The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
START FIGHT IN MILWAUKEE
Speakers of Prominence to be Called
Into the State to Aid in the Great
Battle for the illumination of the
Saloon.

line Wisconsin AnGl-Sa1O0n league
will in a few days institute state
wide fight against the saloon licenses
and it is announced that the ques-
ton of. license or no license will be
put up to the people in 800 cities and
towns Of the state. The bulwark of the
brewers in Milwaukee is to be invaded
and efforts will be made to make Mil
waukee dry. This announcement was
made by Ulysses G. Humphrey, the lead
of the league, on Friday.
Kenosha is of course included in the
places where the battle is to be fought
and this city will be made one Of the
storm centers by the league.
Milwaukee will vote upon the Ii
quor question at the spring election in
April" said Mr.. Humphrey, Friday.
eve will start campaign in a few
days to secure the necessary $500 sig
natures and take immediate steps
to organize that city to fight the
granting of licenses there in the future.
''We have been planning on the
move for some time and the campaign
will be hard fought. We will bring
some of the best speakers in the coun-
try to Milwaukee.
"Something had to be done. Brew
ers tell us they are working for the in
terests Of better saloons. Well, we will
force either the retirement of the sa-
loon or better conditions in the city
There will be no trouble in getting the
signatures required. We have al
ready received sufficient appeals to in
sure us of that number. The law re-
quires that at least 10 per cent of the
number Of votes cast at the preced-
ing election be represented in an ap-
peal for special election. There were
about $4,000 cast in Milwaukee -
The Milwaukee campaign will be a
part Of a statewide fight, involving
500 cities and towns, and bring the
liquor and saloon question before the
people of every section and town in the
state. Nearly all the larger cities will
be affected.
The Fox River valley has been Sc
lected as the scene of an especially
hard campaign. Fond du Lac, Osh-
kosh, Neenah, Menasha, Appleton and
Green Bay, and possibly Depere and
Kaukauna will vote Sturgeon Bay
and Algoma in Door county will vote.
Sturgeon Bay went "dry" by four
votes last spring and the liquor men
want another vote. Marinette will
also vote, an active campaign being on
there now.
The college towns will be made the
point of>a specially hard fight In
Ripon, Beloit, Madison and Appleton
the war will be waged with vigor APP
pleton and Beloit went wet year ago
by close votes.
Racine, Kenosha and Waukesha, 9th
er towns in the Madison district, will
vote. Berlin, Neilsville, Wausau, Anti
go and Rhinelander have already been
invaded by the anti-liquor forces and
the papers will be filed within a short
time. Chippewa Falls, Ashland, Sup
erior, New Richmond, Sparta, Baraboo,
Lake Geneva, Eau Claire, Whitewater,
Oconomowoc, Dodgeville, and Wau-
watosa all will be worked by the anti
saloon men.
Campaigners are now working in
Milwaukee and the twenty-three wards
of that city are being canvassed and
organized. The campaign will be car
ried on the same as by the political
parties. Sufficient money has already
been assured, claims Mr.. Humphrey, to
push the fight. At least fifty men will
be at work continually from now I'M
til after the election under the direc-
tion of the Rev. F. G. Weed, superin-
tendent of this district
George R. Stewart of Tennessee, one
of the ablest anti-saloon men in the
south, will be here during part of the
campaign. Judge W. A. Covington of
Georgia, who pushed the prohibition