The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-22

THE political cross-winds that have
swept across the State of Wisconsin
during the past ten years have sue
ceeded in so thoroughly breaking down
fences, effacing old landmarks and
precipitating such state OF general
confusion that, in order to bring some
system out of the prevailing chaos, the
majority of the members of the pres
ent Legislature have organized the
Wisconsin Republican League. The
very much disturbed condition OF the
1,o1itica1relations in the State natur-
ally tends to the disintegration OF
party solidity and presents a menace
to the State by offering a favorable
opportunity to fa1lacy, factionalism
and fanaticism. The purpose of the
new organization. is to reduce this
danger to a minimum by organizing
the more or less discovered fragments
of the Republican party into united
whole and keeping them so.
The League presents no platform of
factiona1 principles or policies. 1t
stands for the best interests of the
party, the welfare of the people, wise
legislation and the protection Of the
rights of all classes. It is not seeking
to make a fight on an individual, nor
for single campaign. The purposes
of the organization are well brought
out in the statement published in the
Milwaukee Sentinel Sunday and which
we reprint below: .
To the Republicans of Wisconsin:
The undersigned, Republican mem
convinced that the Republican party
of Wisconsin is upon the verge of a
crisis which can only be averted by
organized effort on the part of all Re-
publicans who consider party welfare
above personal ambition.
AS representatives of the people, we
view with alarm the persistent effort
to strengthen the Executive at the ex-
pense of the Legislative department of
the State.
The constitution says: 1.-The Legis-
1ative power shall be vested in Senate
and Assembly" The perpetuity of
our institutions depends upon the indie
pendence and integrity of each of the
coordinate branches of our govern
ment Neither is responsible to the
other, but each is responsible TO the
people. Neither should submit to die
tation from the other. Any attempt
to subordinate the Legislative depart
ment to the control of the Executive is
revolutionary and deserves prompt
and emphatic rebuke.
The public interest demands that
among the several departments of gov
eminent there be cordial and courteous
cooperation.
These propositions are so fundamen-
tai that are more vital than party sue
cess itself.
Many unwarrantab1e interferences
with the exclusive powers of the Leg
islature and attempts to coerce acqui-
essence in unreasonable acts and un-
wise experiments at the last session
were contrary to the welfare of the
peOple of Wisconsin and created bitter
fractional differences in the Republican
party.
The party must not permit itself to
be divided, and possibly destroyed, by
factiona1 disputes. It's purposes are
too high, it's work too important, to be
dominated for personal ends.
For these reasons we present to you
the necessity of a wholesome organi-
zation which shall truly represent the
whole party and safeguard its princi-
pies. We have not in contemplation
an organization for single campaign,
but one that shall be permanent and
as comprehensive as the party it repre-
sents.
Ia furtherence of such an organiza-
ton, rooms have been leased on the
eleventh floor of the Herman building,
in Milwaukee, where all Republicans
will be welcome and where opportunity
will be afforded 70 enroll in the Wis
consin Republican League.