The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-10-17
KAREL TOURS COUNTY.

If Judge John G. Karel is not elected
governor of Wisconsin it will not be
because he has failed in making hard
canvass of the state.
For two days last week he made an
automobile campaign in this county
and when he closed at Manitowoc Sat
urdav evening he had made thirty
speeches in the two days. He had
good meetings throughout the county
and an attendance of over 400 at the
wind up meeting in this city Saturday
night There is no denying the fact
that if the outward signs count for any
thing Judge Karel is making votes for
himself and the democratic party in
this campaign.
In his campaign in this county, he
devoted most Of his time to discussion
of state expenses, republican extrava-
gance and the many commissions with
which the state of Wisconsin is burden
ed
He declared in his address in this
city that the citizens of Wisconsin have
woke up in surprise and alarm to find
that within the past ten years the taxes
for the states expenses, outside of
county, school and municipal taxes,
have mounted up from about 81, 100000
per annum to $l3,000,000 each year.
In the meantime our population has in
creased but little over II per cent.
The news is astounding. We are led
to inquire the use to which ali this
money is being put. In doing So, we
make another discovery even more as
founding than the enormous cost.
During the ten wears past" said
Judge Karel, "the cuntrolling admin
istration has maintained itself in office
by the profession that its prime pur-
pose is to restore to the people their
primary democratic rights that they
are ridding the people of boss control;
that they are bringing us into polit-
ical millennium where sin and oppres-
SIGN will not be known. The roturns
lous people have believed in these pro-
fessions of righteous mission. They
have endorsed the administration
promises They have returned their
candidates to Office, term after term,
carefully noting that each one bore the
mystic brand that, by this admnistra-
ton, has been given peculiar signiiic-
ance in the word progressive"
"We have been aware that the adj
ministration has been very busy at
something We have all known OF the
establishment of railroad commits
sion, tax commission, and some other
commissions. But how many of US
have realized that little by little, on
this plea and on that plea, there has
been foisted upon an unsuspecting
people forty-one commissions?
"And more are planned! That twen-
ty-eight of these are highly paid.
Most of them have large paid bureaus
of assistants, clerks and stenographers
numerous as ants and no less busy
gathering statistics, collecting data,
piling the walls with index files, sched-
uling each one of us, analyzing our
business, specializing on our income,
present and prospective, anticipating
the bites that may perchance he taken
therefrom-doing a multitude of things
of which we the people do not know,
and cannot comprehend. They tell us
that these commissions are "aided' by
we'll paid experts, trained and skilled;
that they are working out our saliva
tion in their own mysterious way.
These experts are supposed to be good
and wise beyond the ken of ordinary
mortal and as incorruptible as an an
gel of light"
M. K. Reilly, candidate for congress,
followed Judge Karel in a discussion
of national issues particularly the tar
iff which Mr.. Reilly said was the para
mount issue of the campaign. The
speaker reviewed the factional fight in
the republican party, and declared
that where men who for fifty years
had followed the party, were forced by
their convictions to leave it, there
must be something radically wrong
and menacing TO the welfare of the
people. Mr.. Reilly lauded Gov. Will
son and predicted his election. The
speaker devoted considerable time to
the claims made by Congressman DaV-
idson of his great solcitude for Manito-
voc and benefits he had secured for
this city, and said that Mr.. Davidson
had achieved nothing for this city that
any other man could not have secured.
He referred to the City's fight to have
the government take care of the inner
harbor and said that Davidsons failure
to get action was due to one of two
causes; neglect to press the matter or
lack of influence with his own party
which has been in control.
City. Atty. Harry Kelley presided at
the meeting and introduced the speak
ers.