The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-19
Hurrah Expected for Last Week
Of Primary Campaign Fails !.
To Develop as Yet
CANDIDATES WORK QUIETLY
House to House Canvass Being Made,
But Little Effort is Being Made
To Swing Saloon Vote
BY Beer Route

There is no Disgusting the fact that
the last week of the primary campaign
IS proving distinct disappointment.
The saloon which laid in an added
supply of beer and liquor with the
understand ding that there would be great.
doings is having the keenest possible
disappointment for last night trip to
the larger number of the saloons indi-
Gated that they were all but deserted
and with the exception of few places
which were controlled either by candi-
dates or their close political friends
there was little buying gong on. The
regular hangers on at the saloon are
still waiting with parched throats and
tongues hanging out for the arrival of
the politicians with their money to go
over the bar. 1t is Just possible that
the last three days of the week will
bring the business that the saloons ex-
iected, but there is no Indication that
the beer is to flow in rivers or cigars.
be handed out with the free hand that
prevailed at the last primary election
for candidate for mayor.
The Republican candidates for the
nomination for mayor have practically
made no effort to get this floating vote
and most of their work is being done
in quiet house to house canvasses.
Thousands of personal letters have
been sent out by the three candidates
during the last few weeks and it is GER
tain that this form of campaign appeals
to them much more than the one in
which beer and cigars played the prin-
cipal part. A strong effort is being
made to land the foreign vote by the
Republican candidates. Candidate Al
leman has issued his platform printed
Trenary is advertising his candidacy in
I'D Faro" the Milwaukee Italian paper
which has large circulation among the
Italians of Kenosha. Candidate Hege-
man is now making his final round up
Of the voters.
AS to who will be the Republican can
didate is a matter which is proving the
biggest riddle offered to politicians in
Kenosha. There are men and leaders
who declare for each man in the race
and the mar who can pick from these
predictions would be able to make lot
of money, There seems to be absolute
ly no betting on the Republican nominal
tion but the betting on the Democratic
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Scholey.
German and Scholey are working
night and day but their work is not of
the spectacular sort and the men are
scarcely ever seen in the down town
districts.
In some of the wards the ward fights
are exciting more interest than the
mayorality race. The Sixth ward is
seeing one of the hardest fights in the
history Of the ward over the Democra-
tic nomination for alderman and this
fight is being made with considerable
interest. G. f. Stemm the father of
municipal ownership IS in the race again
in this ward and his candidacy is at
tracing the most attention Stemm was
badly beaten last year but he claims
that he will be able to reverse the thing
this year and that he will defeat both
Edward Z'evers the present alderman
and George W. Wade who seeks the
nomination.
The hardest fight in the Republican
wards is in the Second ward where the
Democrats have not put any candidate
in the field and where nomination will
be equivalent to election. The three
candidates here are Joseph Harry,
Hans Peter Larsen and w. T. Marlatt
and all of them are hard at work.
In the Third ward the Republican
light is just as spirited between Alfred
il. Simons, Martin Anderson and
Charles Turnock. #T sa.3
In the Fourth ward John Anderson
and J. II. Blair are having good fight
and the friends of both men claim the
victory.
In the Eighth ward the Democrats
have two butchers and fisherman look /
ing for the nomination for alderman
and the fight is bitter. The candidates
include Charles Deffry the well known
Main street market man, Fred H.
Joernt the fisherman and John W.
Wade another market man.
The only contest for school commits
sioner in any of the wards is in the
Third where Fred Becker the we'll
known wagon maker is contesting for
the nomination against J. W. DeCou,