The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-11-01
W. R. Gaylord, Social Democratic
Candidate for Governor Ad-
dresses Large Crowd
FLAWS OLD PARTY LEADERS
Handles Republicans and Democrats in
Impartial Manner and Declares
Social Democracy is the
Iyope of the Nation
lFronl THURSDAYS Daily


the Social Democratic candidate for
governor, opened the campaign ia
Kenosha Wednesday. Candidate Gay
lord is pleasing speaker and the
crowd which heard him was one that
seemed to enthuse with his words
and he received generous applause
during the evening. Mr.. Gaylord
spoke especially of his work in Wis
consin and declared that he saw a ray
of hope for Social Democracy ia the
state. He said that this was the first
year that the people Of Wisconsin
had been willing to listen to Social
Democratic speeches and that while
he did not expect to be elected that
the Social Democrats would poll vote
in the state that would open the eyes
+ of the leaders Of the old parties.
/ In his address of two hours he
launched into the old parties with
vigor. He was impartial in his as
sault. He roasted President Roose-
welt, Joe Cannon and the Republicans,
and grilled William Jennings Bryan
/ and the Democrats. He declared that
there was no choice between the two
| parties and that both had formed the
basis of the Socialist movement. He
/ found in the Social Democratic party
the solution Of these questions. He
referred with pride to the growth of
Socialism in the different countries of
| Europe and said that already this
great movement was coming to have
force in this country and that the time
of its supremacy was only a short
way off.
/ Ia the early part Of his speech he
talked about ''dividin' mp and de-
clared that the man who believed that
dividing up was one Of the doctrines
of Socialism had been misled. He
said that Social Democrats were
practical men and that they recog-
nized that dividing up the material
wealth of the nations would be an i'm
possibility.
In speaking of President Roosevelt
| he said:
Il ssThe government of which Theo-
dore Roosevelt is the head is rot the
real government of these United
States. The real government is the
one which prescribes the food you
shall eat, the clothes you shall wear,
the time you shall go to work and the
time you shall quit, what you will get
for that work and whether you shall
work or not. The real government is
the one which buys and sells your
Legislators like sheep on the western
plains"
He quoted William Jennings Bryan
as the author of an essay recently
published in a leading magazine, en-
titled, "Individualism VS.. Socialism -
Mr.. Bryan is entirely consistent, he
said, since hesis Jeffersonian Demo
crat, and Jefferson put for the chief
cornerstone of the Democracy which
he established the principles: "The
less government the better" The
logic of this would of course be, 'sthe
least government is best and no gov
ernment at all is best Of all. = But
that is just exactly anarchism, which
is simply the philosophy of individual
hsrn intelligent1y stated Continuing
he said IN part:
Uncle oe' Cannon is reported in
recent interview to have said that
civilization depends upon the individ-
ua1 hustler Aud Uncle Joe wants to
make laws based upon that principle
as he understands it.
"Now there is no individual hustler
in modern industry or commerce.
The Panama canal IS not being built
by Individual hustlers, but by an or
ganized army Of workers, using mod
ern machinery.
"The workers of the world can
never be anarchists; for they must
enlist in industrial armies, take their
places at the appointed time. They
cannot practice the principles Of
anarchism, which are, do as you
please, and mind your own business
But there is class in society today
which is in position to practice
these doctrines, and does so. An IL
I1ustration OF this class is found in the
contempt with which Mr.. H. H.
was called upon to answer a few
questions recently. Ia effect he told
the court to mind his own business,
that he, Mr.. Rogers, would do as he
pleased.
Judge Grosscup, of Chicago, says,
In Il article in the American Maya
zine of last December, that fully nine
tenths of the business transactions of
this country are handled by corpora
tons He then goes on to say that
the corporations do business in a do
main outside of the law which sim
Eply means that there is no law ade-
quate to control them. President
Roosevelt said in his message to con-
gress last winter, when he was asking
for rate legislation, that there is no
national law, and certainly no state
law, which is adequate for the regu-
lation Of the railway corporations Of
this country And that simply means
| that Mr.. Roosevelt is not president Of
1.-The United States, but only Of so much