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...deep concern he felt. South Dakota's Tom Berry, a broad-brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms...
...debtor beats relentlessly upon political ears. At Logan, Iowa, last week 400 farmers forcibly halted another mortgage foreclosure sale. At Sidney, Neb. farm leaders prepared to march 200,000 irate debtors to the State Capitol at Lincoln and "tear it down" unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey the proclamation. At Grand Meadow, Minn. a cousin...
...Only 17,000 Democrats voted in their party primary in 1930, compared to 450,000 who cast their ballots for Al Smith two years before. Last week more than 125,000 Demo-rats walked out on Governor La Follette to nominate their own candidates?Madison's Mayor Albert George Schmedeman for Governor and Francis Ryan Duffy for Senator...
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...