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...faithful Lieutenant Governor Herman Ekern, the Governor supported Mr. Ekern against Mr. Amlie, although he tactfully refrained from making any speeches. Candidate Ekern trounced Candidate Amlie last week after a bitter Progressive primary, in which Amlie also had the support of Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan. This raised the possibility that when Progressive Ekern brings the La Follette fight on the New Deal into the open against Democratic Senator F. Ryan Duffy in November, the Federation and Governor La Follette may fight...
...present system and are for a workers' democracy, it is again a cowardly compromise with Bolshevism, for they would rather have used the phrase 'dictatorship of the pro letariat' if they had dared." Weakest faction was the Left's Centre, led by Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, whose chief desire was for peace-in-the-party. No aid to peace was the presence at Cleveland of Earl Browder, head of the U. S. Communist party, who appeared with a polite proposal that the Communists and Socialists unite on a ticket for 1936 to be headed...
Unsatisfied with Daniel Hoan's victory at the polls last week was many a Milwaukee Socialist, who thought that the Mayor had spent too much time campaigning for himself, too little for the rest of his badly beaten Socialist ticket...
Your article pictured Mr. Hoan as the highly educated savior of our city; whereas Mr. Shinners is a rough-and-tumble uneducated person who has nothing to recommend him except his hulk. Apparently some seventy or eighty thousand residents of Milwaukee think otherwise It must be a great source of satisfaction to you and to Mayor Hoan that after 20 years of service he was only able to be elected by the skin of his teeth...
...twelve other Socialist candidates for the council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John Shinners-a majority only one-third as large as that non-Socialist city gave its famed Marxist Mayor...