The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-10-20

eAAS - ONSA AOA > lldCI11HC udQ any ma
chinery ever held by railway com
pany beaten to death.
Amidst the greatest applause Mr..
Jeffris showed that the primary cleo
ton law proposed by the governor was
lPopulistic and that this was the worst
word known in American politics.
He declared that the Office should
seek the man and that the party
should make the platform as we'll as
name the candidates.
He spoke of the conventions of the
past and the men they had brought
out. He paid feeling tribute tc
Lincoln and claimed that he was only
one of the products of the great party
convention system
He charged Governor La Toilette
with dishonesty in his actions in re-
gard to primary elections.
In discussing the railway rate prob
lem Mr.. Jefris spoke of local issues
and the demands of Kenosha. He
spoke of the great output of the Ke-
nosha factories and showed that the
governor would cripple these indus
tries by his Popu1istic theories. ''He, -
declared Mr.. Jeffris, 'swants to come
into Kenosha and tell Mr.. Simmons
how he shall run his factory, and the
Balm Wagon company how they shall
ship their goods"
How 1t Would Affect Kenosha,
Mr.. Jefris then showed how this
unfair freight rate would make it i'm
possible for Kenosha factories to sell
their products in many parts of the
state. He spoke of the policy of com
pairing rates with Iowa and showed
that kenosha had one tannery which
tanned more leather than all the tam
neries in the state of Iowa. He spoke
of the fact that large factories were
forced to leave Iowa on account of
the mileage system.
By the time Mr.. Jeffris had got
warmed up the house had filled up
and the ais1es were crowded with
enthusiastic Republicans. Then JEFF
frs grew dramatic again and he
minced the governor when he told
the famous story of the railway en-
gineer, so often told by the governor.
Jefris declared that the governors
story was pure fabrication and gave
good reasons for it. The way that
Jefris waded into the governor on
this point reused his auditors to
cheers and pandemonium broke loose
when the speaker finished his drama
tic expose of the governors sym
pathetic plea for votes.
Game Wardens Slaughtered.
Mr.. Jeffris paid his respects to the
game wardens and the oil inspectors
and when the crowd how1ed with
laughter at the word picture of de-
bauched state affairs the speaker
waived them back and declared that
the laugh was on the people who
paid the expenses. Governor La Fol
lette was n1erci1essly fayed in this
regard and Mr.. Jeffris declared that
the governor was earning his SIS, 900 a
year by stirring up class fights among
the laborers of the state. The speaker
showed the great change that had
come in the price of labor and it's pro-
duct in Kenosha, and showed that the
change had been every time in favor
of the 1aborer. He spoke of the gov
ernor as demagogue who had stirred
up father against son and 1aborer
against the man who employs.
He referred to the prophetic words
of Alexander Hamilton when he spoke
of ''The man who stirs up dis
quietude" as the greatest enemy of
government. Mr.. Jeffris declared
that Hamilton must have had La Fol-
1ette in mind.
"The Patient Poor"
Then Goods Patient Poor'' came
in for it's mead of consideration. The
story of the murder of Sheriff Harris
in ST. Croix county and the action of
the governor in refusing to appoint a
man who would turn over the receipts
to the widow and children in order to
allow LaF o11etteite the job. ''Don' t
take what a man says, take what he
does" was the c1incher that Mr.. Jeffris
brought out as the moral of the story.
He declared that when ''the patient
poor" interfered with the Govern
or's political ambition they were
thrust aside.
He spoke of the tax commission
which had been started by Governor
Scofe1d, and at the mention of the
name of the Republican candidate
for governor, the crowd cheered lust
lily.
Mr.. Jeffris showed the dup1icity of
the governor in discussing railway
taxation and referred to the message
of the governor in which he said that
"the railways were paying their
share of the taxes The later ac-
tons of the governor were touched
on and the speaker produced copies
of papers and kilograms which had
been sent to the railways by the gov
ernor asking for the appointment of
Attorney Chenowyth as the attorney
for the Burlington company in Wis
consin.