STATE VOTE IS PROOF OF FDR STRENGTH, VIEW
Revell, Aldric
State Vote Is Proof of FDR Strength, View Wisconsin Liberals Are Firm In Support of President By ALDRIC REVELL With returns from last week's election almost completed, three outstanding...
...Company Unions Aided, Savs Woll NEW YORK CITY— The government's anti-trust drive threatens to destroy trade unionism in the U. S., Matthew Woll, third vice president of the AFL, said at a luncheon of the Kiwanis club...
...Although the question was never in doubt, Wisconsin liberals once again revealed they stood firmly back of Pres...
...While this still leaves the question of the state going Republican or Democratic in November up in the air, it bodes no good for the Progressive party in the coming state elections...
...Republicans, counting the 301,863 votes compiled by the two highest candidates for Dewey and Vandenberg, as well as the 85,489 polled by Garner as anti-third term votes, assert that Roosevelt could not carry Wisconsin if he became a candidate...
...Roosevelt more than tripled the 85,489 vote compiled by anti-third term forces who backed Garner...
...It must be apparent, even to state Democratic leaders, that if Wisconsin is to remain in the Democratic column as far as the presidential race is concerned, both factions must get together and bury their animosities...
...Earned Voice, Claim Criticized by Broughton as an "illegal" and "rump" group of disgruntled Democrats, the Keller organization, with the backing of Progressives, has shown it deserves a voice in the state Democratic party...
...2. The strength of the Republicans...
...Had Roosevelt openly stated he would be a candidate for a third term the vote w-ould have been much heavier...
...With a vote of 262.325 from incomplete returns, Pres...
...This remarkable showing on the part of the Keller group should prove to state Democrats that the time had arrived for a purge of their party...
...Progressives and Democrats only polled 45.951 more votes than the Republicans, on the basis of returns thus far...
...When the state election comes around, Democrats will have a state ticket, as will Republicans and Progressives...
...Yet more than 262,000 persons indicated they would support the president for a third term...
...Not a Candidate While many have interpreted this vote as showing that Roosevelt's popularity is waning, since he compiled more than 400.000 votes in the 1936 election, it must be remembered that In 1936 Roosevelt was an avowed candidate...
...It must be remembered that if Roosevelt is a candidate the Democratic machine will be supporting him, willy-nilly, and Garner supporters would have more to gain by staying within their party than bolting to the Republicans...
...This interpretation is highly optimistic, since the Garner votes are still Democratic votes and it is more likely they would return to the Roosevelt column than go into the Republican column...
...The Dewey landslide proved that Vandenberg supporters made the fatal mistake of seeking to put their man across on his record...
...On the basis of the Republican showing this week, it is possible that the tables will be turned and Republicans will sweep the state elections with Progressives and Democrats splitting the vote...
...State Vote Is Proof of FDR Strength, View Wisconsin Liberals Are Firm In Support of President By ALDRIC REVELL With returns from last week's election almost completed, three outstanding developments have emerged...
...They arc: 1. The amaiing popularity of Pres...
...Judge Peyton Gordon in Washington upholding the use of the anti-trust laws in jurisdictional disputes...
...The third significant development is the partial repudiation of the state organization of the Democratic party...
...The best available returns from the Associated Press indicate that the Broughton slate will win 13 delegates, the Keller slate nine and the Garner slate two...
...The repudiation comes about by the fact that despite official backing, through visits of Leo T. Crowley to Wisconsin, Wisconsin voters elected a great many members of the Democratic Party Organization of Wisconsin slate who had vigorously campaigned against Broughton...
...Roosevelt...
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...From 1930 to 1938, Progressives always carried state elections by having Democrats and Republicans split the votes for their respective candidates...
...as it appears, there is a definite trend toward Republicanism, the smart money at this time will be placed on the state GOP...
...The majority of voters in Wisconsin, as elsewhere, care little for records, especially as obscure ones to them as Vandenberg's, and instead support the tub-thumper and the man who gets his picture and name in the newspapers...
...3. The partial repudiation of the slate Democratic leadership of Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan, National committeeman...
...Roosevelt never announced he wanted a third term, and he made no effort to get Wisconsin voters to support him...
...He attacked in particular a recent decision of Dlst...
...Shows GOP Strength Assuming that most of the Progressives went into the Democratic primary, the showing made by the Republican party cannot be minimized...
...The drive has "thrown the cloak of protection around company unions in spite of the fact that congress expressly recognized that the company union has been a fertile source of Industrial strife," Woll said...
...Thus far, returns indicate that the 24 delegates will be almost split between the official slate of Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan national committeeman, and the "maverick" slate of Gustave Keller, Appleton insurgent...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
