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...Wisconsin, a great manufacturer (plumbing), Walter J. Kohler, was elected Governor. This was a certainty after he had won in the primaries against the traditional La Follette power. Any Governor in a politically doubtful State may become nationally conspicuous-and such a fate was freely predicted for this Business-man-in-politics...
Senator LaFollette had declared against Walter Jodok Kohler, regular Republican candidate for Governor. LaFollette's Progressive Republican wing was backing the Democratic candidate, Albert George Schmedeman, Madison's mayor...
Whatever crystallizes in Wisconsin next fortnight will be memorable. Walter Jodok Kohler, welfare-working plumbing man, will probably be elected Governor. Young Bob will almost certainly be re-elected Senator. There will be fights all down the line for other offices, the bitterness of which is daily being transmitted to the Presidential campaign in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska, where LaFollettism's determined foster-father, Senator George William Norris, was last week preparing an "important announcement" for his coming national radio hookup. Afterwards...
Walter Jodok Kohler, the G. O. P.'s gubernatorial nominee in Wisconsin, sped to Washington to see Nominee Hoover. What he said about Mrs. Willebrandt was not revealed. Newsgatherers plagued Dr. Hubert Work, the G. 0. P.'s chief spokesman. This colloquy ensued...
Wisconsin. All night long the Wisconsin Republicans wrangled in a state convention. The factions were the old-time LaFollette progressives and the followers of Walter Jodok Kohler, plumbing fixture tycoon, Hooverite nominee for Governor. At dawn the Kohlerites had forced an endorsement of Hooverism-the first time in 20 years that the Wisconsin Republicans have been "regular" in a presidential election...