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During a 1952 campaign meeting, Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Frank Zeidler was collared by a fuming woman who demanded to know why he was making her sell her house. Her real estate agent, she sputtered, had warned her to sell "because the mayor was going to move a Negro next door." It was then that Frank Zeidler first became aware of a whispering campaign that in the ensuing four years would grow until it is now the main obstacle to Zeidler's bid for a third term...
Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist. He has kept Milwaukee's bonded debt among the nation's lowest, kept its administration almost entirely clear of his fellow Socialists, once refused a council-voted increase in his own salary. He has shown a normal concern for racial problems -which are slight in Milwaukee with a Negro community numbering about 31,000 in a metropolitan population of nearly 1,000,000. Zeidler has created a human rights commission, plumped hard for public housing in Negro districts, and in 1952 (after a maniac...
Onetime Wisconsin Governor Phil La Follette, still smarting from the long feud between his family and the Journal, has vowed that he would rather have his children grow up "illiterate" than read the Journal. On the other hand, Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Frank Zeidler, who has been opposed as often as he has been supported by the Journal, has only respect for the paper: "The Journal is almost utterly dominant in the community. It's the intellectual life of Milwaukee. You discuss the issues the Journal raises [and] you hardly know of the existence of any other issues...
...mayor for 30 of the last 38 years, because Milwaukeeans have learned to vote on men and issues instead of parties. Says one of the city's leading politicians: "A Milwaukee Socialist is just a good, average guy. About the only thing publicly owned is the waterworks. Mayor Zeidler behaves more like a conservative Republican than a Socialist...
...Zeidler came to Boston to address the "Society for Municipal Planning." He spoke on the problem of expanding municipal government...