GOP RELUCTANTLY LETS HEIL BE THE CANDIDATE
GOP Reluctantly Lets Heil Be The CAiidate Platform Confesses Numerous Failures During Heil Regime Boasting Governor Shouts He'll Tear 'Obnoxious Progressives' to Pieces in Campaign TRAPPED by...
...The platform adopted at the Republican convention was a remarkable admission of failures by the administration now in power...
...The Republican administration's action made the issue crystal clear in the approaching campaign the record of Heil and his crowd in office—and as such delighted Progressives throughout the state...
...Henry had announced that he would run for the Republican nomination for governor if he were endorsed at Green Bay...
...Heil left the convention with an endorsement of his record of office, but with no resolution urging him to run again...
...The 1938 platform promised that the Republican administration- would not appoint legislators to salaried state jobs...
...GOP Reluctantly Lets Heil Be The CAiidate Platform Confesses Numerous Failures During Heil Regime Boasting Governor Shouts He'll Tear 'Obnoxious Progressives' to Pieces in Campaign TRAPPED by their own fears that failure to endore the Heil administration might wreck the Republican party, GOP politicians, convened at Green Bay last week-end, reluctantly set the stage for Gov...
...The 1938 platform promised reduction in automobile licenst fees...
...Reason: Gov...
...One man who didn't wait to hear this outburst from the governor was Robert K. Henry, Jefferson banker, whose boom for the convention gubernatorial endorsement collapsed completely under the steamroller drive of Heil's personal machine...
...Morvin Duel and Assemblyman Reuben Peterson to $5,000 a year jobs as insurance commissioner and public service commissioner respectively...
...Heil to become the Republican candidate for governor again...
...Reason: The Republican administration killed every bill in the 1939 legislature which sought to slash the license costs...
...The 1938 platform promises no diversion of highway funds...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...Convention delegates shouted down an attempt by Joseph Walsh, Potosi, to write a cost production plank into the platform for farmers...
...Heil appointed and the Republican-controlled senate confirmed Sen...
...This 1940 platform was written by a committee of which Charles Voigt, Sheboygan, one of Heil's honorary colonels, was chairman...
...John E. Martin, and State Treasurer John M. Smith, but no mention was made of them and they were not urged to run for reelection...
...Convention proceedings disclosed that there will be no Republican-Democratic coalition in 1940 as there was in 1938 when reactionaries in both old parties ganged up to defeat the Progressives...
...A number of high-placed GOP strategists are opposed to having two millionaire manufacturers head the ticket for fear the public might not "understand" the party's practice of picking millionaire industrialists for high office...
...The 1938 platform promised increased old age pensions...
...Harry Thomas, Republican national committeewoman, for her "double-cross" In party affairs was booed and shouted off the floor...
...Net effect of all the manipulation at the convention, observers agreed, was the elimination of Henry as a contender for the gubernatorial nomination, leaving the field alone to Heil bv default...
...Reason: Gov...
...Joshua L. Johns, Appleton...
...The fact that Heil appears certain to be the Republican candidate for governor represented a severe setback for Clausen's senatorial ambitions...
...Frightened, Heil announced several weeks ago that he was for the open primary with no convention endorsements...
...Wisconsin Democrats convene at Green Bay this week-end and they will have their own slate of candidates in opposition to the Republican ticket...
...M. J. Eberlein, Shawano...
...In addition to Heil, all other state constitutional officers were present, including Lieut...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...Charles F. Smith, Wausau...
...The convention gave victory to Heil, but as newspaper men reported, it was a victory without honor, since only once, in 1928, has a Republican convention failed to endorse an incumbent governor who desired re-election...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...An attempt by Frederick Krez, delegate from Plymouth, to have the convention censure Mrs...
...A number of Republicans, including Fred H. Clausen, Horicon industrialist...
...Heil vetoed legislation which would have permitted increase in pension payments, and as a result, the state's needy aged are receiving an average of §22 a month instead of the promised $40...
...The 1940 platform is silent on the subject...
...Reason: The Heil administration has admitted that it is diverting more than $6,000,000 in road funds to balance its swollen budget...
...Walter S. Goodland, Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, Atty Gen...
...It was Important primarily for what if left out, rather than what it contained...
...His remarks were booed repeatedly, and he was eventually forced to sit down and see his amendment steamrollered to death...
...Bursting with confidence after the convention had done his bidding, Heil jumped to his feet and shouted that "some obnoxious" persons were running for governor on the Progressive ticket and he would "tear them to pieces...
...The Republican convention failed to produce a candidate for the U. S. senate nomination...
...Walsh was formerly the leader of the Union party in Wisconsin...
...maneuvered frantically for convention endorsement, but the delegates washed their hands of the whole business...
...and Cong...
...Heil's Milwaukee machine, aided by scores of men he has appointed colonels in the national guard, fought off every attempt to put the "squeeze play" on the governor, and through control of convention machinery, won adoption of a resolution praising the Heil administration in its entirety...
...For instance, Republican planks of 1938 on highway diversion, reduction of automobile licenses, increased old age pensions, and on appointment of legislators to salaried state offices were omitted entirely...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
