The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-11-06
.FAVORS A HARMONY PROGRAM
Governor Would be Pleased to get Some
United Action on the Part of the Re-
publicans as Aid for His Candidacy
for United States Senator.

| In way Gov. McGovern is playing
the shrewdest game of politics he has
ever played in his willingness to as
sist in a harmony program so far as
the nomination of the republican state
ticket is concerned. The governor is
anxious, evidently, to be United States
senator, and is looking ahead to the
election fight as well as the primary
| fight in his desire that the only con-
test shall be over the senatorial nomi-
nation. The governor is perfectly
aware that the battle between himself
and Lieut.. Gov. Thomas Morris for
the republican nomination for United
States senator will be Of a character
which will probably leave great deal
Of. bitterness. The governor also
knows full4yell that Lieut. Gov. Nor
ris, with a LaFolette backing, is likely
to be the heir to campaign which
will be made by the senator that will
not be basis for a harmonious cleo
pIoH campaign.
The governor therefore sees a pos
sible defeat at the polls in his fight
for United States senator if the in
centive is not given for a united cleo
tion battle for the state officers. This
probably is the reason that Gov. Nc
Govern is not SO strenuous for a Nc
N
Govern slate in the state campaign as
are some of his followers, and one of
the reasons why the men closest to
the governor are at the present time
quietly admitting that compromise
state ticket pact is within the range of
possibilities. 1t is probable that the
| governor did not intend his plans to
become public so early as regards his
willingness for compromise, but now
that they have become public, close
followers of his are certain to make no
effort to lessen the compromise talk.
| The governor in a way is between
| two fires, and now that he has de-
clded to be a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for United States
senator it is evident he intends to give
no encouragement to the Roosevelt
men who are trying to place separate
bull moose party ticket in the field.
The governor has evidently decided
with a great many other prominent
bull moosers that the fight must be
within the republican party and that
republican party politics will have to
occupy his attention in the coming
campaign. He also is fully aware that
among the out and out LaFolIette fol-
Losers there is great deal of feeling
towards him and that in the event of
a nomination of an entire McGovern
slate in the republican party such a
slate would probably be the target of
opposition from the LaFollette or
ganization.
On the other hand, if men who were
in no way connected with the bull
moose organization of the last cam
paign are the nominees of the republi-
can state ticket, the governor is fully
aware that after the primary there will
be q better opportunity to upite the
republican party and perhaps win in
the election. Gov. McGovern is fully
aware that at best the state fight next
fall both for the Office of United States
senator and for places on the state
ticket, is likely to be close and no walk
away, and his plans for harmonious
state ticket to his mind offer a chan
mel through which a possible republi-
can victory can be obtained. The gov
ernor had a close run last fall and
should the democratic party be united
in its state fight, it is in better po-
sition to win in the next campaign
than it has been in years. The COVER
nor fully recognizes the fact that there
fore, laying aside any other reasons
which may be influencing him the de-
sire for republican victory is very
controlling one in the present harmony
moves which are being made by some
of his lieutenants with his apparent
consent.
The governor also wishes to unite
himself with majority of the pro-
gressive leaders, and the word progress
sive is not used here as a party desig-
nation. There is no question the gov
ernor has felt very deeply the appar-
ent effor5 that has been made by GER
tain party leaders to weed him out
of the progressive movement. At all
times in talking on that subject, he
has strongly asserted that the pro-
gressive movement is greater than any
party and has time and again declared
that this has been promulgated as
good LaFollette doctrine
Gov. McGovern claims with a good
deal of basis for his claim, that his