The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-03-30
FIGHT WARMING Up.
Candidates for County Judge
Planning a WhirIwind Cam.
paign Of the County.
o'D0NNELL IS A SURPRISE
Is Now Running on the Republican
Ticket, but Always Considered a
Democrat in the Past.-Fight
for Superintendent.

The election will take place next
Tuesday, and while considerable
interest is being taken IN the election
of city candidates, there seems to be
considerable apathy inuregard to the
election of county Judge.
This is the most important side of
the coming election, and during the
next few days the candidates for the
office, Judge Slosson and M. G. O'Don-
nell, are planning to make a whir1-
wind campaigns, in which every part
of the county will be visited. Up to
the present time neither the present
incumbent of the office nor O'Donne1l
have made any great effort to secure
the votes of the people and it is ex-
pected that the closing week of the
campaign will be pretty hot one.
The Office of county judge is a most
important office on account of the
fact that the judge has the1work of
settling all the estates Of deceased
persons. For this reason the man
elected to the Office should be a man
of mature years, of strict integrity,
and a man in whom general conf
dence can be imposed. Judge S1os-
son, the present judge, has held the
office for nearly two terms, and in that
time he has conducted the business of
the office in way to show that he is d
safe man. In this time large estates
have been handled by him and he can
refer with pride to the manner in
which these estates have been set
tied. 1t is a noteworthy fact that
When the decisions of the court have
been taken to higher courts they have
been sustained.
Mr.. O'Donne1l, the other candidate
for the Office, comes before the people
not as the supporter of a non-partisan
judiciary, but as a Republican. Ke-
nosha county is supposed to be Re-
publican county, and yet the appear
ance of Mr.. O'Donne11 on the ticket as
Republican candidate has caused no
end Of discussion on account of the
fact that in the past Mr.. O'Donnell
has always been known as a Demo
crat. He has been elected to office on
the Democratic ticket and he has been
high in Democratic councils.
The people of the city and county
must choose between these two men,
and they should weigh carefully the
great interests at stake before cast
ing ballot. Judge S1osson has been
tried and found safe, and it is hardly
possible that the people will be will
ing to put him out of Office and place
IN his stead an untried man.
The County Superintendency.
There is another thing in the coming
election which will be of great inter
est to the people of the county and
that is the election of county super
intendent. There are four candidates
in the field Frank Swenson of Wilmot,
Conrad Shearer of Somers, Ralph
Karnes of Bristol, and John C. Ker-
win of Salem. All of the men are
making hard fight for the office but
it is generally considered that the
fight is narrowed down to Karnes and
Shearer. Mr.. Karnes is the present
official. Mr.. Shearer has just com
pleted his course at the Milwaukee
Normal and he is eminent1y qualified
for the Office of county superinten-
dent. He has been a teacher in the
county for number of years and is a
young man of undisputed ability as a
manager. His work in the past has
shown that he will make a splendid
man for the Office of county superin-
tendent and the people of the county
can do no better than to vote for him.