Last week Milwaukee went to the polls, turned out its Socialist city attorney and five of its Socialist city councilmen, turned down eight out of twelve other Socialist candidates for the council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John...
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