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North of Milwaukee are two Wisconsin counties, Sheboygan and Manitowoc, and two ambitious German-born brothers, Charles S. Voight and Edward Voight. The two counties fit together nicely into one judicial circuit. The full-grown Brothers Voight cannot, however, be fitted together into the single circuit judgeship. So, since both Brothers Voight are determined to be circuit judge, political fratricide impends. Last fortnight bold Brother Edward Voight was reminding Sheboyganders and Manitowocians how he served five terms (1917-27) in the U. S. House of Representatives, ever faithful to La Follettism. Brother Charles S. Voight, on the other hand, happily...
Finally Signor Mussolini delivered a very suave but unmistakable warning to the Austrian Parliament. "A State which respects itself," he said, "cannot tolerate foreign interference. Mr. Fuller, the Governor of Massachusetts, has supplied us with a striking example on that subject...
...with a strong Government possessing ample powers but founded on the masses and keeping close to the masses. . . . All who have Fascismo at heart wish to create a regime whose ruling class can always draw from the people the men necessary to its constant renewal. . . . The problem of government cannot be solved by trusting in the illusory dogma of popular sovereignty, but it can be solved by the wise choice of a few leading statesmen...
This is Ritchie's issue. And the denouement for which he argues is a less precarious balance between Federal and State power, a strengthening of local governments, a subdivision of so called national problems into manageable units, "so that sectional differences and class conflicts which cannot be settled nationally will be settled locally and will disappear as intraparty discords...
...theme, ostensibly, which provides a possible basis of reunion for his badly shattered party. For it says to Democrats in all sections of the country: "If you cannot agree about prohibition or about any other contentious issue nationally, agree to disagree about it locally. Make this freedom to disagree, and this willingness to revive a healthy local sovereignty, the basis of your actions and the pillar of your strength. You have Jefferson's word that it is sound governmental policy, and your own experience to tell you it is sound common sense...