The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-12-15
STAHL PAYS MOST FOR OFFICE
Defeated Candidates in Nearly Every
Case Expended More During Cam
paign Than Those VINO Were Elected
Accounts are Interesting.

Today was the last day for the filing
Of the expense accounts of candidates
at the recent primary and general cleo
tions and all of the Kenosha county
candidates have complied with the
law. Mayor Scholey has not as yet
fled an account but he called up the
Clerk and notified him that his account
was ready and gave him the amount
with the understanding that the formal
sworn account will be fled as soon as
the Mayor returns from a business trip
to Madison Isaac 7. Bishop elected
State Senator on the republican ticket
leads the list with his account of
$7S3.85 and Andrew f. Stahl who was
successful in his campaign for election
as sheriff is second with an account
Of 1858.
The accounts of the social democrat
ic candidates have all been filed and
they look as if they were written with
carbon copy. Not one cent was ex-
pended by any of the candidates for
the election and the county chairman
OF the party shows that what little
money was expended was for the cir
culation of social democratic literature
rather than for the advancement of
the interests Of any candidate for Of
fee. For the most part the successful
democratic candidates spent less than
the defeated republican candidates,
Henry j. Hastings who was elected
District Attorney by four votes shows
by his account that he got the office
without the expenditure of single
cent. His account is blank and he
states that so far as he knows no mon.
ey was expended in his behalf. Mr..
Hastings has the distinction of being
the hrst man elected to a county office
in Kenosha county without the expen-
diture of any money. His republican
opponent Robert Verne Baker files an
account of $45 as his contribution to
the general expense Of holding an
election in the county. The total mon
ely expended in the primary and general
campaign will go into the thousands
of dollars. There is no mention made
in this county of the vast sums spent
by state organizations during the cam
paigns and hundreds of dollars were
spent in the primary campaign for
which no report will be made to the
officials of Kenosna county. The
amounts scheduled by the candidates
Of the various parties are as follows:
Social democratic: No expense what
ever by any candidate.
Republicans: Isaac 7. Bishop, candi-
date for State Senator $7s3.S5. Charles
Il. Gonnermann $146.50. P. G. Torrey
$119.5o; Ansel T. Dorothy, nothing
Philip Hartman Jr., $3.50; Frank e.
Andre, SIS; w. M. Curtiss, $171.84;
William y. ochm1tz, $3.50; John G.
Williams, nothing; Frank Waldo, $131;
Q. FL. Whitcher, $127.5O; Russell H.
Jones, $4,000; Robert Verne Baker,
$45.
Democratic: NJ. j. Scholey 1888
William F. UT, $72.1O; Leo HI. Flasch,
$1o6.5o; Henry J. Hastings, nothing;
George B. McCarron, $31; John M.
Thorn 500; Benjamin M. deDiemar $84 f:
Andrew Anderson, $3.50; Andrew f.
Stahl, 1888; Andrew B. Schmitz, $40.
The accounts show that the candi-
dates spent the greater part of their
money for assessments to the various
county campaign committees and for
printed matter.