Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-07
SWEEPER SOCIALISTS
New Party Elects Mayor of Milwsu.
kee and Controls Council.
WILL NOW TRY OUT THEORIES
Platform Calls for Three-Cent Car
Fare, with seats for All, Cheaper
Gas and Work for Unem-
plOyed at Union waEes.

MILWAUKEE,, wis, April 6.-The So
cial-democratic party, which swept Mil
waukee city and county in yesterdays
election give Emil Seidel, its candidate for
mayor. 7,lO9 plurality according to complete
returns. or about 1000 fewer than approxi-
mated late last night from the incomplete
returns. Seldel's plurality is the largest
in the history Of Milwaukee's municipal
elections with the exception Of the cleo.
ton Of 1895, when David S. Rose, democrat.
had 7,Slg.
The total vote: seidel. 27,622; V. j.. Schoe-
necker. jr., democrat. 2O,5l3; Or. John NJ
Beffel, republican, u,262.
The new council consists Of twenty-one
socisl-democrats, ten democrats and four
republicans.
In the new board Of supervisors there
will be eleven social-democrats, three
republicans and two democrats.
The social-democrats elected two out of
seven civil Judges.
Ten bond questions, providing for various
city Improvements. carried.
The result Of the election in Milwaukee
gives the sociallst-democrats practically
complete power in civic matters for the
next two years.
Platform of Socialists.
NAalH 4 lS u btdleu DN lne So
cial-democrats, which they will now at
tempt 10 put into effect. In addition to
home rule for the city, the initiative and
referendum, for which all three parties
stood, additional measures which the So
cialists advocate include municipal own
ership, the sprlnkling Of streets by the
street railway companies over its various
lines, a seat for every passenger in street
cars, Scent street car fare, elght-hour
day for labor, cheaper gas, municipal light
plants, full share Of taxes by corporations.
cheaper bread, and work for the unem-
ployed at union wages at an eight-hour
day.
AS the street railway company has a
franchise which governs it's rate of fare,
and owing to the fact that the state rail
way rate commission regulates the matter
Of fares, the new political power in Mil
aux probably will not be able to bring
about any changes in this line.
Home rule cannot be brought into effect
unless through legislative enactment, which
failed at the last session of the legislature.
City Owns Gas Plant.
Milwaukee now has it's own municipal gas
plant and water works and efforts to es-
tablish a municipal electric light plant
some time ago were blocked through a legal
technicality with regard to bonds. This,
however, may be overcome under the new
administration
Mayor-elect Seidel does not look on the
victory as a personal one. The defeat Of
the capitalist party was foreordained be-
cause 1t stood on wrong principles" said
the new mayor.
Victor L., Berger, a prominent socialist
and a national character and also political
adviser to the mayor-elect, and who was
elected alderman-at-large, says the citizens
Of Milwaukee, even the moneyed interests,
need nave no fear during the socialists
regime. Everybody, he says, will get a
square deal. .-. .--
There will be a thorough cleaning out of
the city hall of persons who have held civic
power over a long period of years. Among
the more important positions to be filled
are those OF health commissioner, city en-
gineer, building Inspector, commissioner OF
public works. water register ana a mem
Der of the police and fire commission.