Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-07
Reassures People That Business
Will Not Be Overturned
in Milwaukee
PARTY IS NOW ON TRIAL
New Administration Pledged to
Make Changes to Better
Labor Conditions
Associated Press1

M ILWAUKEE, WIS, April u
M "The first step of the Socialist
4iL Democratic party will be to re-
assure the people and relieve their
minds of apprehension that our victory
means the entire overthrowing of bus
mess In this city," said Emil Seidel,
patternmaker and Milwaukee's newly
elected Socialist mayor, today. There
will me no Utopia, no millennium, none
of the wild antics that our oppo-
nents have charged to us. There will
be no party bosses, no one-man pol
icy.
when we decide on a course to pur-
sue there will be conferences with the
other Socialists elected and the best
lines will be followed.
1--WE shall give everyone In the party
a chance to be heard and voice his
opinions
our plans are now in an embry-
onic condition. so cannot discuss
them at length.
"As to corporations, we shall make
them pay their share of the taxes and
improve the lot of the worhngman.
1--WE will do nothing revolutionary.
nothing that would turn the tlde OF
sentiment against us.
'If any question arises which the
administration cannot handle, we Will
refer II to the electorate as a whole.
after all they are the only bosses.
Socialism has been given chance TO
show its merits. We can do this by
insistent and consistent conservatism;
an a way we are on trial and VIII
show the people of what metal we are
made.
RESULT OF LONG CAMPAIGN
This election was not the result OF
t1 "a
comes to a cause after twenty-slx
Years of the hardest kind of work. we
have flooded this town with literature
and have had men on the stump IN
and out of season educating the work
inemen to the opportunities tnat lfy
before them. -
eve have not promised the work.
inpmen or the city Mt large an imme-
date panacea for ills. We nave
promised the best government that we
can give and we are going TO i've up
to that promise"
Victor L. Berger, whose reputation
as a Socialist leader extends through
out the country. had this TO say ABOUT
the election: l.,
American history and any man or
woman who has helped to bring II
ahout will naturally feel proud. rms
is nobody's personal victory. IL is not
SeideI's: It Is not Berger's victory. IL
is a victory for principle, victory TOT
Jrogress-a little step toward a hlgnSt
nhase of civilization. It is the result
Of many years of hard work FOR the
education and enlightenment OF the
working class of Milwaukee"
seidel had a plurality of 7l09, ac-
cording to complete returns or about
10OO fewer than approXimated last
night from the incomplete returns.
L lan 10
history of Milwaukee's municipal elec-
tions with the exception of the cleo
tion of 1898. when David s. Rose Oem-
ocraD had 1S49.
The total vote.
Seidel 2l.622. oo-.,
schoenecker, Jr, (Democrat, 2O513:
DR. John NJ. Beffel CRepubiican' H.
9G2.
The new council consists of 21 Social
Democrats, 10 Democrats and Re
Tn the new board of supervisors
there will be II Social Democrats,
Republicans and 2 Democrats.
Ten bonding questions providing Tor
various city improvements carried.
PLANS or SOCIALISTS
In addition to home rule for the city,
initiative and referendum. for whlch
all three parties stood, the Socialists
advocated munlcIpdl OWlNl9 9iiiP' -"
snrinklng of streets by the street
railway companies; a seat for every
passenger in street cars; 3-cent street
car fares; eight hour day for labor;
cheaper gas: municipal ice plants; mu-
nicipal light plants; full shares OF
taxes by corporations; cheaper bread
and work for the unemployed at union
syages and an eight hour day.
AS the street railway company mas
n franchise which governs Its rate or
fare and owing to the fact that the
state railway rate commission regu-
lates the matter of fares, the new po-
litical power of Milwaukee will prob
ably not be able to bring about any
changes in this line.
Home rule cannot be brought into
effect unless through legislative enact
ment, which failed at the last session
of the legislature.
Milwaukee now has its own munich
nal garbage plant and waterworks and
efforts to establish a municipal light
nlant some time ago We're blocked
through "a legal technicality with re-
gard to bonds This, however, may be
overcome under the new administra-
tion.