The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-01-13
NOT VERY ACTIVE IN KENOSHA
Cooper and Lar Toilette are Claimed to
be Disseminated Against in the Dis
tribution of Political Patronage in
the District and State.

Congressman H. A. Cooper declares
that the Republican congressional COM
mittee or the house organization is
decidedly active in the First Congress
sional district in an effort to defeat
him for reelection. Mr.. Cooper claims
to have been advised of these activit-
les but what is being done none Of
the politicians in this end of the dis
trict seem to know Assemblyman
Wallace Ingalls, who will seek the con-
gressOnal nomination against Mr..
Cooper is making a hard campaign but
At is not believed that he or any of his
supporters know of the activities al
legged by Mr.. Cooper. 1t is going to
be the greatest campaign ever known
in the district and Mr.. Cooper realizes
that his opponent this year is much
stronger campaigner than was Thomas
Nolan of GAINESVILLE who twice tried to
beat Nj. Cooper for the nomination.
1t is claimed that the Republican
congressional committee has been cir
culatiug literature denouncing the in
surgent member Of congress and that
the committee or the house organiza-
ton will use it's influence in opposi-
tion to- the denomination of certain
insurgents. So far as is known no
such literature has been received in
this city or in the district.
While Congressman Cooper was one
of the insurgent leaders and was OPP
posed to the rules of Speaker Cannon
he did not oppose the Payne Aldrich
bill as he voted for it,
Whether Congressman Cooper is
member of "the in bad" club is not
known. If he is then his recommends
tons for appointments to federal posi-
tions in his district may not receive
much consideration from President
Taft as Victor Rosewater, the news
paper publisher of Omaha and national
committeeman from Nebraska in an
authorized interview said:
1.-THE president said to me that he
wanted me to help correct the reports
that are being circulated to the effect
that he is using the patronage club to
whip socalled insurgents into line. The
president says that there is we'll
founded custom that has become al
most a rule that in making certain
appointments, such as postmasters, the
tion of the members of congress in
whose districts the appointments lie, if,
reported by member of the same pol
itical party.
This obligation resting on the pres
ident however, is reciprocal, he feels.
The Republican congressman, he de-
clares, is under a similar obligation to
support administration measures recon-
mended by the president to carry out
platform pledges on which both were
elected. The president says~ he has
not turned down recommendations of
insurgent congressman but is preserv-
ing the status quo to impress them of
their obligation"
Senator LaFollette, one of the SEN
ate insurgents is hardly recognized by
President Taft and two appointments
held up for months. He expected that
his recommendations for United States
district attorney for the Eastern States
district attorney for the Eastern dis
trict of Wisconsin and the collector of
customs at Milv lukee would be accept
ed by President Taft but they were not
and the appointments are still held up,
despite the fact that the terms of of
flee of the incumbents expired several
months ago.
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