The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-09-23
TO MAKE RACE FOR MAYOR
Former Mayor Will in the Near Future
Issue a Full Statement of His Views
in Regard to His Candidacy and Hot
Campaign is Assured.
(From Thursdav's Daily)

Former Mayor James German in re-
spouse to an invitation from com
mittee consisting of leading Demo
Gratis of the city has formally announc-
ed that he will accept the call of his
party ana be candidate for the
Democratic nomination for mayor be-
fore the primaries to be held next
March
The committee which was made up
of many of the leading Democrats of
the city called on Mr.. German on
Thursday and formally invited him to
become a candidate and Mr. German
announced that he would enter the
race. For some time the candidacy
Of the former mayor has been dis
cussed among the Democrats but he
was unwilling to take any steps to
come into the field until after he had
been shown that there was desire
on the part of members of the party
for him to be a candidate and this
desire seems to be apparent.
In speaking of the matter this morn
ing the former mayor said 81 told
the members of the committee that L
would be candidate for mayor, but
it seems to me that it is little early
as yet for a formal announcement but
/ shall be in the race for the nomina-
tioA and he there until the last vote
is counted During the last month
many of the members of not only the
Democratic party but the Republican
party as well have come to me and
asked me to enter the race for mayor
and | can not see how | can refuse to
answer the call of these political
friends. / have been assured support
from botn parties and men in the
parties who were closely associated
with me in the former years which ]
served as mayor have been kind
enough to suggest that my election as
mayor at this time woulu not be a bad
thing for the city. In due time | will
give out more formal announcement
in which / expect to express to the
people of the city my views in regard
to the big municipal questions now
pending. There are lot of these
things that l have taken personal
interest In and | believe that the So
lutions which l will offer will be such
as will appeal to the people of the
city"
The announcement of Mr. German
will be hailed with great deal of joy
among the older democracy Of the city
and it is certain that these people will
rally to the German standard and make
hot fight for the new candidate.
Mr.. German will stand on his record
as mayor. He has served the city as
mayor for three terms and during that
time many important improvements
were made in the city.
One of the members of the commit
tee in speaking of the call to Mr.. Cor
man said: ''We canvassed the situa-
tion pretty thoroughly and we find that
German is the choice of fully three
fowths of the Democrats of Kenosha
for mayor. We believe that German
can do more than any other man to
bring things in Kenosha back to where
they were when he was retired in the
spring of 1908 There is one thing
about German that caused his can
didacy to be favored by business men
and that is the fact that he always
took good care of the finances of the
city. We are ready to make hot
fight for his nomination along these
lines and we believe that when the
primary is held it will be shown that
he is the choice of the big majority of
the Democrats of the city,
The announcement of the candidacy
of Mr. German will cause decided
stir in some of the other camps of
Democracy as several of the pseudo
candidates have hoped against hope
that German would not come into the
field
The Republicans are not taking any
further steps to secure candidate for
mayor, but Frank Marx and William
F. Fisher are still being persistently
mentioned as the candidates of that
party.