text:  Frank Zeidler. In fact, his office was about a block or so from where the convention's being held. And the fact of the matter is the Milwaukee socialists were very successful. This city was often seen as the best governed city in the country, awarded as such, and yet they never, they didn't back away from their socialism. And explain why they were called sewer socialists. It was used as a pejorative, but in fact it wasn't.