The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-23
Kenosha Man Urged by Friends
as Delegate to National
Republican Convention
COOPER MAY BE A CANDIDATE
State Central Committee Has Not De-
cided as to Method of Selecting
the Delegates and This Has
Prevented Active Work

John NJ Kehlor, of this city, is being
prominently mentioned as a candidate
for the honor of representing the First
District of Wisconsin at the coming
Republican National Convention at
Chicago, and the friends of Mr.. Kehlor
are actively pushing his candidacy in
different parts of the District. It has
been a long time since Kenosha had
man to represent the District in the
National Convention and while Mr..
Kehlor is not at this time making any
active fight for the position Of delegate
he stated yesterday that he felt willing
to go to the convention and that if
his friends circulated petitions in his
behalf he would go into the fight and
make an effort to secure the election
Mr.. Kehlor would demand that he go
to the convention unpledged and he
would not be elected as a delegate for
the support Of any special candidate.
The announcement of the candidacy of
Mr.. Kehlor comes as the first Of any
Of the MEN seeking to be delegates to
the National Convention, but there is
little doubt but that there will be MANY
candidates in the field. Evansville, the
political pot Of the first district, has
not as yet produced a candidate, and
it is said that many of the old line
Republicans in Rock county will be
very favorable to the candidacy Of the
Kenosha man. The men who are seek
ing a delegate from the District who
will go to the convention pledged to
the support Of Senator LaFollette have
settled on H. A. Cooper, the member
of Congress from the district, according
to the statement of one of the most
ardent supporters of the Senator in this
county, and it is supposed that Con
gresham Cooper will have all the sup
port that can be given him by the
various LaFollette clubs. There is a
large number of Republicans in the
District, however, that believe in send
ing delegate who is not pledged to any
candidate and it is thought that Kehlor
being the first delegate in the field and
on platform opposed to any pledge
will receive the support of nearly of
all of these people
Mr. Kehlor is widely known among
the politicians in the District He has
several times represented Kenosha
county in the State and Congressional
conventions and has always been active
in these gatherings He has never
held a political office and has never
sought any Office outside his home city.
There is little doubt but that he will
have q large measure of support in Ke-
nosha and Racine counties and he will
MAKE hard fight for the votes in
all parts of the District. The announ-
cement Of candidacy of men seeking
to go as delegates to the National Con
ventlon has been held back on account
of the fact that there is some doubt
as to how the delegates will be selected.
Assemblyman Walker M Curtiss was
IN the city yesterday and when asked
as to the method for the selection of
delegates he said that it was his under
that this matter must be settl-
ed by the State Central Committee.
The Committee will have meeting in
Milwaukee early in February, and if
the decision is that the old caucus
system will be used, the work will be
started at once. However there is a
possibility, and in fact a probability
that majority of the members of the
will favor the selection of
the delegate by primary election and
it this decision is reached the petitions
will have to be circulated before the
last of February.