The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1906-08-16
Other Followers Ex-senator La
Toilette Refuse to Have Die
tation From Local Ring
WARD BL0SS a BELICERENT
Refused to Receive Dictation as to
Whom He Should Support for
State Senator and was Out
for Otis T.. Trenary

There are indications that the La
Toilette ring which is making an
effort to become dictators to officials
of Kenosha county has met with an
other setback which promises to allie
nate from the ringsters large number
of even the most faithful of the faith
full and incidentally to nominate Otis
E. Trenary as senatorial candidate.
This time the break is between the
ring and Ward Bloss, who has been
considered one of the most loyal and
faithful of the followers of Senator
La Toilette in the county. Boss was
the original La Toilette man in the
county and he has remained a strict
reader of the book for several years.
A short time ago Bloss was called to
the carpet by the poobah of the ring
on account of the fact that he had
been SO bold as to circulate petition
for the nomination of OtisL. Trenary
for senator. Bloss failed to see the
enormity Of his crime and insisted
that Trenafy was a good administra-
ton man and that he saw no reason
why he should not enter the fight.
Bloss was quickly advised that the
ring had selected Isaac g.. Bishop as
the senatorial candidate, and he inn
mediately retorted that he would not
have Bishop showed down his throat,
BJloss vas admonished that there was
probably no other mar ia the town of
Salem who would have been so anwise
as to have circulated lthe petition of
Trenary, and he came back by dis
playing the petition which was signed
by nearly every one Of the real lead
ers of the administration party in
Salem.
Now Bloss is mad. He has had his
first test of dictation and it looks like
war to the knife. Mr.. Bloss was in
Kenosha Monday afternoon and when
seen he admitted the facts in regard
to the action of the ring, and further,
he declared that the poobah of the
ring had been forced to take the pa
p of the ring candidate to the Jep-
son saloon in Salem in order to get
someone to circulate them.
It seems that some time ago Mr..
Bloss as pired to state Office in the
way of field agent for one of the state
institutions and he was riled on ac-
count of the fact that the leader of
the ring in the county. declared that
he had letter from Bob IN which
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have the Office. Bloss had also had
some communication with the senator
and he declared that he was willing to
wager goodly sum that the ringster
could not produce his alleged letter.
The letter has notsss.as yet been pro-
duced.
The effort to dictate to one who has
been SO faithful as Bloss has started
the people to thinking, and coupled
with the attempt to keep Taylor out
of the race for district attorney, the
people are gettingsa pretty good line
on the methods of the ring. It looks
now as if there is powerful senti-
ment growing to down the ring. The
farmers out in the.acounty have de-
clared themselves in open defiance,
and It is safe to say that they will not
allow body Of peanut politicians,
who work for the party only for the
Offices they receive, todictate to them
who they shallahave for candidates
and what policy they shall follow. 1t
is generally thought that the ring has
about run its course and 1t will take
more than a visit from. Senator Ia
Toilette to save it from rout at the
primaries.
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