The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-12
NEW MEN IN common COUNCIL
Old Members of the Council Will Have
Hard Time to Hold Their Places
and New Candidates are Already
'Bobbing Up in ALI Wards.
(From Thnrsday s Dailyl

Notwithstanding the fact that the
mercury is lowering about the zero
mark the city campaign in Kenosha
opened today. 1t may have been a
hard matter for even the most harden
ed politicians to have heard the creak
of the opening but Notwithstanding this
fact under the law the campaign is on
and candidates for municipal Offices
may under the law begin the circula-
tion of their petitions as candidates
and they have until the fifth of March
to file these petitions with the City
Clerk. The primary election viii be
held on March 21st and the election on
April 4th.
At this election the people of the
city will eect Justice of the Peace to
succeed John J. Connery and the full
quota of County Supervisors and Con-
stables and In addition eight aldermen
and eight school commissioners. 1t is
not probable that there will be any
great struggle for the office of Justice
Of the Peace and if the place is filed it
will be unusual. "Judge Connery"
was elected two years ago this spring
and he has yet to have his first case
to decide. There is going to be some
thing doing in regard to the election
of aldermen and while the campaign
Is just barely pried open within month
it is certain that the politicians will
be decidedly busy. 1t is freely pre-
dicted that there will be lot of strange
faces on the Common Council when that
body meets after the election.
In the first ward it is pretty certain
that James III. O'Brien will be can
didate to succeed himself and he has
been willy candidate in the past and
may be expected to pull in good many
votes. 1t is pretty certain that he
will have opposition at the primary as
some of the administration democrats
have not been any too friendly toward
the alderman and it is an open secret
that they are looking for his scalp. If
O'Brien gets on his fighting clothes
aud goes into the campaign to win any
man who defeats him in the primary
will have to run some. In the second
ward, the banner and one really repub-
lican ward in the city the fight will be
an open one. Alderman Timme after
four years in the council has declared
that he viii not seek reelection and
it is certain that there will be candi-
dates a plenty for his star. Already
DIR. E. F. Rowell member Of the
school board has been spoken of as a
candidate for the republican nomina-
ton and he has been promised lot
, of support.
In the third ward Alderman John
Hegeman will be a candidate to sue
coed himself but it is certain that the
democrats will make a strong fight to
carry this ward. The democrats are
also claiming the fourth ward in which
Alderman Higley has already an
nounced that he will retire from office
but the ward is conslG Ned excellent
fighting ground for the republicans,
George Harbaugh elected by the re-
pubhcans in the fifth ward has made no
announcement as to his intentions but
If the fifth ward is as strong demo
cratic ward as it has been shown to
be in the last two elections any repub-
lican who is elected will have to rally
q great popular vote. The sixth, sew.
enth and eighth wards will all have
the present Aldermen, Stemn, Werner
and Saftig as candidates for reelection
unless something comes up to change
the plans of the officials.
1t is pretty certain that there will
be strong opposition to some of these
aldermen and the democrats may have
bitter warfare in their own Camp
on primary election day..
The members of the Board of Edu-
cation whose terms expire this year
include Mathew Mungen, DIR. E. F.
ROwel, Chester D. Barnes, Dan 0.
Head, e. W. Mueller, Joseph Leinen-
weber, Henry Zeitler and j. j. Mayer.
There is little doubt but that a number
OF these men will seek reelection but
the greater number of them will seek
to be relieved from further service on
the board.