The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-12-24

Changes In state and county admins
trations which win take place on the
fourth day of January, two weeks from
next Monday, do not promise to bring
any great number of changes in the Of
fetal make up of Kenosha county. The
only public Office which will change
hands will be the Office of sheriff, and
Sheriff F w. B. Achen is now planning
to remove to his residence ON Prairie
avenue and Sheriff Elect Andrew Stahl
is planning to move his family into the
jail residence.
The sheriff-elect has not as yet an
nounced who will be named as under
sheriff and he insists that he has not
made up his mind on this matter.
Nicholas Fonk, who has served the
county notably in the Office of under
sheriff for the past four years-and no
better man was ever found to take care
of the county jaii-is planning to go
back to the farm in, the town of Paris.
He will resume work as a farmer after
the first of the year, There will be no
changes in the county building, it be-
ing announced by the Oficials-eleet that
their deputies will all be re-appointed
for another year. Nearly all of the
deputies have been in service for sew
eral yeas and have proven themselves
competent.
Kenosna county will not be greatly
o4 bo hay Of lY,7i, ,ic4,,1
ton at Madison when Governor Elect
Philip is inaugurated on January 4th.
The new governor will have lot of
appointments to make but as yet none
of his supporters in Kenosha have been
suggested for any of these places.
A number of Kenosha men are hope
full that with the opening of the legis-
lature they will get on the pay roll
with positions in connection with the
assembly or the senate, but no assur-
ance has been given to any of them
that the jobs will be forthcoming.
Commissioner A. Z. KuOlt is the
only Kenosha man who could be direct
ly affected with the change of admins
tration and his Office is good for several
years at least. The Office of deputy
game warden and deputy oil Inspector
while under the civil service law have
always been considered more or less
political offices. Michael Kleist, who
has been deputy game warden for the
past eight years and who has managed
to weather all sorts of gales along po-
Etical lines, is expected to hold on to
his office. 1t is not known whether or
not Fred G. Babcock, the present Oil
inspector, will be so fortunate. Already
several candidates are in the field for
this positio nand every one of them Isl
ready and willing to submit to the civil
service test in order to get chance
to get on the state pay roll. Deputy
Babcock is not expecting any political
favors from the incoming administers
| ton
The big political plum of the newt
! year will be the postoffice. 1t is ex-
pected that the new postmaster for Ks-..
nosha will be named about the first Of
March aad it is probable that Senator
Elect Husting will have considerable to
say about who is named. None of the.
local democratic aspirants for the post
office were very strongly entrenched in
/ the Husting band wagon and it is gen.
orally understood that whatever politi-
cal influence they had was thrown to
Kearney in the primary. The term of
Postmaster Baker will expire on the
first Monday in April and it is pretty
certain that the agony will be ended
and the appointment of the new man
made before that time. IF the powers
/ that be in Wisconsin have made any
decision as to whom will be appointed
they have not made their choice known
among the struggling half dozen candi-
dates for the position.