The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-15
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
RADICALS AND THEORIES SLIPPING

Wisconsin, the state noted for it's progressive
| ord sociastic views shows signs of Slipping" So
FOR As the radical sentiment is concerned judging
| bv the returns of the elections held on April Z,
While Daniel w. Hoan, Socialist, was reelected
navor Of Milwaukee by a very narrow majority
for the seventh term, the Socialists lost " out OF
Of in the city council which it. is said, Will greatly
handicap the mayors program. Max Raskn, So
cialist candidate for city attorney asking re-eiec-
tion. was beaten by young Republican lawyer
Walter Madison, and the Socialist president OF the
eity council was defeated, as we'll as four members
of the county board.
The most significant signs of reversal OF pup
lie sentiment was evident however, from the re-
snts of elections held the question of municipal
ownership of utilities In Milwaukee, long under
Socialist Party control the proposal for the Pur-
chase by the city of the electric light utility, owned
bv the Milwaukee Railway and Light company, was
5afootad nv a vote Of approximately to j.
Am but two other Wisconsin communities voted
AGAINST proposals for municipal ownership. There
was proposal in the important, city Of Sheboygan
for the purchase by the city of the electric power
nlsrt Of the Wisconsin Power and Light company
This was decsively defeated by the vote OF I,4o9
~ / 045, ratio of to !. In the village of Cam
,21 against the proposal to have the municipality
purchase the Northern States power plant. Inc
village of Elkhart Lake voted III to u against the
proposal for the municipal purchase OF the electro
,nant now owned by the Wisconsin Gas and Elec-
tric company In Lincoln county the proposal Tor
the Tomahawk pubcly-owned power district was
defeated by vote Of 693 to 100, or nearly to l.
In only, two very small villages was the munlcl-
nal ownership idea approved, Cambria voted lS4
70 "a FOR the p,trchase of the electric light plant
+hss,rA while Oregon voted 235 to 204 for the &C
QUESTION of privately electric power plant
The results especially in Milwaukee, such
az To- lead MANY antSociast leaders to assert that
sentiment in Wisconsin is rapidly changing and
that there will be further turn against paternal
ism and socialism in the fall election. The election
of Mayor Hoah was regarded as q personal rather
thsnza partisan victory 49,.
In other parts of the nation there were also signs
of retreat from Socialistic trends. In Nashville
Tenn. the mayor and board Of works turned
thumbs down on the Tennessee Valley Administra-
ton proposal to go into the municipal power bust
ness the mayor contending that Nashville's power
from q privately owned plant is 80 per cent below
the average rate for the nation and that to con
str,iet q municipal plant would load another nine
million dollar debt ON the taxpayers already
hahehed backs and that in addition the taxpayers
woald have to shoulder the loss Of $25O,0oO taxes
nov paid the city by the private plant which would
not be, Forthcoming from a municipal or publicly
owned plant. And in South Dakota the state adj
closed it's state7owned coal mine which
it has attempted in vain for three years to dispose
of at any price. This venture, AS others in South
Dakota, was to save residents of the state thou
sands Of dollars in fuel bills, but it was, as other
publicly owned and operated projects, mere po-
htical manipulation that the people lost through
and grew tired Of They paid $4,000 for the
land, Structures and equipment and it was finally
sold at $5,5O0-Natonal Republic -