The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
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 IN WISCONSIN Is Impossible to Forecast the
 Result HOT FIGHT FOR SENATOR LaFollette and Cook Wage Exciting Campaign-LaFolIet Appeals to the People on Representative
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M1waukee, September 4.-The pri- mary election campaign in Wisconsin which has but one more day to run has been strenuous from a candidate standpoint and 1t Is almost impossipie to forecast the result.
 Perhaps the most interesting con fest ts that for the indorsement TOT Tinted States senator on the republican tic,xet between Robert M. LaFollette' senior senator of Wisconsin, and sam uel A. Cook While Senator LaFollette' through a physical ailment, has not been able to enter the campaign per sonally, many speakers, both rom within and out of the state, have maoe a thorough canvass in his behalf Sen ator LaFollette makes his appeal to the people on only one issue. that ot representative government, while sam ueI A. Cook has covered the state witn much literature, setting forth hls rec ord in Congress and with the state nent that he stands for the progress sive policies of former Presloeh' Roosevelt and President Taft and Tor evsrv measure which will aid agri- cultural interests.
 Senator LaFollette will receive the support of most of the voters who are not aligned with the "standpat re- publicans, while MT. Cook, 1t Is gen erally conceded, will receive the sup mort of those opposed to the so-called Insurgents.
 folr Af ha n- test for the senatorial nomination IS between Congressman Charles A. Weiss of the Sixth district and Bert Will Hams, newspaper man of Ashland.
 John c. Kleist of Milwaukee Is un- opposed for the social democratic nom- nation for United States senator and Joseph c. Collins of Stephens Point will receive the prohibition support.
 The contest for the gubernatorial nomination is very much mixed af- fair from a republican standpoint, there being no fewer than five candi- dates
 Henry Barker of Sparta and Wn- liam Mitchell Lewis of Racine are go- ing before the people with county op- tion as the main issue; Edward T. Fair child and Francis B. McGovern of Mil waukee are opposing county option while John Strange of Neenah is run ming on business platform. Both Lewis and McGovern followers have been claiming all along that they fa- yor LaFollette's nomination and have his support, but the senator denies having expressed a preference for eith- er candidate. Fairchild will get the anti-LaFollette support.
 Adolph J. Schmitz will. receive the democratic indorsement for head of that party's state ticket; William A. Jacobs of Racine will be the social democratic standard bearer, and By ron E. vanKeuren of Oshkosh will be selected as nominee for governor by the prohibitionists.
 For Congress no fewer than 54 per sons on the various party tickets are seeking nominations. Republicans and social democrats have candidate In every district the former two or more in all except the Third, Sixth and Seventh where the incumbents are un- opposed in their party. Democrats have no candidate in the Eleventh dis trict and the prohibitionists are not represented In the Tenth and Eleventh Nearly If not all the republicans for Congress are opposed to Speaker Can non having another term and at least a majority of the present Wisconsin congressmen who are seeking renom- ination are in favor of further tariff reduction.