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eform. 74 The first outing was not successful, only garnering five percent of the
vote, most of which was probably from recent German immigrants. 75 Their
fight had just started.
Berger crafted a grassroots organization that slowly moved from the
heavy German northwest side of the city, to the middle class and Polish
immigrants. 76 In Seidel’s 1938 unpublished autobiography he explained their
actions: “We aimed to maintain a local branch in every ward. Among the
earliest, we had enough signatures to apply for a 20 th Ward Charter. I
transferred my membership from Branch 1 to Branch 20.” 77 They organized
many different ways to spread their ideas, including newspapers, fliers in
several different languages, concerts, lectures and a pamphlet brigade. 78 They
fashioned themselves “realistic socialists” and considered their platform “the
American expression of the international movement of modern wage-workers
for better food, better houses, sufficient sleep, more leisure, more education,
and more culture.” 79
By 1910, Milwaukee’s population had grown to over 373,000 people, 80
and the roll of registered Socialists had reached 17,000 members. 81 The SDP
had started to be referred to as ‘Sewer’ Socialism, for their number one
74 Judd, 22.
75
Buenker, “Cream City Electoral Politics,” 27.
76
Buenker, “Cream City Electoral Politics,” 27-28.
77
Emil Seidel, Autobiography Part I, Part II, and Part III (unpublished manuscript, 1938) , Emil Seidel
Papers, 1915-1944, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 79.
77
Buenker, “Cream City Electoral Politics,” 28.
79
Buenker, “Cream City Electoral Politics,” 28.
80
McCarthy, 4.
81
Ranney, “The Political Campaign of Mayor David S. Rose,” 412.
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