WORRIED HEIL DENIES CLAIM OF ECONOMY
Worried Heil Denies Claim Of Economy Now Insists He Never Promised to Save $15,000,000 WORRIED by the collapse of his economy program. Gov. Heil last week denied for the first lime since he took...
...Henry, whose boom for the Republican guberatorial nomination was launched last week by his Jefferson county friends, is widely regarded as a potential contender for Gov...
...1938, at Milwaukee, Heil was quoted in every paper as saying: "I could save a whole lot of money —S10.000.000 to S15.000.000 a year...
...Henry said: "That's absolutely out...
...Subsequently...
...The spasmodic firing of low-paid state employes has hardly made a dent in the swollen budget of the Republican administration...
...But as for entering the race against Bob La B'ollette...
...The whole issue will be fought out at the Republican state convention in Green Bay May 31 when the badly di-rided factions decide whether they want to endorse candidates or sanction a wide open primary...
...For instance, in his opening campaign speech o.i July 21...
...But the fads are that Heil promised to save not S15.000.000 but $20,-000,000 to $30,000,000 for the bienni-um...
...Under no consideration will I Ik a candidate for the U. S. senate...
...The "economy" drive, for instance, has saved only a tiny fraction of the amount lost to the state when the Republican-controlled legislature voted handsome tax relief for telephone utilities and possessors of very large estates...
...This promise by Heil, fantastic though it was...
...Actually, his budget is more than SI.00,000 higher than the budget of the last Progressive administration, according to the estimates of his own financial experts...
...appeared in every newspaper in Wisconsin during the 1938 campaign...
...The salaries of those released are so small that they have no effect on the total financial picture, especially since so many high-salaried jobs have been created in recent years...
...He left the door ajar for a possible candidacy for the U. S. senate if he were jockeyed out of running for the governorship...
...I said I would save millions...
...Said Heil last week: "The papers say Julius said he would save $15,000,000...
...Heil's position...
...Henry Refuses to Run Against Bob La Foilette Jumping from Party to Parly, Banker May Oppose Heil ROBERT K. HENRY, Jefferson banker who jumps back and forth between the Republican and Democratic parties with the greatest of ease, announced last week that he postively would not run for the U. S. senate...
...Heii dropped any reference to the $10,000,000 a year and made it simply $15,000,000 a year, or $30,000,000 for the two year period for which he was elected...
...Heil was worried enough about Henry's gubernatorial ambitions to indicate that he wasn't absolutely sure he would run for a second term...
...I never said I would save $15,000,000...
...Heil last week denied for the first lime since he took office 16 months ago that he had promised in the 1938 campaign to slash state expenses by $15,000,000...
...Although the statement has been published hundreds of times throughout the state, Heil did not once repudiate the claim until last week when his budgetwas still running more than $1,000,000 higher than the last budget under Phil La Folleite...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 17
