DEMOCRATS SAD AT CONVENTION IN GREEN BAY
Revell, Alfred
Democrats Sad At Convention In Green Bay Reactionaries 'Endorse' Roosevelt for Third Term Bv ALDRIC REVELL GREEN BAY. Wis.—In one of the most listless and dispirited conventions in its history,...
...This group is holding a platform convention in Madison June 15-16 The resolution endorsing Pies...
...Roosevelt in the past had shown more favoritism for the Progressive party than for them...
...The resolution calling for an open primary said: "Whereas the Democratic party has always championed anil practiced the free expression of public opinion In the process «T government, and whereas the Democrats of Wisconsin being sincere disciples of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Pres...
...Roosevelt's lose its social gains in the present emergency...
...endorsed Pres...
...The entire convention was a sad spectacle of bewildered Democrats clinging to the coat tails of Pres...
...The nominal ions committee, under the chairmanship of Miles McNally, New Richmond, had brought In a resolution suggesting a list of candidates for stale office, but recommending no one for the U. S. scuttle...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt and urge that he continue as the standard bearer of the Democratic party in this campaign of 1940...
...Louise Givan...
...The 656 out of 803 delegates present failed to display a single spark of enthusiasm and strangely enough, three speakers at various times took pain., to point out that Pres...
...Milwaukee, for her work as national committeewom-an...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the dictum (hat the will of the people should be the law of the land, therefme be It resolved thai this convention go on record in favor of an open primary...
...Other 'I'Milul Inns adopted endorsed the record of Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan, national committeeman, and urged him to serve in that capacity for another four years: commended Mrs...
...Roosevelt for a third term, voted for an open primary, and "suggested" a list of 20 candidates for the U. S. senate and state offices...
...Roosevelt, a man they praise during election years but repudiate at every legislative session when Democratic legislators join forces with the Republican party...
...Roosevelt said: "Whereas our president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, came to power in the midst of a national emergency created by the breakdown of our democratic, social and economic '.vstcm, and whereas our president has met that emergency, and whereas our nation is now fared with a still greater emergency, international in si-ope, calling for continuance of the best leadership in America, now therefore be It resolved that this convention endorse Pres...
...The group known as the Democratic party organization of Wisconsin, headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton, which is the self-styled liberal wing of the party, was not present...
...Adopt No Platform The convention did not adopt any platform, but passed a resolution pledging the candidates for office to support the national platform and any state platform that might be adopted...
...authorized the convention chairman to name a committee of five to assist the state central committee in setting up a state-wide campaign organization...
...Wis.—In one of the most listless and dispirited conventions in its history, the Democratic party here Saturday endorsed Pres...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
