The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-21
Former Baseball Player Defeats
John Langan fer Nomination
for Assessor
NJ. o. LIGHT LEADER D0WNED
c. F. Stemm Defeated for Renomina.
ton for Alderman n the Sixth
Hig1ey, Simons and We1lman
Win Republican Contests

new addition to the Board of Asses.
sors of the city Of Kenosks this year
as he defeated John Langan in the
primaries on Tuesday and was re-
turned as the Demo cratic candidate
for the Office with ma jority of close
to hundred votes.
The victory of Kleist was SUR
prise, as it.waslgeneral1y believed that
the Democratic organization was
backing the candidacy Of Langan.
Kleist gained a.great lead in the three
north wards, and came down to the
river with anna jority Of 245 over his
opponent. He ggained half a hum
dred more IN the Fifth ward and then
| it was seen that Langan was hope
less1y beaten. Langan could muster
but 1913 ma jority in theafonr wards he
carried, and this left Kleist the win
ner by a bigimargin. As the Repub-
1icans named no candidate, nonlina-
ton on the Democratic tickets equiv
alent to an election.
There were other upsetsin the prin-
airy which came when some of the old
| time favorites went down with dull
sickening thud Over ia the Sixth
ward the municipal lighting leader,
c. F. Stemm, was candidate for re-
nomination for alderman and the best
he could get in the three cornered
race was third money. Maurice
Schendt was nominated with ifty-four
votes, while William Smith was sec
ond with forty-one votes and Stemm.
was third with nineteen votes, Alder
man O'Brien had heavy ma jority
over. Sullivan in the First ward, de-.
feating Sullivan by a vote of 138 to 90.
Charles Dietrich in this ward de-
feated A. J. Burg one of the. old
wheel horses Of the. Democracy for
the. Office of county supervisor by,
nearly the. same margin. zsasg4
Ia the Third ward Allied =. Simons
had a walkaway ia his race with Ben
M. DeDienlar and he, received nearly
four votes to one. for his opponent.
II fhe Fourth z ta e ward WARD George Higley
was given the nonination. for alder
man over present Alderman julius
sPabst by vote of f59- IS. In the
same ward CORTLAND a.. Dewey, one
of the best known members of the
County Board, was defeated for re-
nomination by Alvin Fl. Blood, who
at present holds the office OF county
surveyor. The Fifth wal i was bait
tie ground for both Republicans and
Democrats and the ward cast the
largest vote III the city Alderman
Thommessen was renoninated by the
Democrats defeating Harry Seavers
by vote of 1916 to SO and in the same
ward William Wellman defeated
Frank Senne by large majority. In
the Eighth ward Frederick Mayer,
the present alderman, defeated Killian
Pfarr by IS votes.
The full list of candidates selected
by the voters of the different parties
is as follows:
Republican
Justice Of Peace-B. o. sturges.
FIRST WARD.
Schoo1sC Commissioners d. Barnes.
SECOND WAKD.
Alderman Henry II. Timme.
School Commissioner L. Wells.
County Supervisor H. Charles.
THIRD WARD.
A1derman-A Alfred H. Simons.
| School Commissioner-W w. j. Frost.
County Supervisory. F. Jordan.
FOURTH WARD.
A1derman-George w, Hig1ey.
School Commissioner. Cavanagh
County Supervisor Blood.
FIFTH WARD.
Alderman VIM. F. We11rnan.
School Com. -Wn1. r. Grewenow.
County Supervisor-C G. The1een.
SIXTH WARD.
A1derman-Peter Burmeister, Jr.
School COMA. w. Frantz.
County Supervisor A. Pofah1.
SEVENTH WARD.
VIM. c.. Schmitz.
County Supervisor VIM. F. Jornt.
EIGHTH WARD.
A1derman-August C. Otto.
School Com. Paul We1lman.
County Supervisor-M r. zens.
Democratic
Assessor Matthias p. K1eist.
Justice Of the Peace-Ed. Donahue
FIRST WARD.
Alderman-Jas. H. O'Brien.
School CON- Matthias Mungen.
County Supervisor-C. B. Dietrich
SECOND WARD.
.Alderman- Elmer L. Mar1ette.
THIRD WARD.
fA1derman-Jos. III. Tu11y.
School Com. B. j. McC1oskey.
County Supervisor w. johnson.
FOURTH WARD.
Alderman James Fi1ben.
School Com. Geo. H. Wi11mes.
County Supervisor Hans Harbert.
FIFTH WARD.
A1dermen-Joh A. Thommessen.
School Com. ID ohm E. Williams.
County Supervisor-John Zewen.