The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-09-04
States TO Be FRAMED THERE.
Political Leaders of all Parties Expect
ed to be Very Much in Evidence at
Big State Show in Milwaukee Opened
the Second Week in September.

State fair week will be almost as i'm
portant politically as old time conven-
tion weeks used to be in Wisconsin.
Organization counts for more under the
primary than it did under the old eau
Gus and convention system. There can
be no question of that fact. It is
through organization that the prelim-
mary work for a primary campaign is
conducted and man desiring to make
a fight in the primaries as a candidate
for any office must have his friends in
a position to give him a solid support.
During state fair week in Milwaukee
the basis Of many candidate campaigns
will be decided.
By reason Of the fact that the re-
publican candidates. are now more
pronounced than the democratic can
didacies for state positions and for
United States senator, the republican
conferences will probably be marked
with the greatest interest. AS mat
ter Of fact, however, when it comes
right down to the bearing that they
may have upon the state campaign the
republican conferences will be no more
important than the meetings of the
democratic politicians. Undoubtedly
the most formal Of the conferences
will be those of the La Toilette people.
In the first place, they are better or
gained primarily and in better posi-
ton to summon the men whose pres
ence they desire in Milwaukee. In the
next place, the La Toilette people come
upon the call of the leaders better than
any other class Of politicians in Wis
consin.
At the La Toilette conferences the
great sources Of talk will be the aues-
tion as to whom the La Toilette people
shall put in the field as their candidate
for governor and as to how the cam
paign for Thomas Morris for the re-
publican nomination for United States
senator shall be conducted. Although
there will probably be no public an
nouncements in regard to The guberna-
torial situation immediately after the
conclusion of the La Toilette confer
ences it is more than probable that the
candidate whom the La Toilette people
are conferred on for the republican
nomination for governor will be pretty
well known before state fair week is
over.
1t is known that the entire situation
is to be talked over with reference to
the governorship and it is probable
that the merits and dement's of Speaker
Merlin Hull of the assembly and State
Senator George Scott, who now seem
the leading possibilities in the La Fol
lette mind as gubernatorial candidates,
will be pretty well gone over. The
name of G.. E. Crownhart will probably
be mentioned in the discussions also. as
will that of Former Senator Hatton.
and it is more than possible that the
final decision will be to support either
Mr. Crownhart or Mr.. Hatton.
The fact that the gubernatorial sit
uation is to be discussed at the La Fol
lette conferences is causing the sup
porters of all the candidates to urge
friends of the candidates to be in Mil
waukee during state fair week, and this
will add to the attendance at the La
Toilette conferences. There will be a
weii-defined effort on the part of the
La Toilette leaders also, during the
state fair week, to ascertain the prob
able strength of each of the possibil;-
ties named. In away the La Fol
lette people are blazing their trail very
carefully for the next campaign in this
state. More than one reason is Actual
ing them in their caution.
In the first place, the La Toilette
leaders consider that the McGovern
movement in the state, especially
since the semi-oficial announcement
that an entire MeGovern state ticket
may be in the field for the republican
nominations in the primary, iss in a
way challenging the La Toilette po-
litical supremacy in this state, and the
La Toilette leaders do not desire to
take any chances of possible defeat
in the primaries for any of their can
didates. They seem to be reasonably
certain that the minor Offices on the
state ticket will be re-nominated, but
they do feel there is chance that the
La Toilette candidate for governor
might be defeated for the republican
nomination, and for this reason theys