PRESIDENTIAL RACE HIGHLIGHTS STATE ELECTION
Presidential Race Highlights State Election Vandenberg - Dewe y, FDR-Garner Battles In National Spotlight Voters Also Ballot In County, Local, Judicial Contests; Teachers' Tenure Under Attack THE...
...Political observers have their eyes gued on these elections with the expectation of finding in them a barometer on Heil sentiment...
...Expert Denounces GOP Anti-Labor Enactments MILWAUKEE...
...Responding to the organization's action...
...Last week, when he stayed in the senate chamber long enough to vote, Sen...
...who has long been active in Progressive work, was a member of the assembly during the 1935 and 19.17 legislative sessions and played a prominent part in the enactroenl of Progressive legislation...
...former director of the University of Wisconsin School for Workers, said here last week...
...Wiley was absent on about one-third of the 26 outstanding roll calls of the 1939 session...
...This survey was based on the official roll calls contained in the Congressional Record...
...A few weeks ago Wiley failed to vote and failed to pair in advance when the fight to prevent widespread use of oleomargarine in federal institutions came to a head...
...Wiley's performance in the senate during the present session is similar to his performance in 1939, which was his first, session in congress...
...Wiley Is Away From Senate On Farm Vote WASHINGTON, D. C—Sen...
...He took a leading role in the senate in the 1937 and especially in the 1939 session, and received state and national recognition when he conducted a fighting all-night, filibuster in 1939 against the Republican drive to repeal the WDA act...
...Chippewa Falls Republican, was absent from the U. S. senate again last week when that body voted on a major issue—parity payments for agriculture...
...Naturally I have made no decision at this early date, but I intend to give serious consideration to running for reelection as senator or entering the congressional race...
...Atty...
...Voters will have an opportunity to decide whether they want the law j repealed or retained...
...Robert Taft of Ohio is not entered in the Wisconsin primary...
...Speaking at the Women's Court and Civic conference...
...Thomas E. Dewey of New York City...
...The contests are in the first circuit, embracing Racine...
...Adams County Progressives elected George Bingham...
...Schwartztrauhw said that enactment of the anti-labor laws constituted a major setback for industrial peace through natual understanding...
...Roy Empey...
...the second circuit which takes in part of Milwaukee county...
...One of the Roosevelt groups is led by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan, Democratic national committeeman, and Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the FDIC...
...Michael F. Kresky, Green Bay, for the Progressive nomination for the eighth district congressional seat...
...Ernest...
...According to Editorial Research Reports, a non-partisan statistical agency...
...K. Schwartztrau-ber...
...Alexander Wiley...
...Hottest fight of all is raging within the camp of Roosevelt supporters...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Wisconsin Progressive, carried the fight alone for the measure protecting Badger dairy products...
...Friendship, chairman of their club...
...Bloomquist...
...the 13th circuit, which includes, Waukesha, Dodge, Washington, and Ozaukee counties, and the 11th circuit made up of Douglas, Burnett, Washburn, Polk, and Bar-' ron counties...
...Sen...
...Only other Wisconsin election day j contest of statewide scope is the ref- ; erendum on the teachers' tenure law...
...Bitterness within the camps of the Republican and Democratic parties mounted in the closing days of the race as the old party politicians realized that Wisconsin provides the first real test in the G. O. P.'s Vandenberg-Dewey clash and the Democratic party's Roosevelt-Garner contest...
...All groups in both parties' were working feverishly to win over Progressive votes, but the official leadership of the Progressive party has taken no positon whatsoever on the in-tra-party scraps of the two old parties...
...county chairman, revealed that 47 of the county's 49 precinct committeemen were present when the endorsement was voted...
...Wis.—Brown County Progressive leaders voted unanimously last week to endorse State Sen...
...Wiley voted against an amendment to the Hatch "clean politics" act which would limit campaign contributions to $5,000 from one individual...
...Adams, to be the Progressive candidate for the assembly from Adams and Marquette counties, was voted at a meeting of the Adams County Progressive club last week...
...Kresky Urged To Enter Race For Congress Brown County Leaders Are Told He Is 'Receptive' GREEN BAY...
...Teachers' Tenure Under Attack THE national political spotlight will be focused sharply oh Wisconsin Tuesday, April 2, when voters go to the polls to record their preference for presidential candidates in a spring election which is also crowded with state, county, local and judicial contests...
...The referendum is advisory and is not binding on the legislature, Prohibition contests will hold the I spotlight in a score of Wisconsin communities as the voter's ballot on the sale of liquor or beer or both...
...I will acc.de to the requests...
...Kenosha, and Walworth counties...
...W. H. Kurth was named secretary and B. Bloomquist was elected treasurer...
...Labor legislation enacted by the Republican administration "tends to hinder and slow up progress toward employer-employe relations," Dr...
...Two rival slates of candidates, each claiming to be 100 per cent for President Roosevelt, are fighting each other so bitterly that they have had no time to defend themselves from attacks by the Garner group...
...Conservative Democrats, who are enjoying the scrap in Roosevelt ranks, intend to throw their full support to Vice-President Garner, who is the president's only opposition in the' Democratic presidential primary...
...Kresky's four year legislative record was acclaimed enthusiastically at the meeting...
...If the demands of the liberals of this district are such that they wish me to run for congress...
...Republican forces are split between those backing Sen, Arthur Vanden-berg of Michigan and Dist...
...Kresky said he was in "a receptive mood...
...Adams County for Bloomquist for Assembly ADAMS, Wis.—Unanimous adoption of a resolution urging Edwin W. Bloomquist...
...Four circuit judges, all of them Heil appointees, are seeking election against stiff opposition...
...The other Roosevelt camp is headed by Gustav Keller, Appleton, who has bolted the official state leadership of the Democratic party, and Edward P. Curry, chairman of the Democratic party organization of Milwaukee county...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
