The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-12-26
Strenuous Efforts to Be Made to
Secure Delegates Favorable
to Him in Wisconsin
TO ORGANIZE ALL DISTRICTS
Friends of Taft Will Have State Organ.
ization and Make an Effort to
Get Delegates to National
Convention.

The friends of SecretaryIW. H. Taft
will make fight for the delegates
from Wisconsins~to the ERepublican
national convention. A statement to
that effect was made yesterday by
Emanuel L. Philip, of Milwaukee.
one OF the leaders in Reinforcement
There have been various, rumors re-
garding movement in opposition to
Senator LaFollette aud it has been
assumed for some time that the feel
ing would crystalize into some thing
IN the shape of an organization, but
this is the first definite statement
made on the subject. Immediately
after the beginning of thelyear the
work of organization 4. will be com
menced and from that time on the
fight for the delegates willtbe on in
earnest. There will be candidates
for Taft delegates in every9 cong ress-
ional districtS and also for delegates
at large. Who these will be is not
known fat the s'present time, as the
movement has not progressed that
far but there will be Taft ticket in
every district. The friends of the
secretary will make a hard fight to
capture majority of the delegation
and feel confident that when the vote
from the primaries is returned the
secretary will have quitessa showing in
the delegation.
GO fa
organiza ton for any other candidate,
aside from LaFo1lette, in the state.
While tentative efforts have been
made for delegates for Fairbanks and
Cannon not enough encouragement
was met to warrant a further prosecu
ton of the work and efforts in those
directions have therefore been drop
ped. The fight in the state twill now
be conferred on Taft and LaFollette.
In view of the conditions in the state
the Taft men feel confident that they
will be able to pick up enough dele
gates to make the, LaFollette dele
cation look anything but solid.
Efforts have been made to secure a
solid delegation on the basis Of dele
gates who would be for Senator La
Toilette until it should be shown that
he had no chance for nomination
when they would be swung to some
other candidate, supposedly Taft.
Such an arrangement, however, did
not suit either the Taft men or the
LaFol1ette men. The former turned
it down at once with the statement
that they were for Secretary sTaft,
and if they made fight it would be a
square and open one for the secretary.
The LaFollette men naturally would
have nothing TO do with it. What
they want is solid delegation for
the senior senator, and will be salts
fed with nothing else. The Taft
men say that in such casess the sup
porters are not going to be satisfied
with the happenings this spring for
they will have to divide the delegates
with Taft.
Petitions will be placed in'circula-
ton for Secretary Taft as soon as the
law will permit, which, will be the
latter part of January. Meanwhile
the work Of organizati ton will Ego on,
and It is expected by the Taft sup
porters that by the time thel petitions
can be circulated the Taftamen will
have a good organization in every
county in the state. Those at the
head of the movement have not be-
gun work earlier, as they could see
nothing to be gained by a long cam
paign, feeling that much better re-
suits might be achieved by a short
and hard campaign in the months
just preceding the primaries. But the
plans have been laid so that the Taft
organization will spring into life as
soon as those back of Reinforcement
give the word, and work Tor the dele
cation will be carried on energetically
from that time forward. s
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THE BANK. KEN0sHA.
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Tuesday, January 18th, 1908.
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Tuesday, January 21st, 1908.
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