The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-11-01
TELLS OF RAILWAY STRUGGLE
Gives Governor Davidson, Assembly
man Curtiss, I T. Bishop and
Congressman Cooper Hearty
Endorsement for Office

when he spoke to a crowd of six HIM
dred people at the Rhode opera house.
The address could not have been
considered political speech in the
present campaign, as the distin.
guished senator gave up but ten min
utes Of his time to the state campaign
and spent the remainder of his speech
of nearly three hours in speaking on
representative government I'D of his
work in the Senate. It was the same
old LaFollette, hurting defiance at
the men who had dared oppose him,
whether they were at Madison or
Washington, and lauding to the skies
the men who had aided him in bring
ing the reforms which he advocated
before the public.
With all of the talk of harmony in
the party, Mr.. LaFol1ette's address
came like sweet bells tangled and out
of tune. The address was masterfu1
presentation of the side of Governor
LaFollette, but it had nothing to say
of united party and it was evident
that the senator still held whip to
lash the men who opposed him, be
they Republicans or Democrats.
His reference to the state campaign
in Wisconsin came at the close of his
long discussion Of railway legislation
and his amendments proposed in the
senate. The senator gave Governor
Davidson comparative endorsements,
finding in the Republican candidate
mar much more worthy to have the
votes of the people than the Demo
cratic candidate. The senator spoke
for five minutes of the primary cam
paign. declaring that he had nothing
to take back. At the opening of the
campaign he said that he favored the
nomination of /. L. Lenroot for gov
ernor because he believed that he was
the best man. He declared that he
had not changed his mind since he
people had named Davidson, and that
he found IN Davidson a man who was
infinitely better suited to serve the
people as governor than Awkward. In
speaking of the primary campaign,
some of the old rancor appeared in
the senator, and he told the story of
his own political career, declaring
that he had been defeated in his first
attempt to gain the Republican nom
ination by ballots purchased in the
room of Republican United States
Senator.
Governor Davidson, said Mr.. La
| Toilette, sis honest, kindly and devoted
to the cause. He will do all in his
| power to advance the reform 1egisla-
/ ton in Wisconsin and will not know
ing1y permit any amendment of the
laws for which we have been fight
| ing: A1yward is corporation man
and on record as being opposed to
the reforms for which the people have
been fighting for 10, these many
years.
Mr.. LaFollette at this juncture
urged that partisanship be put aside
and that Democrats and Republicans
unite to elect the men who would
carry on the work that had been
started in Wisconsin. He paid high
tribute to Walker M. Curtiss, the Re-
publican candidate for mem Der of
the assembly, declaring that he was
one of the members of the legislature
that could always be counted on as
being on the right side of any ques-
ton. He spoke for Isaac T. Bishop
Idec1aring that man who had been
nominated against Otis w. Johnson,
who, he declared, had opposed all re-
form legislation, was worthy of the
votes of the people Of his district.
In closing his address he paid
tribute to H: A. Cooper. "That man
is right" is the y ay the senator put
his stamp of approval on Cooper. He
spoke of the work that Mr.. Cooper
had done in Congress and declared
that the fact that Cooper had stood
with the men who favored refor n had
made him target for social ostracism.
The senator came to Kenosha from
Waterford, where he had spoken dur
ing the afternoon and he was suffer
ing from bad attack of horseness.
He was escorted to the hall by Chair
man Reinardy of the county COM
mittee and C. G. Cuttings of Racine.
He was introduced by District Attor-
ney Robert Verne Baker, and without
prefacing his remarks he started on
his speech against the railways and
the corporations.
This speech was virile arraign-
ment of the corporations and the
senate. The speaker read his famous
roll of senators, who had voted against
his amendments and gave a good
presentation of the railway question
from an economic standpoint.
He was frequently interrupted with
prolonged applause and twas evident
that his work 10 the senate had in no
way lessened his popularity in Keno
sha.
The Rev. Mr.. Adams, formerly