The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-19
Old Party Leaders in Kenosha County
Refuse to Accept la Toilette
as a Candidate.
sPooNER is THEIR CHOICE.
Kenosha County May Lose Many Republt-
can Votes If the Leader of New Ring
is Nominated for Governor.

Republican party for Governor of Wis
consin. The opposition to Mr.. La
Toilette is not timid, but it comes
from all parts of the county as a
mighty uproar against the action of the
party. It does not amount to half
hearted support, but on the other
hand, aud especially is this true in the
country districts, it means open oppo-
sition to the dictates of the party if
they shall choose La Toilette as their
standard bearer. When the Mi1wau-
kee convention overrides the wishes of
the better element of the party and
names that prince of ringsters, La
Toilette, it's action will bring the
handwriting on the wall as far as Re
publican success in Kenosha county is
concerned during the coming cam
paign. Tuesday afternoon several of
the party leaders from the outlying
towns OF The county were in the city
making some canvass of the feeling in
regard to La Toilette and they ex-
pressed themselves as utterly opposed
| to the Madison man under any and all
conditions. One of the men, and one
who has served the Republican party
in many a hard fought campaign, not
as an Office holder or as an office seeker,
but as one Of the boys in the ranks,
who has always taken of his coat and
put his hand down into his pocket and
worked for the success of the party.
He classified La Toilette in a class by
himself and said that he had done
|
the State than a1l,the hosts of Democ-
racy.ETl auu
This is the general feeling through
out the county. Men who supported
La Toilette in two hard fought cam
paigns for the nomination are as bit
ter in their opposition as those who
have always stood in opposition to the
Madison man. Ring politics, they
claim, have turned La Toilette into
demagogu he who is willing to risk any
ing to gain the objects of his ambi-
ton. The EN-. ssaries of the Madison
man have been in the county, but they
have met with rebuff and the farmers
have expressed their verdict as against
La Toilette at any and all times.
The idol has fallen and from hence
forth Kenosha county can be counted
on as being foremost 4 the ranks
when the fight against La Toilette is
to be made. There is no doubt but
that the Kenosha county convention
will declare in words not to be doubted
their opposition to the man who is at
tempting to sweep the State by the in
fation Of stories in regard to the sup
port which he is receiving. La Fol
1ette has today no votes that he did not
have when the convention met two
years ago. and yet the victory of SEQ
field was an easy one. With the re-
mainder Of the First district the city
and county of Kenosha stood to work
and vote for the nomination of Sena-
tor Whitehead, of GAINESVILLE, and the
people of the county view with regret
the fact that the Senator has with
drawn from the fight. But this docs
not mean that the county will stand
idly by and see the dele Tations of the
district plac / in the La Toilette col
umn, but on the other hand they will
be found active in the opposition, will
ing to support any man whose Repub-
licanism is unsullied by the marks Of
the political fling.
AS to the candidate for Governor
who will be presented by Kenosha
county, the. county stands pledged to
none save Whitehead. Stebbins
would probably be an acceptable can
didate, but the county would much
rather see that grand old man of Wis
consin politics, Senator John c.
Spooner, placed in nomination.
The feeling for Spooner and Steb-
bins is enthusiastic, but the feeling
against the man from Madison IS one
of indignation and regret.
Twice, the leaders of the party claim,
La Toilette has been turned down
by the Republicans of the state, and
for him to attempt to foist himself on
the party as its candidate, through the
Vaccinations of the most stI1pcndors
ring that has ever been ptrpetratc in
Wisconsin politics, is more tnan they
will stand for.
The nom nation of La Toilette mems
the loss Of hundreds of Republican
votes in the first dis let. 1t mems a
loss to District and National politics
at time when it IS impossible for
such loss to be sustain II. 1t me- rs
the endannerillg OF great national
issues, and the a ienatlon of many of
the best known Leaders of Republican
ism in Southern Wisconsin.
IF Kenosha is the first to take this
firm stand against the ring, with
La Toilette at it's head, she is proud of
her position, and whethe or not her
efforts may result in the defeat of the
Madison man, her name will go down
in the history of the party and the
state, as one county which stood out
against the tyranny of ring to nom
mate man to whom the whole better
element of the party is opposed.