New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-06
New Party Sweeps Milwaukee
in City Election.
TAFT A NEW STATE ISSUE
Candidate for Governor Bases
Platform on Support of
Administration
IBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. !

BY Telegraph 10 The lFlhune
Milwaukee. April Social Democrats.
led by Emil Seidel. as candidate for Mayor.
swept Milwaukee in the municipal election
to-day by approximately 5000 votes. the
largest plurality OF any party in a similar
contest in the history of the city
The Social Democrats will control the
Common Council. having elected all six al
dermen-at-larse and carried fourteen
wards on; of twenty-three. Y ]. schoe-
necker. jr.. Democrat. who ran second
was about scco ahead OF Or. !. VI. Benel.
Republican
The platforms OF all three parties were
similar. They advocated home rule. militia
tive and referendum and regulation OF the
liquor traffic.
Emil seidel. Mayor-elect. said Of the out
come:
The result means that the people have
decided to take charge of the affairs of
the city themselves, after many years of
misrule. Our long years of educational
work has produced the expected results.
and hereafter the intelligent working
classes in Milwaukee will always insist on
having the controlling voice in the manage
ment of city affairs
Following are some Of the subjects the
Social Democrats are pledged to Introduce
into the city government:
Home rule for the city.
2-InitiatiVe and referendum.
Better schools.
Municipal ownership.
Penny lunches
6-Streetcar company to sprinkle streets
Trade union conditions OF labor.
~ n,t sea, for every PASSENGER in the street
e-Three-cent streetcar fare.
l0-Eight-hoUr day for labor.
11-Chesper gas
l2-Chesper ice by means of municipal plant
1S-Cheaper coal and wood by means Of mu-
nicipal coal and wood yards
l4-Cheaper and better highland more Of It
oF means OF municipal plant
Io-CcTporations 70 pay their fun share 81
Ie-clean streetcars. Glasgow. cleans and dis
infects cars every DAY. IL is pointed out
I5-SIreet closets and comfort stations.
ls-Work for the unemployed ~ union wages
19-Widows who do washing for support Of
families 30 have water rates RENTED by city.
2O-Cheap bread. by requiring standard weight
Outside of Milwaukee the interest
throughout the state centred in the vote
on the question of vet or dry The
vets" were victorious in a large number
of cities and towns. including all the larger
cities The Prohibitionists won over five
villages ar1 retained a dozen others.
Victor L. Berger. a leading Social Demo
orat. was elected aIderman-at-large. Mr..
Berger, who is leader of his party in Mil
Wduhee. SAID or the election.
This is the first time in the history ~
the country that the Social Democrats have
carried large city. All have 70 say At
this time is that the party will give Nil
waukee the best administration II ever had.
or that any American CITY ever had. -
square deal for everybody will be our aim. D."
Seekers plurality is estimated to be about
$500 His election If attributed 70 the dis
Of ba Old
La Toilette fsctional fight
Seidel had been prominent as an agitato~
and the fight appeared at the start 10 he
between him and Schoenecker As the cam
paign advanced, however. Beliefs ,IanCes
frightened, until the final day Of the cam
paign. and in fact I'D to O'Clock to-nigb-
the decision seemed 10 rest between him and
the Socialist
The Republican efforts. however. were
not enough 70 overcome the strength Of So
cialism gained during the years when tire
La Toilette Stalwart fight in the RepubH-
can party had so torn the Republicans that
many Of both factions had drifted n the
Socialist ranks. The Socialist victory :
really not a Social Democratic victory but
the election OF workiingman Socialist hv
Social Republicans.
new issue was raised in Wisconsin to
day. when fifth candidate came out for
the Republican nomination for Governor.
Hitherto the chief issue has been county
option, three Of the present aspfrants being
avowed advocates of prohibition laws +
T Fairchild. present state Senator. how
ever. while opposing county option de
clsres that the issue Of the campaign
should be the greater question Of whether
Wisconsin should be A supporter Of the
Taft legislative programme and sdminstra-
ton
The platform has instantly brought Fair
child into prominence as the strongest can
didate against Captain William Mitchell
Lewis the millionaire automobile manu-
facturer. who declared that his was not a
case Of the office seeking the mar but of
the man seeking the office. as every man
has a right to do. The Lewis candidacy
is understood 10 he in the interest Of Sens-
tor La Toilette, the Fairchid candidacy
becomes an anti-La Toilette campaign il
would appear, with the Taft administration
the real issue.