The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-12-27
Many Candidates Looming up for
Office Of County Clerk to
Succeed w. c. Crosby
zENS FIRST TO ENTER RACE
Secretary of the County Committee
Formally Announces Himself as a !.
Candidate for the Office-Many
Others in Line for the Job

The political pot in Kenosha is boil
ing. Usually there is little doing in
politics along about Christmas time
but the announcement that w. c..
Crosby will retire from the office of
county clerk with the close of the
year has started something and a
dozen lightning rods are being set up
4 IN different parts of the county with
the hope that the lightning will
strike and that the men who are
anxiously holding the rods will land
in the Office of county clerk.
The County Board will elect new
clerk to succeed Mr.. Crosby and the
election will be the main business of
the January session Of the Board
which will open on January 9th. BY
that time it is expected that score of
candidates will be in the field and
already friends of prospective candi-
dates are seeking out the members of
the Board and urging the claims of
the different men.
Michael r. Zens is the first man to
formally enter the field for the posi-
ton held by Mr.. Crosby for so many
Z years. Mr.. Zens is a Republican and
during the last campaign he served
as secretary of the Republican county
committee. 1t is thought that he will
have the support of the committee 10
his candidacy for the office.
Although the announcement of the
retirement of Mr.. Crosby came as a
surprise to even the politicians, al
ready many candidates are being
mentioned. Charles Likes who was
a candidate for the nomination at the
last primary election, has been men.
toned for the Office, but he has ma de
no formal announcement of his can;
didacy. j. C. Dowse Of Pleasant
Prairie is also mentioned, as is also
Albert Fransway of kenosha. All o1
these men are Republicans. The Dem.
ocrats have not as yet had forma
candidate in the field, but William
j Welton Of Brighton is being strongly
!, urged by several of the Democratic
mem bers of the County Board. Mr.
/ Welton was candidate for the office
Of Clerk of the Circuit Court at the
last general election. Leon Gilberr
of Kenosha has also been mentioned
among the Democrats.
The successful candidate will be
elected for the full two years term
and his salary will be thousand dol
lars year. The fees in the office will
increase this to about $1,000.
The County Board which will have
the matter in hand, is equally divided
from political standpoint, but it is
thought that the harmony which pre-
vailed a t the last session of the board
will extend even to the election of Z
clerk, and it is believed that the best
man will be selected regardless oil
politics.
Clerk Crosby is to give up his work
at the court house on next Monday
evening, and pending the sitting Of
the County Board his deputies Miss
Belle Gaffney and Frank Waldo will
be in charge of the office. There will
be no shut down in the work of the
office as the deputies are entirely cog,
infant of the work. Some Of the IN
terested parties have suggested thai
it would be only right to elect Miss
Gafney to the office. She has beer
deputy clerk for several years and is
well acquainted with the duties of the
Office. There seems to be no proceed.
ent for the election of woman to the
Office, but there is no doubt but that
Miss Gaffney is as well qualified fol
the duties of the Office as any male
elector to be found in the county.