The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-12-08
OUARLES Is LEADING.
WHY HIS FRIENDS BELIEVE HE
WILL BE NOMINATED.
BASIS OF THEIR CONFIDENCE
Far Ahead now of Any of His Competitors.
Second Choice of so MANY Members
That His Election to the Senate
Seems Certain

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deal of work has been done by the
various candidates for United States
senator and their friends. Letters
have passed between members of the
legislature and the various candidates,
some of the members have been seen
personally and each candidate probably
has pretty clear idea of the situation
as it stands today, and of the relative
strength of each of his competitors.
With so strong field of candidates
to select from, there will of course be
differences of opinion as to who best
meets all these desirable conditions.
Each of the five candidates will have
strong supporters. Thus far the can
vass has developed little acrimony
Each of the candidates is on the most
friendly terms with all the others and
while the contest will be warm one,
there seems to be no reason why its
outcome should cause any unnecessary
or party disaffectioR.
Although little has been said of Mr.
Quarles' candidacy in the papers, more
Of course is known of it here than of the
other candidates.. His campaign has
been a quiet one. No claims have been
made; no antagOnisms aroused. The
other candidates have conceded that
Mr.. Quarles was in the lead. This has
become so evident that efforts, it is
said, have developed during the past
week or two to weaken his support,
and Mr.. Quarles' Milwaukee friends
are beginning to resent some of the
methods which are being used to &C
complish this end. They say that re-
ports have come to them of a seeming
effort to make it appear that the sup
port of Mr.. Quarles is not entirely
sincere and not entirely in earnest.
Under these circumstances they feel
that in justice to Mr.. Quarles the facts
should be stated. They say:
That the number of votes now certain
for Mr. Quarles is far in excess of that
for any one of the other candidates;
that many of the votes which they have
put in the doubtful column are almost
as certain to be cast for him; and that
Mr.. Quarles is the second choice of
many of the members who will cast
their votes at the star5 for other candi
dates.
That Mr.. Quarles is earnestly and
enthusiastically supported by the Mil
waukee members; that there is no
question of the loyalty of the local rep
resentatives in the legislature who
have repeatedly and voluntarily as
sured Mr.. Quaries that they are for him
first, last and all the time, that they
believe Milwaukee is entitled to the
Senatorship, that Mr.. Quarles is a
candidate whom they are not only
willing to support, but are glad of an
opportunity to support; they consider
Mr. Quarles most likely of all the can
didates to be the nominee: and that
these facts will undoubtedly attract to
his support many of those members
who, still undecided, are only waiting
to find out which of the candidates
public sentiment in the State is con-
centrating on, and the election of whom
will most strengthen the party in the
State.
That Mr.. Quarles will have the prac-
tically solid support of the members
elect from the First Congressional dis
trict: that he has supporters in the
members elect from all parts of the
State.
That no other candidate has such
general and widely scattered support,
showing that Mr.. Quarles is not only
the leading candidate in the contest
today, but that his candidacy most
nearly represents the sentiment of Re-
publicans throughout the State.
Under these circumstances Mr..
Quarles' Milwaukee friends natural /
resent the effort to misrepresent what
they say is the exact situation. They
say that Mr.. Quarles is now so far in
the lead that they have every reason to
expect his nomination and they ex-
press great confidence that he will be
the nominee. And they give their
reasons for this confidence:
Putting in the doubtful column sew
eral votes which they have reason to
believe to be for him, and counting
only those votes which they know will
certainly be cast for him, Mr.. Quarles,
they say, is evidently the first choice of
by far the largest number of Repdb
lican members of the legislature. They
believe he is the second choice of more
than enough others to make his NOM
ination as certain as anything can be
so far in advance of the meeting of the
legislature and the actual count Of
votes in the Republican caucus. Mil
waukee Sentinel.