MAYOR HOAN IS DEFEATED BY CARL ZEIDLER, YOUNG BARITONE AND BACHELOR
Mayor Hoan Is Defeated By Carl Zeidler, Young Baritone and Bachelor Heil Abandons Plan To Close Branch Offices Angry Protests Produce Complete Switch by Governor FACED with angry public protests,...
...veteran Socialist leader under whose 24 year leadership as mayor Milwaukee has become the best governed large city in the United States, suffered political defeat at the hands of a 32-year-old Milwaukee lawyer who put on a ballyhoo campaign...
...His consistent victories against, every ticket that in the past had been put in the field, against him had become something of a tradition...
...Wauwatosn, Wis., and Earl La Plant...
...A young, good looking bachelor baritone, Carl F. Zeidler, handed Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee his first political defeat as a candidate for mayor in 24 years on Tuesday by a margin of 12,000 votes...
...They arc Eugene G. Trimberger, Milwaukee...
...He blamed the present financial mess of the state government on his own Republican-controlled legislature which passed the biggest budget in history and left it unbalanced by $17,-000.000...
...Julius P. Heil'.' staff was increased to 123 Inst week when three new appointments were announced...
...millionaire plumbing goods manufacturer and former Republican governor of Wisconsin, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of conspiring to restrain trade in wolation of anti-trust laws...
...Robert H. Hanke...
...The defeat, of Mayor Hoan was regarded by liberals as a distinct loss to good government in Wisconsin...
...No other mayor of a large American city has ever approached Mayor Hoan's record of service...
...Maximum sentence if conviction is ehlaineri is a fine of $5,000 or a year in prison or both...
...Heil backed down last week on his demand for abolition of branch offices of the state highway commission...
...Keillor was governor of Wisconsin from 1928 (o 1930 but was united in 1330 by Phil La Follette making his first bid for the governorship...
...The Kohlcr Co., located at Kohlcr, Sheboygan county, denied the anti-rust charges In a pub'.lc statement...
...Heil observed bitterly that "it would be a damn good thing to close up the state capitol for a month...
...The total vote for Zeidler, who is a former assistant city attorney, was 111.900 to Hoan's 99,845...
...whose tactics are said to have attracted the support, of younger voters, succeeded in passing Hoan...
...Kohlcr sought to make a comeback in 1932 but he fell before the Denux ratic landslide and has not been a candidate fur office since...
...Heil said that although the branch offices would be kept intact, their staffs would be slashed in the interest of "economy...
...PASS THIS PAPER OX It Will Win New Readers 123 Three New Honorary Colonels Named by Gov...
...The federal government contended that smashing of the plumbing monopoly would yield...
...Kohlcr was one nf 12 manufacturers among a total of 102 defendants indicted...
...The governor, whose long absence from the capitol had made him unaware of the mounting public protest, announced soon after visiting the capitol for the ninth time in 79 days, that he favors retention of the commission offices in Rhinelander, Superior, Eau Claire, Lancaster, and Wisconsin Rapids...
...With the race narrowed down to two candidates, Zeidler...
...When he was confronted last week with a crowd of protesting delegations, Gov...
...20 to 25 per cent saving to consumers...
...Lee O'Daniel of Texas and sang songs for the voters...
...Veteran Socialist Loser in Mayor Contest in Milicaukee MILWAUKEE, Wis...
...One report was that thousands of unmarried young women voted for Zeidler, who is a bachelor...
...Mayor Hoan Is Defeated By Carl Zeidler, Young Baritone and Bachelor Heil Abandons Plan To Close Branch Offices Angry Protests Produce Complete Switch by Governor FACED with angry public protests, Gov...
...While Mayor Hoan and his supporters discussed issues, young Zeidler entertained in the manner of Gov...
...Sturgeon Bay, Wis...
...August Frey, who gets $5,000 a year for thinking up ideas like centralizing control of state government in Madison, was absent in Florida for his second vacation of the winter when Heil barked down...
...In addition to Zeidler's success, other candidates on the so-called "non-partisan" ticket on which he ran were elected to major city offices...
...Walter J.Holder Is Indicted In Trust Inquiry WALTER J. KOHLER...
...Heil THE number of honorary colonels on Gov...
...Although often faced with a hostile council in his 24 years in the city hall, Mayor Hoan won for Milwaukee a reputation that put the city on the top rung among cities of the United States...
...In the primary three weeks previous, Hoan had led the field of mayor candidates with a vote of 75,000 to Zeidler's 50,000...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
