The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-20
State Senator Bishop Says That
WiIIofthe People viii Direct
His Vote for Senator
STEPHENSON SEEKS PLEDGES
Stephenson Managers Declare that
They Only Ask that Members of
State Legislature Follow
Peoples Viii

State Senator Isaac T. Bishop Of the
town of Somers has come out into the
open in regard to the United States
Senatorial fight and ne declared on
Wednesday to the representatives of
Isaac Stephenson who visited him at
his home in the town of Somers that
be would abide by the decision of the
primary election in regard to the cleo
ton of a United States senator and that
his vote for senator would 90 to the
man who receives the plurality of the
votes on the primary election. The
same pledge is being asked Of Assem-
blyman w M. Curtiss of Trevor by the
Stephenson heutenants today and it is
understood that every member of the
legislature will be visited and asked TO
give such a pledge 1t is an open
secret that Senator Bishop and Assem-
blyman Curtiss are not in the Stephen
son wagon, but neither of them have
expressed themselves as to their choice
for senator in a public manner. One
of the Stephenson managers who was
in Ken0sha ON Wednesday afternoon
said: 4" We are not asking any member
Of the legislature to declare for Ir.
Stephenson, but we are simply asking
them to agree to abide by the decision
of the primary election. We are con
WINGED thai the fight Mr.. Stephenson
is making is a winning fght and all
We ask is to have a square deal after
the primary is over. Tt has been stat
ed in some districts that the result of
the primary would cut little figure in
the election of the senator and that
after the legislature meets In January
Of next year the members of the two
houses viii vote for just who they see
fit regardless of the primary, but we
do not believe that this will be the
case. The primary election law was
passed with the votes of many of the
men who will vote for a senator next
year and we do not believe that these
men will vote directly against law
Of their own making" In some dis
tricts the members of the senate have
declared that they will be governed
by the primary vote in their districts
but it is held that this is not the letter
or the spirit Of the primary law
The Cook men have finally awakened
to the fact that Kenosha and Racine
counties are on the map and they are
now making a hard fight for votes for
Cook in rnls part of the state. They
claim that Cook is going to sweep the
state in the primary and that he will
surely be elected senator.
A good deal of interest is attached
to the effort that is being made by the
Stephenson men to secure the pledges
Of the legislators to abide by the de-
cision Of the primaries and it is de-
clared that both Cook and Stephenson
will make no effort to secure the cleo
tion if they are defeated in the pri-
mary. Many of the voters insist that
the McGovern fight viii be carried to
Madison if the Milwaukee man loses
at the primary, but it should be saIu
for McGovern that he has offered to
sign an agreement to keep hands off
II beaten IN the primaries.
The McGovern forces are making a
heavy bid for support in the Lake
Shore counties and McGovern will
spend all day Friday in this county
and the following day in Racine coun-
ty. There viii be. meetings at Wilmot
and Somers in this county, but it is
said that the farmers are not taking
any great interest in the meetings.
u-cGovern is fortunate in being one of
the state officers of the Woodmen and
while it has always been declared that
this fraternal organization always elm
mated politics the Milwaukee man is
working his membership in the order
for all there is to it and he seems to
be able to get the other members to
arrange meetings for him.