The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-10-27
Leader of La Toilette Orators
Speaks to a Small Crowd at
the Rhode Friday Night.
DEFENDS GOVERNORS STAND
Wet Weather Cuts the Crowd to a Min
imum but Speaker is Given
Respectful Hearing,

Friday night. After such rapid firing
guns as Governor La Toilette and M.
G. Jeffris the speech of Mr.. Kelly was
little tame but he was given re-
spectfu1 hearing.
The crowd was small and unre-
sponsive and the speaker got little
encourage from the empty seats
| in front of him.
The rain had noteworthy effect on
the crowd in the Opera House and
less than three hundred people were
in attendance when the speaker came
on the stage. For the first time dur
ing the campaign the stage and boxes
were decorated and pictures of the
Governor were in great profusion
about the walls. On the speakers
platform were Geo. V. Redeker, Nor
man L. Baker, o. L. Trenary, DR.. H.
A. Robinson, r. V. Baker, c. A.
Dewey and M. A. Baker.
Robert V. Baker, candidate for
District Attorney introduced the
speaker, stating that he had been
speaking in campaigns for the past
sixteen years and that he had come to
Kenosha as free American.
Mr.. Kelly was greeted with applause
when he began speaking.
He congratulated the crowd on the
nerve it had shown in Drawing the
weather to attend political meeting.
He stated that there was little in
terest being shown in the National
Campaign on account of the fact that
the people seemed to be satisfied
with Republican rule and didn't care
to even argue about change.
Mr.. Kelly spoke of the long record
of good work shown by the Republi-
can administrations and showed the
conditions which had followed the
election of Grover Cleveland during
the two terms. He declared that the
prosperity of the land was due to the
policies Of it's rulers as carried out by
the political parties in power.
The Protective Tariff was touched
on, and he showed what the policy
of Protection had done for American
industries. Mr.. Kelly spoke of Will
lam Jennings Bryan as the real lead
er of the Democratic party and char
acterized him as a Free Trader. He
spoke of the hypocritica1 position that
he candidates of Democracy had TAX
Ell on the tariff question and the
money question.
The speaker spoke on the bug-a-boo
of imperialism and declared that
long ago the question of the destiny
of the Philippines was settled.
Mr.. Kelly spoke on the vigorous
policies of President Roosevelt and
declared that the people were for
tunate to have man who would act
and act promptly and always be ready
to back up his action. He spoke of
the fact that the government under
the Democrats had never been ready
to do anything on account of lack of
constitutional rights. ''My God"
exclaimed the speaker Roosevelt
would make constitution in twenty
four hours to meet any emergency"
The speaker eu1ogized President
Roosevelt and showed that the Dem
ocratic opposition to him was based
simply on trumped up charges. He
then spoke on the trusts, their history
and their connection with the tariff
question. He spoke of the Railway
corporations, the Standard Oil Com
pany and showed that these great
trusts in no way owed their existence
to the protection afforded by the tariff
schedules. He spoke of the inefect-
ua1 efforts made by Democracy to pass
Antitrust legislation and spoke of
the firm Antitrust action of Roose-
welt and his associates in the Repub-
1ican party.
The discussion of the Trust ques-
ton brought Mr.. Kelly to State issues
and he opened up with comparing La
Toilette and Roosevelt. He declared
that the men who are opposed to the
| Governor we're no longer Republi-
cans. He declared that these people
had pefect right to their opinions
but declared that they should form a
new party. He discussed the history
of Governor La Toilette in the state
speaking of the agitation for taxation
before the convention of 1898. He
spoke of the platform of the party for
that year and those succeeding and
the failure of the men elected to carry
out the party pledges. He declared
that the record of the party in this re-
gard was enough to make any honest
man hang his head in shame. He
pleaded with the people to give the
Governor and his associates one more
chance. "We'11 make these pledges
good or die in the attempt" declared
the speaker.
Mr.. Kelly declared that the issue
was not primary election or freight
rates but the question of the betrayal
of the people by not carrying out of
pledges.
"Who has been in control of the
legislature all these years?" declared
the speaker and man III the front
row shouted back, sLa Fo11ette''
The speaker then touched on major
! ity rule and declared that if the gov