The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-10-06
CLUB HAS FIFTY MEMBERS,
Kenosha Republican Club is Formed
With Membership of Fifty of
the Leading Men in the Party.

1SSuOS u luS SldlG camp
This was the first officials action Of
the Kenosha Republican Club which
was organized at the club rooms in
the. Monaghan building on Market
street Tuesday night. Members of
| the new club held that Mr.. Curtis was
in direct opposition to the expressed
| will of the Republican party, and that
he was allied with a wing of the party
not recognized by the National Or
ganization, and in order tosdetermine
the truth or fa1sity Of this report the
club will send letter to Mr.. Curtis
asking him to state clearly two
things:
Whether or not he will stand
for election pledged by the resolutions
adopted by the Convention which
nominated him, and
Second Whether or not, if elected
to the Assembly, he will vote to re-
turn Joseph V. Quar1es to the United
States Senate.
An afirma tive answer to this second
question will result in Mr.. Curtis get
ting the united vote of his party, but
should he answer it in the negative it
is probable that the factiona1 fight in
| Kenosi1a county will become bitter
one.
| The meeting of the Republicans
Tuesday night was the most enthusi-
astic held in the city since the open
ing of the campaign. Fifty of the
leading members of the party braved
the stormy weather and went to the
hall to assist in the formation of the
club, and every one of them signed
the roll of membership.
The club is not pledged to either
faction of the party in it's articles of
organization and the declaration of
principles simply pledges the members
of the club to support the Republican
principles as enunciated in the plat
form of the party adopted at the Chi
| cago convention.
| The meeting was called to order by
| A. E. Buckmaster and James Cavan-
agh who had been the President Of
/ the old Republican club took the
chair as temporary Chairman. w. T.
Marlatt was Secretary of the meet
ing.
In taking the chair Mr. Cavanagh
made a speech which showed pretty
plainly the purpose of the meeting
and of the club. He said that in the
club membership he saw quite a
number of men of Kenosha who stuck
with the Republican party through
thick and thin for many years, never
wavering in their loyalty to the party
and its candidates-men who had been
willing to give of their means to ad-
vance the cause of Repub1icanism.
He said that the present campaign
was an unusual one in that the party
was confronting the old enemy Of
Democracy and added to this another
enemy from the interior of the party
had attacked it in the rear and had at
tempted to encompass its downfall.
cit is the purpose of this meeting
said the speaker f'to organize a Re-
publican club which will be willing to
stand by the party principles at all
times-A club which will be willing
to fight all opposition to the party
whether IN the ranks of the party or
outside of them
Mr.. Cavanagh then spoke of the
course that had been taken by the
Governor, of his efforts to secure the
control of the legislature and judiciary
in the state and to merge the entire
government of the state into one
man power. This he declared must
be fought to the finish by the mem
bers Of the party who stood for the
old time Republican principles. He
spoke of the way that the Governor
had appealed to Democrats to assist in
defeating regular Republican candi-
dates-of his interferencei in Congress
siona1 contests and of the abuse which
he had heaped upon the men who had
failed to vote for his pet hobbies. He
spoke of the action of the governor in
taking politics into the supreme
court and declared that the governor
now had two members of the supreme
court under his control. In conc1ud-
ing he stated that these greatqnes-
tons were the real questions of the
campaign in Wisconsin and that the
Republican voters would have to meet
and settle them like men.
The speech of the chairman aroused
great enthusiasm and hearty ap-
p1a use was accorded his every utter
ance.
The organization of the club was
then completed and a committee COM
posed of one man from each ward was
named to carry out the work Of the
club. The committee is composed of
John M. Keh1or, S. c. Newman,
George A. Yu1e, d. J. Harff, S. S..
Simmons, c. A. Tarbe11, E. G. Becker,
William Schnitz and William Seitz.
The ward members of the committee
were given the power to appoint as
sistant members of the committee to