MILWAUKEE FEDERATIONISTS ENCOURAGED BY IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE IN PRIMARY
Milwaukee Federationists Encouraged by Impressive Performance in Primary Hoan Sweeps Mayoralty Contest With 46% of Vote MILWAUKEE liberals looked forward with renewed hope thus week to a...
...John H. Grunwald, federation candidate for city comptroller, qualified for the genL. C. Fons Rattling Stein-le for Circuit Judge Vacancy eral election and he will oppose William H. Wendt, incumbent, who led in the bri-mary polling...
...His opponent in tin...
...Paul Gauer, active federationist, won the right to oppose City Atty...
...Hoan, who is seeking his eighth consecutive term, again led federation candidates by rolling up 75,-305 votes as compared with 50,516 for the second place candidate and 18,362 for the third place contender...
...They will fight it out in the general election with Fons standing an oxcellent chance of picking up a great many of the 43.798 votet cast for Dennis M. Sullivan who was eliminated in the primary election...
...Walter J. Mattison for that post in the run-off contest...
...Milwaukee Federationists Encouraged by Impressive Performance in Primary Hoan Sweeps Mayoralty Contest With 46% of Vote MILWAUKEE liberals looked forward with renewed hope thus week to a successful race in the municipal elections in April following an impressive Farmer-Labor-Progressive federation peform-ance in the primaries last week...
...Mayor Daniel VV...
...Harold V. Schoenecker, who was a member of the reactionary senate coalition when he served in the legislature, trailed in third place and was eliminated from the race...
...2 run-off election will be Carl Zeidlcr...
...Theodore Dammann, former Progressive secretary of state, turned in a brilliant performance in leading the incumbent city treasurer, Joseph J. Krueger, by a vote of 71,373 to 68,225...
...Hoan, who captured every ward but one, piled up 46 per cent of the total vote in a field of eight, candidates, as comnarcd wtih the 41 per cent i he won in the primary o! 1930 when he went on to win in the general election...
...In Milwaukee's non-partisan judicial contest Leonard Fons, who has long been active in the Progressive movement made a strong run against Roland J. Stcinle, Republican attorney who was appointed to the circuit judge post recently by Gov...
...Heil...
...It . will be Dammann and Krticger m the April run-on election...
...youthful former assistant city attorney, who Dammann Leads Field in City Treasurer Contest gave Earl D. Lillydahl, real estate man, a terrific trouncing for second place in the primary race...
...In a three-cornered race Fons gathered 65,990 votes votes compared with 79,341 for Steinle...
...Poorest showing in the mayoralty race was made by Fred Bassett Blair, who wore the Communist colors and polled 1,161 votes in a total of 160,572...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
