The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-01-04
PRIMARY TO Be HELD MAR. 10 PIONEER DAYS ARE Ed
Dan Head Being Strongly Urged as
Candidate for Mayor on Republican
Ticket-Hot Fights Are Promised
for Both Parties in Making Ticket.
The municipal campaign Of 1912 in

The municipal campaign Of 1912 in
Kenosha opens on Wednesday and af
ter tomorrow candidates may file petit
tions for nomination for the various
ward and city Offices. Sixty days is
allowed by the law for fling petit.
tions and the petitions for all can
didates must be filed with the city
clerk on or before the 3rd day of
March. The primary election will take
place on March 10Th and the election
two weeks later on April End. Already
several of the candidates have their
petitions ready for circulation, but it
is not thought that there will be any
rush of candidates until after the first
of February. The leaders in the cam
paign seem to be willing to have a
short campaign, but with a promise
of a goodly number Of candidates it
looks certain that the campaign when
it does get under way will be one OF
the hottest in the history Of the city
There have been few changes in
the primary election law save the cut
ting out of the twenty per cent rule
and the candidate to get on the party
ballot will now have to get only five
per cent of the voters of his party
It is thought that this change in the
law will make it possible to fill up the
tickets in Kenosha this year and that
there will be no elections by default.
Dan Head who has served the city
with distinction as MEMBER Of the
common council and as q member of
the board of education is being men
toned as the Republican candidate fol-
mayor. Mr.. Head has made no formal
announcement Of his candidacy, but
his close political friends believe that
he will be candidate if he is shown
that he is the choice of the party. A
successful business man and a man
with clean record from every view
point Mr.. Head would make an ideal
candidate and an ideal mayor. He
represents the younger business ele.
ment of Kenosha and has a great host
of friends in both parties. AS acting
president Of the Kenosha Industrial
Association he has done much to adj
vance the business interests of the
city.
If Mr.. Head consents to head the
Republican ticket it is certain that
the party will have a full ticket and
one of the strongest tickets ever of
fered to the voters. Mayor Scholey is
already actively engaged in his cam
paign work and as yet no formal an
nouncement has been made of any one
to oppose him. N. j. Werner, alder
man from the seventh ward is being
strongly urged by the people of the
north side of the city as candidate
and he may enter the field and con-
test with the "big boss for the
nomination.
City Clerk Harrington, City Treas
urer SteinmetZ have both announced
themselves as candidates for another
term and it is expected that Henry
Biennemann and John Langan will
again seek election as assessors.
There are going to be some hot con-
tests in the wards and there promises
to be great supply of candidates
among both the Republicans and the
Democrats. 1t is announced that
every one of the members of the coun-
Gil whose terms expire with the posi-
BILE execution Of Alderman N. j.
Werner wiz be candidates for re-
election. 1t is pretty certain that John
Hegeman will seek the Republican
nomination for alderman in the third
ward and contest with Joseph 7. Tully
at the election.
AS this is to be a general city cleo
ton it is certain that greater interest
will be taken in it than in the cleo
ton Of year ago and a record vote is
expected at the primary, The desire
for change in the official directory
of fhe city has been shown in all parts
of the city and it is declared that the
old ring is going to have trouble to
perpetuate itself in power.