PROGRESSIVES PLAN HUGE BIRTHDAY GATHERING
Progressives Plan Huge Birthday Gathering Leaders Map Plans For Anniversary of Party Birth May 19 Thousands Are Expected For Major Celebration—City To Be Picked hy Committee Soon PROGRESSIVES of...
...The birthday celebration will in many respects mark the launching of the 1940 campaign, for it will provide hundreds of state, county, and local leaders with a real opportunity to work off some of the kinks in their political pitching arms...
...11 per cent increase North Dakota......................33 per cent increase South Dakota...
...Preliminary plans for the huge Progressive celebration were mapped at a special meeting of the executive board of the Progressive state central committee called last week-end by Jack K. Kyle, Whitewater, committee chairman...
...The area as a whole showed an average increase of four per cent while Wisconsin's record was a minus four per cent...
...13 per cent increase Kansas...
...6 per cent increase Wisconsin...
...4 per cent decrease Minnesota...
...Since its beginning six years ago the Progressive party has swept Wisconsin in two of the last three elections, a remarkable performance for a new political organization...
...Party leaders said they expected a record-breaking crowd for the birthday celebration...
...The following table shows the results of the Business Week survey in the 12 midwestern agricultural states on farm income: Ohio...
...We are arranging a' splendid program of 'interest to all Progressives," Kyle said, "and I know that the May 19 gathering will be of great interest to Progressive-thinking men and women in all parts of Wisconsin...
...Wisconsin's Progressive party was founded at Fond du Lac May 19...
...The people of Wisconsin in all walks of life are thoroughly disgusted with the present Republican administration and are determined to sweep it out of office in favor of Progressives...
...The party won its first crucial test in 1934 when it elected Bob La Follette to trie senate, Phil La Follette to the governorship, seven out of 10 candidates for congress, and a host of candidates for local and legislative offices...
...But, said Chairman Kyle, "this birthday party on May 19 will set the stage for one of the greatest political comebacks in American history...
...5 per cent increase Indiana...
...In the west north central area the average increase was 11 per cent...
...after the Progressive-minded men and women in the Republican party abandoned their 40-year struggle to liberalize that party...
...The Progressive victory in 1936 was even more impressive as party candidates swept into all state offices, in addition to the governorship, while holding and in some cases increasing 1934 victories...
...When they campaigned for office in 1938, Republican candidates promised most lavishly in the field of agriculture, and their platform contained a solemn promise to provide for agriculture the cost of production plus a reasonable profit...
...Progressives Plan Huge Birthday Gathering Leaders Map Plans For Anniversary of Party Birth May 19 Thousands Are Expected For Major Celebration—City To Be Picked hy Committee Soon PROGRESSIVES of Wisconsin will rally at a statewide birthday party celebration on Sunday, May 19, to mark the sixth anniversary of the founding of their party in 1934...
...First setback, however, came in 1938 when a Republican landslide, first in a decade, removed all Progressives from state office and greatly reduced Progressive representation in congress, the legislature, and county courthouses...
...1934...
...Attendance will be open to all Progressives, since the gathering will not be in the form of a convention and will not oe limited to delegates elected at local and county conventions...
...The Business Week study shows that not only did farm income drop four per cent, but that Wisconsin was the only state among 12 midwestern agricultural states to show a decrease in agricultural yield...
...The city in which the birthday party will be held has not yet been selected, but the executive board will announce its choice as soon as arrangements are completed...
...In First Year of GOP Wisconsin Only State In Middle West To Drop Below 1938, Survey by Business Week Shows FARM Income in Wisconsin fell off four per cent during: 1939, first year of the Heil administration, as compared with 1938...
...State Farm Income Off by Four Pet...
...This newest survey by the business publication confirms its previous report, based on the first nine months of the year 1938, which was reprinted in The Progressive last fall...
...3 per cent increase Illinois...
...8 per cent increase Nebraska .........................13 per cent increase...
...5 per cent increase Iowa..............................12 per cent increase Missouri...
...Several cities are under advisement, all of them centrally located so as not to require too great a trip from any point in Wisconsin...
...7 per cent increase Michigan...
...But Wisconsin's showing in farm income luring 1939 was so poor that it pulled down the average of the west north central states...
...last year of the La Follette administration, according to a comprehensive survey of economic conditions published recently by Business Week, conservative magazine published for American business men...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
