| Show Inside Stuff Y B By PAUL MALLON MILWAUKEE MIL Sept 25 The 25 The answer answer answer an an- to most of oC the third party talk lies hidden in the minds of LaFollette La- La Folletto Follette Freres There may may be some unorthodox tangents Townsend wealth shares etc in the next election but even Ward Heelers La Follette know the La Fol Fol- Roosevelt lettes are the ones Pa Pact t Se Seen n to fear now that Huey Long is gone jone They have one of the two third parties now controlling a a state The Labor Farmer party in Minnesota has no comparable national national national na na- na- na reputation and would follow the La but cannot do much without them A friend asked the junior member member mem mem- ber of the firm Governor Phil La LaFollette LaFollette Follette about this matter the other day The governor backed away smirked wisely and then slowly wagged his head from front left to right and back again He did not need to say more It Itis is hardly a secret in these parts that that- the La have an Unspoken unspoken unspoken un un- spoken but rather definite backstage backstage backstage back back- stage understanding with President Roosevelt They will get anything they want within reason in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and Mr Roosevelt will vilI get Wisconsin if they can arrange it t tand and and they probably can It may seem to outsiders that the theLa theLa La sometimes s publicly brush Mr Roosevelt the wrong way and vice versa Notably Mr a Green Bay speech a year ago which are two seemed to bi be be- be bea a Looks Ahead subtle rub against to 1910 19 them But there Gov Pull Phil Pulling ing factors which make such demonstrations demonstrations demonstrations dem dem- appe appear r to be stage play One Is b that Mr Roosevelt is personally personally per per- fond of Phil PhU and Bob particularly particularly particularly par par- Phil PhU The other is that Phils Phil's fri friends have in the back of their minds the idea that he is presidential and that 1940 is coming If Phil hi himself has has' not considered the the- possibility he he has at least heard it mentioned You can get the right inside slant when you learn that Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins has has' loaded up that organization tion with La Follette men leaving the tho Democratic organization tion out in inthe inthe inthe the cold The Tiie Democratic machine in this state Is a Model T. T There is s nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing to it but a ste steering ring wh wheel I and that of course is Mr Roosevelt The business clement element here as in Chicago is overwhelmingly dissatisfied dissatisfied dissat dissat- but the regular Republicans are too downtrodden to do much ab about ut it Former Governor Kohler of Kohler Kobler who furnished the only substantial Republican plumbing fixtures this state has had in years has gone back to making them for public sale He intends to keep on doing that There ere will wUI probably be a Kohler- Kohler pledged delegation sent to the next Republican c co o 0 n- n but it will G. G O. O P. P is il only be a Dispirited ment merit for tor past fa fa- fa- fa vors Note The Note The secretary of the RepUblican Republican Republican Re Re- publican state central committee polled committeemen about presIdential presidential preferences The result reBul re recently recently recently re- re was Kohler 29 Borah Bomb 21 Knox 8 Landon 5 4 Lowden 2 Dickinson 1 and Hoover 1 The Knox people are are beginning ng to work quietly No one had the heart to sa say so I at the tho time but that Chat convention of young Democrats here w was LS considerably consid consid- less Ie than a howling success the excuse was that arrangements arrangement were made in expectation that Mx MIj Roosevelt would attend The Tho plan was to accommodate ato 1 but ut th top count of young and old including including including ing spectators was A Socialist here does not meathe mean mea the same thing as in Columbus in-Columbus Circle Cir Cir- cle dc- dc New York City Milwaukee has a a. Socialist mayor the but but the streetcar lines and the public pub pub- lie lic utilities are privately owned This is more than tha socialists can be said o ot of Become man many a Demo Demo- Practical cratic and Republican Republican lican town The Th official explanation is that the mayor may may- or docs not control the city counci council but an unofficial one is that Social Social- Socialists Socialists become practical like everyone else when they get elected Incidentally Phil La Follette Follette's one-man one brain trust is also a So So- Financial Financial Secretary Thomas Duncan The secretary had to was wash off his Socialist and become become become be be- come a member of of- the Progressive party to get the job A Kansas A-Kansas e editor went editor went nt into a farm town in north Wisconsin recent recently on a Saturday night There were so 80 many new new autos autos at the curb that tha ho he thought it was a n convention o of dealers He found it was only th the farmers in town for week-end week shop shop- ping He talked to a few of them found these were the first new carthey cars car they had had hadin in years And mos most of the tho farmers were under the impression im im- un- un that President Roosevelt person personally lly was responsible Believe it or Ot not beer did no not bring Milwaukee back The breweries brew brew- cries eries are steaming b but t they employ r relatively few men in comparison with the large number of unemployed The brewers biewer did very little new building Familiar sign here 10 oz ox glass of b beer cr l 5 cents also Roast beef bee sandwich 5 cents But carfare Is 10 cents Streets arc are well filled business i Is hi better but nothing to whoop about abou m machine chine tools must come como back beCore before before be be- fore Core Milwaukee does there thero ar armany are many vacant stores off oft the main mai str street et The nation is supposed supposed tobe to be he warr warring warring war war- r ring ng against crime but there has not been a a murder among these quiet German Swiss Swi s an and Polish family folk tolk since last January Jan Jan- uary One man overestimated hi his capacity for schnapps one night am and choked his wife but that was no not listed as a murder murder- I 1935 for The Telegram |
