Show LODESTONE O. O OBSERVERS who have been waiting for the theS S Wisconsin primaries got the magic numBers numbers numbers num num- bers Vec Wednesday in the first incomplete tallies The Badger state as a lodestone was eyed by he w wiseacres as affording th the first test of the new third party movement The La Follette brothers Philip and Robert M. M r. r Jr heading g the file Progressives made a respectable showing 1 ut Dem Democratic cratic Governor won re- re nomination tion by a substantial majority in returns returns re re- re- re turns tunis from about bout half of the states state's voting pret pre- pre t s. s C The total Democratic vote yote cast in the precincts precincts pre pre- reporting gave the three candidates for gover governor or The Progressives gave or Philip La Follette Pollette and for Henry 0 O. a motorcycle policeman man a total of 91 The Republicans three candidates gar- gar ered The Thc senatorial race tace was left too much in the dark by the early figures to make speculation interesting r Worth orth noting is the thet t tally Uy y of William Villiam B. B Rubin Democrat and self- self f I ultra liberal who pronounced Schmede- Schmede man a reactionary He polled against t the e governors governor's J The government in Wisconsin has Jias given the Roosevelt ose administration wholehearted wholehearted wholehearted whole whole- hearted cooperation and in his Green Bay the president ht included Senator Robert l I. r. r La Follette Jr among his old friends whom he thanked en masse but not individually individually for their aid in ip putting through new deal programs grams S So if it us at all logical to regard Wisconsin Democrats and Progressives as the states state's liberals and the thc Republicans as its conservatives conservatives con con- there is isa a total of for leftists left left- i ts to contrast with the of the Republican Republican lican rightists f r I No Now Nov if th these s fig figures figures' res' res had bad come from any state in the union ex except ept Wisconsin th they y would have been far more significant For many years Wisconsin has been the thc country's political upon which has b been en tried just about all the experiments conjured by advanced thinkers in the realm of V sociology and p politics It i is not in the least surprising that the voters manifested pronounced at t the primaries It Would v uld have been s surprising lug ing if they had not It is is about as astonishing to read that Wisconsin has gone liberal as it would be to h hear ar that Vermont had gone Re Re- publican If it ha had been in Ohio Pennsylvania Illinois or y other state where the anchors V are are d deep ep down in the thc ancient party traditions it would have been significant |