New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-07
PEOPLE ONLY BOSSES"
So SAYS MilWaukee's Socialist
Mayor-Elect.
NO GENERAL 0vERTURNlhG
Washington Comment-sooial-
lists May Succeed Two Re
nuh]inan Representatives.

Milwaukee. April s-"The first step OF
the Socialist Democratic party will be 70
reassure the people and relieve their minds
Of apparent fear that our victory means
the entire overturning OF business in This
city," said Emil Seidel. Nilwaukee's newly
elected Socialist Mayor. to-day.
There viii be no Utopia. no millennium,
none Of the wild antics that our opponents
have charged 70 US There will he no party
bosses. no one-msn policy. When We de-
eide upon a course 70 pursue. there will be
conferences with the other Socialists
elected. and the best lines will be followed.
We shall give every one IN the party a
chance 70 be heard and 70 voice his senti
ments. Our plans are nov in an embryonic
condition. so 7 cannot discuss them at
length. As to corporations. we shall make
them paw their share If the taxes and i'm
prove the lot Of the vorkinguen We will
do nothing revolutionary. nothing that
would turn the tide of sentiment against Us
IF any question arises which the admins
5raticn cannot handle will refer II 70
the electorate as whole After all they
are the only bosses Socialism has been
given a chance 70 show IT'S merits. We can
do this by insistent and consistent con
servatism. In a way We are on trial and
will show the people Of what metal We are
made.
This election was not the result OF one
campaign. 1t is the victory that comes
TO cause after twenty-six years Of the
hardest kind Of work We have flooded this
town with literature and have had men
on the stump i'm and out Of campaign times
educating the workingmen to the oppor-
tunities that lay before them.
We have not promised the workingrnen
of the city at large an immediate panaces
for ills. We have promised the best gov
eminent that We can give. and we are going
to live M to that promise"
Seldel received 7.1o9 plurality. according
to complete returns or about one thousand
fewer than Appropriated late last night
His plurality ia the largest in the history of
Milwaukees municipal elections. with the
exception of the election Of 1895, when
David 8. Rose. Democrat had 7s4s
The new Council consists of twenty-one
Social Democrats. ten Democrats and four
Republicans.
In tho new Board of Supervisors there
will be eleven Social Democrats. three Re
publiCans and two Democrats The Social
Democrats elected two out Of seven civil
judges.
The result of the election gives the So
cial Democrats practically complete power
in civic matters for the next two years
Washington. April s.--Ths election Of
Socialist Mayor in Nilwa ukee was the sub
iect Of much comment among members Of
Congress to-day. The Wisconsin Repre-
sentatives view II as momentous One Of
the most prominent of these went so far
TO say that the election Of the Socialist
Mayor might mean the election Of two
Socialist Consressmen from Wisconsin this
fall" He mentioned Carey and Stafford as
in danger. They are both Republicans
REPRESENTATIVE Morse. insurgent Republi-
CO n from the 10th Wisconsin District de-
Clared that the Socialist victory in Mil
waukee indicated "a revolt against the cor
pOration domino ton and control of the
Eastern Itne OF the Republican PARTY and
q lack IF faith IN Democratic professions"