Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-06
WIN
Elect Mayor and Majority of
the City Council at Mil
waukee.
AND BY A BIG MAJORITY
First Time That the Party Has Car
ried a Large City in the
United States.

Milwaukee, Wis, April e.-The so
cial democratic party, which swept Mil
waukee city and county yesterday,
give Emil Seidel, its candidate for
mayor, 7,1O9 plurality according to
complete returns. SeideIs plurality
is the largest in the history of Mil
waukee's municipal elections with the
exception of 1898, when David S. Rose,
democrat, had 7,S49.
Have the Council.
The new council is composed of 21
social democrats, 10 democrats and
republicans and the new board of sup
ervisors IL social democrats, repub-
licans and 2 democrats. Social demo
Gratis elected two of the seven civil
judges. Five other candidates were
elected on nonpartisan tickets.
BY Big Majority.
Milwaukee, Wis, April 6.-The
social democrats. led by Emil Sci
del, candidate for mayor, swept Mil
waukee in the municipal election yes
terday by approximately 5000 votes,
or 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 aldermen at large and
carried IA wards out of %. V. J.
Schoenecker, Jr., democrat, who ran
second, was about 5000 ahead of
DT. J. N. BeffeI. republican.
Platforms Similar.
The platforms of all three parties
were similar and advocated home
rule, initiative and referendum, and
regulation of the liquor traffic.
Victor L. Berger, national social
list leader, was elected alderman at
large.
Berger. who is dictator of his par
ty in Milwaukee, said in an inter
view on the result of the election:
This is the first time in the his
tory of the country that the social
democrats have carried a large city
All l. have to say at this time is that
the party will give Milwaukee the
best administration it ever had or
that any American city ever had. A
square deal for everybody will be
our aim
Socialism the Issue.
There was no real issue before
the people other than socialism. The
similarity of the three platforms in
the essential points that the social
lists throughout their campaign
charged that both the republicans
and democrats had stolen the social
list planks to make up their own plat
forms.
The campaign at the outset ap-
peared to be a simple prospect. with
Schoenecker easily the favorite. He
had the solid support of the demo-
cratic administration. which had held
the power in the city for 10 of the
last IL years.
VETS Rule in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Wis, April 6.-Wet
victories were the rule in the scores
of license elections held in Wiscon-
sin yesterday.
Notable in the list of cities which
refused to vote out license were Ra-
cine, Janesville, New Richmond, Bar
aboo, Platteville, River Falls, Wau-
paca, Galesville, Hudson, Monroe
and Trempealeau, while the most
important change from wet to dry
was Edgerton, wet two years ago
by 80, which went dry this year by
a margin of nine votes. Stoughton,
Lodi. viroqua and Cumberland re-
main dry.
New Richmond. which went wet
this year, was dry for nearly two
years, but few days ago court de-
cision was rendered that the city had
voted dry illegally. because of a
faulty election notice. The vote on
Tuesday. however, revokes the for
mer verdict of the voters.
Head of Iowa Grain Dealers Dead.