The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-26
LOOK FOR PARTY HARMONY
Candidates Not in Sympathy With The
Platform Convention Along Certain
Lines Declare That They Are Fav-
orable to National Party Ticket.

NOGWlLnSbanQmg the Iallure OF LHe
csate convention to endorse President
Taft and the national republican plat
form the members of the republican
committee of Kenosha county will
support the president and the officials
of the committee will be in charge of
the circulating of the literature sent
out by the national party press bureau.
Already this matter is beginning to
arrive in Kenosha and it will be taken
care of by the local committee. The
committee in this county will be reg
ular and will support republican prin-
ciples. It is expected that the COM
mittee will also cooperate with the
state central committee Of the party
and urge the election of the republi-
can state ticket.
Candidates on the county ticket in
the light of the platform convention
fear that the new law which places
national candidates on separate bal
lot may act as a boomerang this year
and cause a lot of trouble for the
state and county candidates. Many
time the republican majority on the
presidential ballot has pulled through
the county ticket, but this can not be
depended on this year as a ballot for
Taft and Sherman will not, as in the
past, carry with it a vote for all other
candidates of the party in the state
and county. The separate ballot plan
promises to be annoying to lots of the
voters and it is feared that it will
work against legislative and county
candidates.
The failure of the republican state
platform convention to endorse the
national ticket comes distinct dis
appointment to leaders in Kenosha
county, but these men see benefit in
the move as they hold that failure to
endorse the ticket to a great extent
takes from them the necessity Of car
rying the burdens of the state admin
istration and they can not be CRITICS
Ell for luke warm support of the gov
ernor and the other men on the state
ticket. Some Of the candidates have
openly declared that they were not in
sympathy with legislation passed by
the last legislature and that they are
not in sympathy with the declarations
Of the platform convention on this
legislation. They hold that this fact
does not in any way read them out of
the republican party on account Of the
fact that they are endorsing the ma
tional nominees of the party and that
they rather than the state central com
mittee must be given the badge Of
"party regularity.
There is to be no let up in the cam
paign in this county and the leaders
of both parties are busy making or
CARNATIONS throughout the county.
1t is said that the speaking campaign
will open about the first of October
and that many Of the leading
speakers Of both the democratic and
republican parties will be sent to Ke-
nosha by the national speakers bureau
Of the parties.
The state central committee of the
Bull Moosers meets at Milwaukee to-
day and at this meeting it is expect
ed that definite action will be taken
on the state ticket. The action of the
Platform convention is said to be sat
isfactory to leaders of the Roosevelt
movement in Wisconsin and il is
probable that they will regard Gov
ernor McGovern as one of their own
and not seek to oppose him with a
third candidate.