The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-04-02
COMPARES BOTH CANDIDATES
Finds Record of Alleman One Worthy
Of Study While That of Scholey
Units Him for High Position
Which He Is Seeking
Kenosha, Wis, Mar. 80, 1908.

MY DCdI
AS an Independent Voter deeply in
terested in the welfare of Kenosha, I
desire to ask for a small amount of
space in your valuable paper for a dis
cussion of the present municipal cam
paign. | am not man prone to rush
into print on trivial subjects, but it
seems to me that the condition existing
in Kenosha today is one which warrants
every man putting his hand to the
wheel and making his best possible eff
fort to avoid danger which is threat
ening Kenosha as municipality. One
week from tomorrow the people of the
city are to elect city officials for two
years. The tickets have been made up
at the primary and while both tickets
contain the names of men of undoubt-
ed worth, the people of the city should
know exactly the conditions surround
ing the fight for mayor. It is this that
is of most interest to the Independent
voters of the city. / for one believe
that it would be calamity to the city
to elect M. j. Scholey as mayor and
[ do not see how any man interested
in the best things for Kenosha, could
for minute consider voting for Mr..
Scholey. I did not support either Mr.
Scholey or Mr.. Alleman at the primary
election, but now that the nominations
have been made, [ appreciate that Mr..
Alleman is by all measures the man
best suited for the office. In fact [ be-
heve that the election of Mr.. Scholey
would be one of the worst backward
steps the city of Kenosha. has ever
taken. Personally I am acquainted with
Mr.. Scholey and [ know him to be
hale fellow well met, most successful
beer agent, good sport and as should
follow an excellent loser. My acGuain
lance with Mr. Alleman is entirely
limited to statements made to me by
his friends and by his Council record
1t is from this record that I am inclined
to call him by far the best candidate
of the two. Mr.. Alleman has clean
record as member Of the Common
Council. He was one of the active men
on the Council and took great deal of
interest in all movements for progress
in the city. He was at the head Of the
committee on public parks when the i'm
provements to Eichelman Park were
made. He was always ready to aid
Mayor German in any plan to secure
the paving of the streets of the city
and held that this work should be done
just as rapidly as the people desired it
and the conservative management of the
city would allow. He aided materially
in having the Kenosha City Cemetery
turned over to the new association, in
my opinion one of the wisest moves
ever made by the Kenosha City Council.
He was member of the street railway
committee and to the last urged the
four cent fare proposition as a part of
the ordinance providing for the extern
sions and in this way secured the con-
cession for universal transfers on all
lines owned by the company in Kenosha
This will mean much to the city when
the lines OF the company are extended.
When the matter of municipal
lighting plant was brought up, Mr.. Allie
man at his own cost and expense went
to various cities to investigate the
plants in those cities and on his return
stated that while he favored NUM-
cipal plant, he thought that it should
be built only after the fullest consid-
Grafton Of the conditions in Kenosha
The records of the Council indicate that
Mr.. Alleman was man who did things.
He was always at the meetings Of the
Council and never lodged any impor-
tant issue. At the opening of the
second year of his term on the Council
it was evident that he was political
possibility for mayor and at this time
the Democratic administration seemed
to have realized his possibilities and he
was placed on committees where he
could not take an active part in the
affairs of the city. Notwithstanding
this, he kept on plugging for the things
he had started when member of the
more important committees and when
he resigned from the Council nearly all
of these plans were well under way.
On the other hand the record of Mr..
Scholey is either one of negative nat
ure or one not to call for any approba-
ton from the citizen who has the best
interests of the city at heart. Mr..
Scholey I find, first became known in
Kenosha as the bartender at Main
street saloon, which was at that time
the meeting place of certain men of the
Council and certain railway promoters
who have been credited with giving
Kenosha the first "boodlen railway
ordinance.
Mr. Schloy learned his first lessons in
politics behind the bar dealing out
drinks to these men and it is evident
that he took advantage of them. In
another year he had become the
agent for Kenosha of the Fortune
Brothers Brewing Company and soon
after followed his election to the City
Council as a representative of the Fifth