The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-10-04
HARMON AT SALEM.
Opening of the Republican Campaign
in the County Shows Enthu-
siasm on All Sides.
MILwAUKEEAN SHOWS ISSUES
Mr.. Harmon Presents the Issues of the
Campaign in Fearless Manner
other Speakers Talk.

The campaign in the county was
opened under very suspicious circum-
stances at the Town hall in Salem last
evening and the greatest political
meeting ever held in the town was the
result. The meeting was under the
direction of the Prosperity Club of the
little village and FULLY five hundred of
the farmers residing in the neighbor-
hood turned out to make the opening
rally of the campaign great success.
The crowd gathered in the early part
of the evening and before the meeting
the Bristol drum corps headed large
procession, which paraded the streets
of the village Arriving at the hall
the meeting was opened byED. L. Bur
CESS, president of the Salem Prosper
ity Club, who made ringing speech
of good old fashioned Homespun Re-
publicanism and closed by introducing
Hon. A. E. Buckmaster, who made a
short address showing up the issues as
pertaining to the campaign in the state
and county and urging the Republic
ans of Salem to get into line and work
hard for the success of the party. He
closed his short address by introducing
the speaker of the evening, the Hon.
John J. Harmon, of Milwaukee. Mr..
Harmon was received with great ap-
p1ause and for two hours he presented
the principal issues of the campaign in
a fearless and mastery manner. He
sighted none of the issues and pune
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arguments by facts called from the
industries and life of the people of Ke-
uosha county. On account of the local
interest given the speech it carried
great weight with the voters and made
marked impression.
Many times during the evening the
speaker was stopped by the great en-
thusiasm manifested by the farmers
and the people of Salem. He touched
on Imperialism and showed forth in a
lucid manner the fa11acies of the Dem
ocratic party. He made terrible on
s1aught on the trusts and stated that
the Republican party was the real en-
envy of the trust. The money question
was touched as the main issue of the
campaign and the double faced action
of Democracy was unmasked and 10 to
was shown to be the real interest and
issue of the campaign.
The Republicans of the county are
not to be hoodwinked by the false issue
of Imperialism, as the remarks of the
cheered to the echo.
At the close of the speech the speaker
turned to local objects and showed the
prevailing Republican prosperity. Ke-
nosha county has indeed been prosper
Gus during the past four years. The
speaker showed the prosperity by Civ
ing statistics on the sale of farm
machinery. During this season in
Pleasant Prairie alone 40 corn harvest
ers have been sold, while four years
ago the farmers were not able to buy
such machinery. The speaker also
drew a lesson from the number of
country children, who are away from
home attending school. Every morn
ing forty country children come to
Kenosha and other cities on the train
to attend school and four years ago
this number was decreased to twelve.
The speaker also touched the indus
trial prosperity of Kenosha and showed
by actual figures that every industry
in the city had more than doubled it's
force during the four years and in
many cases the wages have been in
creased as much as fifty per cent. No
decrease is reported in any part of the
city and all manufacturers report that
the business of the present cannot be
compared with that of four years ago.
The address of Mr.. Harmon made
great impression upon his hearers.
One of the pleasant features Of the
evening was the music furnished by
Prof. Compton and Sam Newman in
the instrumental line and Mrs. H. E.
Tanner and ]. Keck Wheeler in the
vocal lire. The Kenosha musicians
covered themselves with glory.