The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
Governor McGovern Plans
to Inaugurate His State
Campaign in Kenosha.
COMMITTEES ARE IN DOUBT
Republicans ard Moosers in Doubt as
to Which of the Committees Should
Provide for the Entertainment Of the
Governor and Pay Expenses.

Governor Francis E. McGovern is
planning to take the bull by the horns
in Kenosha county on Thursday. There
is some doubt as to whether the horns
are to be the horns of bull moose and
the grasp in the nature of an embrace
or if the Governor is to confne his
efforts to the old DULL Of mythology with
the understanding that the grasp is
to be the strangle hold of death con-
test. The announcement of the coming
Of the Governor was sent out by the
Republican State Central committee
this morning and it is admitted that it
came something as surprise to the
members Of the county committee. The
committee had not as yet any plans for
the entertainment of speakers and it
is admitted that funds for such pur-
poses are limited. The State Chairman
has declared to the chairman Of the
committee that Mr.. McGovern is COM
ing to Kenosha on the defensive and
that it is his intention to fight shy of
national issues entirely and give his
entire time to the defense of the pres
ent state administration. Nothing is
to be said Of the recent swing of the
Governor to the Bull Moose movement.
The County committee is supposed to
make provisions for the entertainment
of the governor. He is to arrive in
Kenosha on the $3.50 train and it is his
desire that a couple of meetings be ar
ranged for the rural districts in the
afternoon with the evening speech In
one of the halls in the city. The COM
mittee met this morning to make ar
engagements for the meeting but there
was difference of opinion as to how
the arrangements would work out. The
members are anxious to further the can
didacy of men running on the county
ticket and it had been the agreement
that state and national issues would be
made subservient to the county work.
The state committe and Governor Me-
Govern are insistent that the governor
open his state wide campaign in Ken
osha.
The campaign speeches are to be
started, in Milwaukee on Wednesday
evening when the Governor will speak
under the auspicies of the Republican
state central committee. 1t is under
stood that he will support the entire
state ticket and refrain from National
issues in Milwaukee as well as in other
parts of the state.
Kenosha is the first county in which
the Republican County Committee has
been asked to take part in the civil
warfare in the party and it is probable
that the action here will in great
measure dictate the action Of com
mittees in other parts of the state. The
leaders of the Bull Moose club in Ken
osha state that they have been informed
informally of the coming Of the Gov
ernor to Kenosha but that they have not
been invited to make any provisions
for the meeting. 1t is just possible that
the Governor may change his trip
through the state and start at Racine
instead of Kenosha.
The county committee has been asked
to book speakers from the bureau Of
the National Republican committee but
as yet no request for these speakers
has been made. 1t is an open secret
that the Republicans of the county
would much prefer to be allowed to
work out their own campaign without
any interference on the part of either
the state or National organization as
they hold that this is a year in which
people are divided politically and that
they should have chance to seek
election to county offices without be-
ing Handicapped with the troubles of a
divided party of the state and nation.