Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-08-25
COUNTY OPTION No
WISCONSIN ISSUE
AT LEAST TWENTY SENATORS
CERTAIN TO BE RANGED
AGAINST 1T.
CANNOT REACH GOVERNOR
II, May Divide Progressive Vote and
Make Possible Nomination of
Connor-Tory Ticket.


Madison, Aug. 15.-No county op-
ton bill can reach the governor for
veto or approval, because a majority
of the senate, under any and all cir
cumstances, will be against it.
The county option question in the
present primary campaign may, how
ever, split the Progressive Republican
vote, and thereby make possible the
election of Tory reactionary ticket.
Why can no county option bill reach
the next governor of Wisconsin? The
facts that follow answer that question,
and these facts cannot be refuted.
Any bill, to pass the senate, must
muster to its support a total OF II
votes. Otherwise a majority of the
80 senators are against it.
Eleven HoId-Overs Against II.
Of the 80 senators who will sit in
the 1911 legislature, fifteen, allowing
for the resignation of Senator Thomas
Morris, are hold-overs. Of these if
teen, eleven voted against the last
county option bill. They will vote
against similar bill In 1911.
Therefore, if only six antl-county 3D.
ton senators are elected this year,
any county option bill is defeated be-
fore it can reach the governor for his
rejection or approval
These are the eleven hold-over SEN
ators who voted against county option
when the last county option bill was
before the senate:
Timothy Burke of Green Bay; Henry
Bodenstab of Milwaukee; w. R. Gay
lord of Milwaukee; John G. Kleczka
of Milwaukee; Walter c. Owen of Maid
en- Rock; A. w Sanborn of Ashland:
J. Elmer Lehr of Appleton; Edward H
Lyons of Fond du Lac; Henry Krum-
reg of Plymouth; John w Thomas Of
Chippewa Falls; and James A. Wright
of Merrill.
Look now at the senatorial districts
in which elections are to be held this
year.
Districts Certainly Against It,.
In the Seventh district, Milwaukee
county, the candidates to succeed
George E. Page, now running for con-
gress are Bernhard Jungbluth, Pro
gressive Republican, and George Brew,
Tory. Both are against county op-
ton
In the Fifth district the candidates
running for the place held in the last
senate by q. T. Fairchild are George
j Weigle, Progressive Republican;
Fred Landeck, Progressive Republic
an, and William E. Banks, Tory. All are
against county option.
Both the Democrats and the Social
Democrats are opposed to county op-
ton. Therefore, no matter who wins,
Milwaukee county will return two anti
county option senators to Madison.
In the Ninth district, composed of
Adams, Marquette, Waushara and
Wood counties, and a district that is
certainly Republican, the Progressive
candidate is Edward Kileen. His Tory
opponent is Nash Mitchell Both are
against county option. Whoever wins,
therefore, another vote is added to the
poll against county option.
In the Thirteenth district Senator
Paul O. Husting stands for reelection.
Indications are that he will win. In
any event, the district is normally
Democratic, and a Democratic senator
will be returned. The Democrats are
against county option Another vote
against any county option bill is GER
tain.
More Anti-County Option Votes.
In the Fifteenth district Senator s.
W. Randolph, Democrat, of Mantle
voc, is candidate for reelection. His
opponents are S. F. Wehrwein, Pro-
gressiVe, and Lawrence Ledvina, Tory.
All three candidates are against coun-
ty option. Therefore, whoever wins,
another anti-county option vote goes
to the senate.
In the Seventeenth district, Senator
H. c. Martin, Darlington, a Progress
sive Republican, is certain of re-elec-
ton. He Is against county option.
In the Nineteenth district, Winneba-
go county, the candidates are M. s.
White of Winneconne, Progressive,
and Charles Oelerich of Oshkosh,
Tory Both are against county op-
ton.
In the Twenty-fifth district, made I'D
of Clark and Marathon counties, the
option sentiment Is so
strong that Senator Spencer M. Marsh,
father of county option in Wiscon-
SIM" does not stand for reelection.
His attitude itself comedies the cleo
ton of an anti-county option senator
from this district. In this district the
candidates are DR.. w. N. Daniels of
Mosinee, Progressive Republican, and
George W. Crosby of Abbottsford and
Frank f. Chesak of Athens, Tories
All are against county option
In the Thirty-third district, COM
prfsed Of Washington and Waukesha
counties, the candidates are DR.. George
3. Hcyt, Progressive, and Milo Muckle-
stone, Tory. Both stand against coun-
~ option. No matter which wins, there
fore, yet another vote against any
county option bill is recorded
Can Never Reach Governor.
In other words, nine senatorial dis |
trlcts are certain to send to Madison |
opposed to county option.
Add these nine to the eleven hold |
over senators who stand against coun-
y option. The result is twenty sena-