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...hard-boiled U. S. politics, Socialists generally rate as soft-boiled academics. Only a few, like Dan Hoan, who managed to hold Milwaukee for 24 years (see p. 22), have had any truck with practical politics. Persistently idealistic, the Socialist Party has become largely a wastebasket for disgruntled liberals to throw away their votes...
...corrupt U. S. cities Milwaukee in the early 19005 was one of the most corrupt. In 1916, its disgusted German-immigrant voters quit old-line parties and elected as mayor a tall, lanky, unkempt Irishman-a Socialist. So thorough a job of housecleaning did Daniel Webster Hoan do in Milwaukee that his townsmen re-elected him six times without a break. Under May or Hoan's 24-year administration, Milwaukee became one of the best-run cities in the U. S. Chief carping came from bankers, utility men, real-estate owners protesting that "Uncle Dan," bearing the Socialist label...
Socialism as an economic doctrine played little part in the reforms of efficient, practical Dan Hoan. In 1935 Socialists merged with Progressives, and Mayor Hoan ran for re-election as a member of the Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation. But "Red" was the whoop still raised by Milwaukee Republicans and conservative Democrats, and this year, with Dan Hoan up for re-election the seventh time, "Red" was the whoop they raised again. Republicans and conservative Democrats lined up behind his rival, a former assistant city attorney, Carl Frederick Zeidler...
Milwaukee's Hoan. Socialist Daniel Hoan grew pungent about what would happen in Milwaukee if WPA stopped: "There would be parades of hungry people through the streets. And they would be headed by Communists; that's the kind of fellows, you know, that get into these movements, and that means trouble...
...grew pungent also about turning relief back to the States: "I wouldn't want any Governor handling my funds, even if I were a Governor. It's too political. Governors always want to be Pres- idents. . . ." But Mayor Hoan, a Socialist whose boast is that his city budget balances, added that he wished for a pay-as-you-go WPA, financed by taxes, not bond issues! "Let me tell you, as an American citizen, it worries me, this going deeper and deeper into debt...