THE EDITOR SAYS
Evjue, William T.
The Editor Says By WILLIAM T. EVJUE LOOKING over the election returns: The election figures do not bear out the pre-election predictions of a light vote. On the basis of approximately 2,400...
...The authors of the pamphlet are concealed, however, and the fact that the pamphlet is clever Communist literature is hidden...
...Stalin feels that in order to further the purposes of his personal despotism, it is necessary to stand shoulder to shoulder with Hitler and to undermine in every way possible the prestige of Chamberlain and Daladier...
...Headquarters are at Hotel Patten...
...The Heil publicity agents will be quick to seize upon the Hoan defeat as an indication that the tide in Wisconsin is in the direction of the right rather than toward the left...
...Robert Taft of Ohio in deftly discussing the Wisconsin vote said: "The results in Wisconsin indicate a very substantial anti-Roosevelt sentiment...
...He has all the qualities that are needed id a dictator...
...We ask Bill if there is any likelihood that Hull could be persuaded to become the candidate for -oveinor on the Progressive ticket but Sanderson is noncommittal...
...If Hull runs for congress again, we hope that White will run against him...
...While he never made any public statement, it is known by Republican leaders in this state that Heil favored Vandenberg as against Dewey...
...On the basis of approximately 2,400 precincts out of 3,011 in Wisconsin, the total vote is approximately 610,000...
...Kenneth White cntertaind the childish whim that he can defeat Merlin Hull for congress...
...This can be attributed to two factors...
...It would be a good way to get rid of one of the most reactionary senators ever to respond to a roll call in the Wisconsin legislature...
...Democracy and religion, rural life, children, industry, civil rights, poll tax...
...But they indicate, senator, a very substantial Roosevelt sentiment, too...
...Hull...
...Bill Sanderson, secretary to Cong...
...These metropolitan political writers are hard-boiled, realistic fellows who quickly spot the pretense, sham and demagogucry in political candidates...
...Heil and his future prospects...
...Chamberlain and Dadalier are the new culprits...
...If I were to point out a man who might eventually become the man on horseback, I would point to Dewey...
...There was little in the Tuesday election returps for advocates of municipal ownership to cheer about...
...His record as speaker of the Wisconsin assembly and as secretary of state should be convincing evidence of his ability...
...A mayor pledged to a public ownership program was elected in Darlington while public ownership took it on the chin in Fennimore...
...A headache for Bill Carroll, Prairie due Chien, former state senator and a strong Garner man...
...Democracy in the south will be the theme of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare opening in Chattanooga April 14...
...During the week prior to the primary, this scribe met many of the political writers on eastern metropolitan newspapers who came here to size up the Wisconsin situation for their respective journals...
...The vote on the Roosevelt delegate slates was actually 50,000 less than the direct vote for Roosevelt at the head of the delegate column...
...Hull's popularity w:th the farmers of Wisconsin would make him a strong candidate for governor...
...This is Dan Hoan's first defeat in 30 years of going to the polls...
...He has few friends among the newspaper fellows who meet him and they have a better opportunity than the average citizen to get a line on a man...
...Merlin Hull is a man whom the Progressives could conscientiously put up as a candidate and they wouldn't have to cross their fingers in supporting such a man...
...Howard Lee...
...There were other thousands who were confused and who thought that making a cross opposite the name of Roosevelt was sufficient and did not drop down farther on the ballot to vote for Roosevelt delegates...
...Heil is reported to have made a sizable contribution to the Vanderberg barrel...
...There will be a scrambli on the part af those who want to know what is going to happen next fall to relate Tuesday's figures to Gov...
...The governor and his friends are pretty much limited, however, to the Hoan defeat for comfort out of this election...
...A proposal to license the sale of beer was overwhelmingly defeated...
...The Communists in the United States are furthering this Stalin plan by seeking to arouse prejudice againsLthe Allied leaders on the insinuation that they are attempting to draw American soldiers to Europe to fight the battles of the English and French imperialists...
...He is a man of sterling character, one of the best political organizers in the state/a good speaker, and one who has always stood for integrity and decency in government...
...Theodore Dammann, former secretary of state, failed in the attempt to make a political comeback by running as a candidate for city treasurer in Milwaukee...
...PASS THIS PAPKR ON It Will Win New Readers...
...Talk Democracy In Southern Meet CHATTANOOGA, Tenn...
...He has a Messiah and a mission complex, is intensely egotistical, domineering and arrogant...
...The followmg letter was received from a Progressive leader in Jackson county: "Wisconsin dairy farmers are watching the progress of* House Bill 6500 introduced by Cong...
...Roosevelt defeated Garner in Crawford county by a vote of 739-482...
...Here is what one of the outstanding political writers of the country said last week: "The Republican master minds are seeking to bring political dividends for themselves by picturing Roosevelt as a possible dictator...
...Perhaps that's one reason for the defeat,—over confidence...
...Sen...
...and rural life will be discussed, says Exec...
...Another letter from a political leader in St Croix county: "Sen...
...there was only a thin margin of three votes between victory and defeat for municipal ownership...
...There were thousands of voters who wanted to show their support of Roosevelt but who wouldn't vote for the reactionary Democrats listed on the two Roosevelt slates...
...Since Stalin joined.with Hitler, the Communists no longer center their attack on the Nazi dictator...
...The danger of a dictatorship in this country lies with the Republican party and not with Roosevelt...
...The remaining 700 precincts will boost the total to a figure between 650.000 and 700.000 which is not a light vote under the circumstances...
...Richland Center remains the -star dry city of the state...
...But there was a healthy public ownership vote in all four of these conservative Republican communities and in Bloomington...
...Oregon, Middleton, and Bloomington...
...Merlin Hull, comes in for a visit...
...The votes for city, town, and village candidates helped to swell the total...
...The pamphlet is a plausible argument against the entrance of the United States into the European war and particularly against the sending of any American boys to fight on European battlefields...
...Ed Branigan, the Beloit hell raiser, was elected supervisor from his ward...
...The fur will fly on the Rock county boara...
...CONSIDERABLE literature is appearing in Madison and throughout the state with the slogan, "The Yanks Are Not Coming," emblazoned on the cover...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
