STATE POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
State Politics The Dead Democrats Carroll for Senator The Menomonie Freckle EES3BS THE jackass has always been the symbol of the Democratic party but after the sad spectacle put on by state...
...Which half should be which is immaterial, irrelevant and doesn't make any difference anyway...
...He has a booming voice unusual in such a pint-sized individual...
...As was to be expected, the staff around which the boys all rallied with hoots and with howls was the Imposing Pres...
...While Atty...
...unless Roosevelt again drags tiv party from the cellar, the boys will return to the oblivion they so Justly deserve...
...Roosevelt personally endorsed the entire state ticket from U. S. senator down...
...In typical fashion, the Democrats voted for'an open primary on one resolution and five minutes later voted to endorse or "suggest" candidates In another resolution...
...The Menomonie freckle was nominated as a candidate for attorney general but declined, asserting he would not run unless Pres...
...Instead ol a conve n t i o n the Democrats fo u n d themselves attending a wake In order to get an ade-quale symbol...
...Carroll, however, had other ideas, and immediately had it amended to include suggestions from the floor for TJ...
...State Politics The Dead Democrats Carroll for Senator The Menomonie Freckle EES3BS THE jackass has always been the symbol of the Democratic party but after the sad spectacle put on by state Democrats at their state convention at Green Bay recently, this symbol is no longer a d e -tjuate...
...The animal, however, probably considered there were too many jackasses around because he gave vent to his feelings to no uncertain terms and had to be hurriedly escorted from the hall...
...Prairie du Chien...
...Several ward-herlers popped up and announced that Roosevelt should be argued into endorsing the entire stye and national ticket in Wisconsin The Hell administration was soundly scolded, but it never entered the her da of anyone to scold the Democratic legislators who aided the administration in passing laws injurious to labor and the taxpayer That would have been logical and a logical Wisconsin Democrat is as rare as a piece of fat on Mahatma Gandhi...
...Gerald Clifford, Green Bay keynoter, shouted tribute to Roosevelt the delegates awoke long enough to take a stab at some applause...
...The 1940 Arizona "cotton king" Is Srm Joy of GIrndale, who harvested j 728 pounds of American-Egyptian cot- j ton per acre on his 40-acre farm...
...Donley banged his wrists together as a sign of applause, and occasionally went to the length of striking the palm of his left hand with the last joint of the inde:: finger of his right hand, a remarkable tour de force on the freckle's part...
...He stood on one foot and shouted, stood on tip toes and shouted, bpnt his knees, waved his hands and still he could hardly get a rise out of the delegates...
...S. senate...
...The resolution calling for "suggesting" candidates said nothing about candidates for the TJ...
...up in crust...
...Carroll will continue to lead the party during the time he is not campaign-in:: for office and after the fall eam-paltrn...
...BANGED HIS WRISTS Not to be out of the running...
...One of Ihese good days when he is holding forth on a platform an echo will bounce back and knock him over...
...So somnolent were the delegates that had someone dropped a pin in the hall, some delegate certainly would have stood up and cried, "I second the nomination...
...No one has asked Cudahy if he would be a candidate and the last heard from Cudahy was having his hands full in Belgium...
...We feel sure the president will make a special trip to Wisconsin to accommodate Donley...
...If the Democratic convention at Green Bay was not dead, then the chamber of commerce should have explained where the persistent odor came from during the gathering...
...William D. Carroll...
...What Donley lacks in size he make...
...The Democrats also nominated U. S. Ambassador John Cudahy for the 17...
...In back of Clifford, on the platform, sat former Assemblyman Willis E. Donley, the Menomonie freckle and Roosevelt-hater...
...whose office as chairman of the slate central committee should keep him out of personal politics, maneuvered the convention into endorsing a slate of 20 candidates...
...Poor Clifford did his best to arouse the crowd (about 600) from their lethargy...
...The applause given Carroll's name wouldn't have awakened a titmouse from a light sleep...
...He certainly would get more votes than Carroll...
...La Follette...
...Democrats should have half jackass and half Dodo bird...
...Some individual during the convention sought to lend some color to a drab afternoon by bringing a live jackass into the convention hall...
...S. senate since it is the idea of many liberal elements in the party not to put up any opposition to Sen...
...Rubin's name was among those suggested as a candidate for that office...
...REAL JACKASS LEFT By this time the real Jackass had been carried out of the hall so the importance of this nomination failed to receive the response it deserved...
...Thus the blunderers met, bored each other and returned home none the wiser than when they left it...
...It was evident at the convention that everyone feared Roosevelt would support Bob La Follette as he did in 1934...
...Roosevelt whom state Democrats like as a brother on election years and as Southerners love Sherman on off election years...
...The echoes of Carroll's voice had hardly died away when one of his stooges jumped up and placed his name in nomination for the senate...
...S. senate...
...A PALE PEACH Naturally, the perennial candidate for governor, William B. Rubin, Milwaukee, was present...
...Friends of Joe Davies must have considered it a slight that Joe was not mentioned and the delegates from Green Bay were certainly, lax in not presenting the name of Jean Nicolet...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 25
