WISCONSIN POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
WISCONSIN POLITICS [By ALDRIC REVELL] THE Vandenberg delegates are still gasping like landed fish on the banks, while the Dewey delegates are swimming toward the Republican convention in...
...A sort of political Ann Sheridan...
...2 primaries...
...DELEGATES KNOWN By and large, the vote piled up by the Dewey delegates was due in some measure to the fact that many of the delegates were well known in their communities...
...The whole situation fits into a neat little pigeon hole...
...These local considerations, added to the fact, mentioned above about the public's relish for the young and the unusual, totalled up a victory for the Dewey delegates...
...We doubt whether the patient citizens of the state could stand the strain...
...is clover...
...He said he would be content to stand on his record...
...Finally there is Benny Gettelman, who polled more than 23.856 votes in the fifth district...
...FILLED WITH RAMIFICATION The election results, as Gov...
...Chances are that Mr...
...There is an old saying that you fcan't keep a good man down...
...Vandenberg, like King Canute of old...
...Think back for a while about the men Republicans in Wisconsin have had to vote for as president...
...Fred R. Zimmerman...
...Ernest Heden, Ogema...
...Republicans were ripe for someone with glamor...
...Besides, the thumping beating that former Secretary of State Theodore Dammann took in Milwaukee as a candidate for city treasurer, ought to make Zimmerman's future as secretary of state a little more secure...
...The biggest ramification is the vote compiled by that champion of the people, that suave man about the ballot box...
...It didn't matter that he was felt by nobody...
...stayed in Washington and commanded the tide to stand still...
...What Zimmerman thinks today might be something entirely different...
...It all boils down to this: The Republicans in Wisconsin went to the show and preferred the Mickey Mouse to the feature picture...
...They Want Kids To Work 12 Hours TRENTON...
...Heil would say, are filled with ramifications...
...There ought to be a law against this sort of thing, which can get out of hand...
...Please use your imagination as to what is likely to happen when a warhorse gets a dose of adrenalin In the form of 180,000 votes...
...While the overwhelming victory of Dewey and his 24 delegates was a surprise, it certainly was no surprise that Dewey was scheduled to come out ahead...
...Thomson will now look to Washington...
...He can now sit on his record all by himself...
...He probably will make the run for congress Not only Thomson, but others on the slate, overwhelmed by the number of votes they received, will start thinking of making a public career of politics...
...N. J.—Low wage employers swung into action last week and Induced the house of the legislature to amend child labor legislation to permit 12-year-old children to work 10 hours a day...
...PLAIN AS THE ANGEL It isn't too hard for a person who once read the table of contents of a book on mass psychology, as this writer did, to interpret what happened in the Dewey-Vandenberg contest...
...and Julius Spearbraker, Clintonville...
...It comes with ill grace from some of them to accuse Progressives of being responsible...
...Zimmerman is an o!d political warhorse...
...For instance, there were two state senators, Bernhard Gettelman of Milwaukee and Otto Mueller of Wausau...
...Dewey, on the other hand, was just plas'.cred with it, like a sorority wall on the eve of a homecoming football game Dewey's name appeared in the papers every day...
...The dashing young racket-buster, on the eve of the primaries ran around the state as though he were looking for Lepke...
...Assemblyman Thomson, 1939 speaker of the assembly, led his district with 18.134 votes...
...1 Zimmerman had made his mind up to run for re-election of secretary of state At that time Zimmerman was eon-vinXrT.ted be could be re-elected to his present post and was quite content to remain there...
...Borah, they were all staid, conservative, and perfectly innocuous and colorless individual...
...WISCONSIN POLITICS [By ALDRIC REVELL] THE Vandenberg delegates are still gasping like landed fish on the banks, while the Dewey delegates are swimming toward the Republican convention in Philadelphia, as a result of the Apr...
...and more important, his face became as familiar to the average citizen as the buffalo on a nickel...
...It can bo said without fear of contradiction that on Apr...
...Vandenberg has as much color as a frightened albino...
...He came to Wisconsin and was seen by thousands...
...France's contribution to the art of wrestling...
...The Republicans now have Dewey...
...It just proves that if a wneel horse remains in the pasture, all he'll ge...
...It is as plain as the face of "The Angel...
...In his radio speeches he was heard by thousands...
...We have a hunch that Zimmerman will be content with the bird in the hand and not start out on any safri into the bush...
...There were also three assemblymen, Vernon Thomson, Richland Center...
...Dewey came to Wisconsin and set a tide in motion for himself...
...After all...
...Vandenberg, on the other hand, tried to pull the "holier than thou" line, saying he had important matters to attend to in Washington and if the people wanted him they knew his record...
...With the exception of Sen...
...After the primaries, Vandenberg mast be pretty tired of standing...
...Well you can't keep Benny down either, and he -In't so good, to lapse into the vernacular...
...Whether Zimmerman will now set his rap for the U. S. senator-ship or whether during his long political career some modicum of reason has penetrated his thi.iking, remains to be seen, as the lifeguard said when looking over the 2940 bathing suits for women...
...Give Benny a vote and he'll take a powder for higher office...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
