion don't ask for money...
...From London we have received a five-thousand-word review that George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, has written exclusively for The New Leader of James liurnham's Important new hook...
...In addition, McMurray committed what many think was an error of judgment when his group published a large advertisement attacking LaFollette on the war Issue and linking him with the recently defeated Senator Wheeler and others...
...Kersten equated ' Communism with National Socialism, the New Ileal, and liberalism in general...
...Other articles scheduled for next week are Argentine Labor, by Serallno Homualdi...
...McMurray and Biemiller also suffered from the fact that the labor vote was seriously split...
...Also disappointed at his failure to read a prepared speech was Lawrence Knobel, fuehrer of the left-wing dominated Metropolitan Area Council of the AVC...
...The Socialist Party, which run the fullest -Jut ¦ in years in the state, showed spotty uitins the highest of which were in Milwaukee County...
...Despite McMurray's support from the president of the university, E. B. Fred, the unanimous recommendation of the political science department and tlia recommendation of the dean of the collet* of letters and science, such Republican stalwarts as F. J. Sensenbrenner, kesd of the Kimberly-Clark paper group, and Michael J. Cleary, head of tha gigantic Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, castij fated McMurray severely for bciiisc "more interested in a political career than in teaching...
...Cotton was unsuccessful in his fight to compel a Republican board to restore him to his post after he had protested against what ho considered a salary discrimination...
...Leonard Lyons in the NY Post...
...before the Hoard ef Estimate to oppose a raise in the subway fare...
...2.1) eomaa back with his rebuttal: all this area and 80,000 square miles more was once part of the Tiarist Russian Empire, and hence the Soviets are justified in leeompiestl Joseph Clark of the DW adds that American hypoeiisy is shown because American capitalists refuse to give America back to the Indians, or Texas and California to the Mexicans...
Vol. 30 • March 1947 • No. 12
