The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-10
Candidates of Parties Meet
Sept. 18th to Make Party
Platforms for Campaign
OLD PARTISANS : TO CONTEND
Big Battles For Control Of Party Ex-1
pected of Both the Democratic and
Republican Conventions Old Timers
to be in the Saddle Again.

Now for the platform conventions.
These will be held in Madison on Tues
day, Sept. Is, when the republicans,
democrats, socialists and prohibitionists
Will gather 10 formulate platforms and
e.ect state central committees and such
ether business as may come up.
The republican and democratic con-
ventions will furnish the sensations.
In each there will be hot fight for
control which will later mean the con-
troll of the party organization. In the
republican convention it is absolutely
certain, even at this time, that the
anti LaFollette element will control and
adopt such platform as they choose
and also elect an anti-LaF state
central committee.
The LaFollette faction will make a
| fierce fight to retain control or at least
to dictate part of the platform. 1t is
hard to see at this time how they are
going to do either The machine has
been shown to have lost it's power. A
new generation has come in which does
not recognize LaFollette as the CEN
ter of all political virtues, and they
will resent any attempt oRthe part Of
the LaFollette crowd to dictate on
any proposition.
| A platform will be adopted in accord
ance with the campaign pledges of Mr.
Philip, which brought such ready
response, as was shown nm the big vote
/ given to him. In fact it will be dar
| ing man, anti-LaFollette or LaFollette,
who would stand up in the coming con-
vention and advocate anything but a
general leveling of state expenditures
and complete change in the methods
under which the state administration
has been conducted during the past
twelve years. Even Senator LaFollette
said the appropriations were excessive
and state expenses should be reduced.
Where the fight will come win prob
ably be on an attempt on the part of
| the supporters of LaFollette to inject
some of the peculiarisms which the
senator has affected of late. 1t can
only result one way, say those who are
closest in touch with the situation, and
tfat is certain defeat for the LaFol-
lette program.
AS all the nominees for state office,
as well as members of the legislature,
| take part in the platform convention,
this will permit Attorney General W.,
G. Gwen and Secretary of State John
S. Donald to participate. Mr.. Owen
especially has been prominent in plat
form conventions for twelve years, al
/ ways carrying out the instructions of
Senator LaFollette, he will be the lead
err on that side at the convention
1 on September 10Th.
On the democratic side the fighting
will unquestionably be even more
fierce than in the republican conven-
1 ton. just as soon as the managers
in the Karel and Awkward factions find
out where they stand as the result of
the primary election they will take up
this matter and begin checking up on
the state officers and members Of the
! legislature to see just where they
are at
The Karel men are determined to Sc
cure state central committee that
they can control and the members of
which will stand without hitching, in
spite of the banging of federal patron
age about their ears. On the other
hand the Awkward faction will not give
up control of the. party organization
without a hard struggle.
As it is the legislative members
nominated, together with the holdover
senators, who make up ninety per
cent or more of the convention, the
deepest interest is taken in them on
both sides. In this connection it is
worth noting that out of the one humid
red members of the assembly of 1913
but twenty managed to run the gaunt-
let of the wrath of their fellow citizens
for their votes on the big appropriation
bills. Of these eleven are republicans
and nine democrats, so far as the re-
turns show up to date. 1t is not likely
that more than two or three more will
be added to the present list.
The republicans who succeeded in
securing denomination are j. Engel-
bretson, Lafayette county; A. E. Fred
eriek, Monroe; ]. B. Jenson, Richland;
John Schnitzler, Brown; T. Clancy,
Crawford; R. J. Nye, Superior; j. D.
Millar; Barron; S. A. SCHNEIDER, Green;
Paul Hoverson, Kewaunee; M. I. Bat
It's, Winnebago; Newcomb Spoor, Green
Lake.
The democrats who got through were
Thomas Stewart, Dane; Charles Lentz,
Dodge; Chris. Pickard, Fond du Lac;
James Dolan, Grant; G. L. Hood, La
Crosse; E. ]. Kneen, Lacrosse; Alex
ander Paul, Rock; ]. S. Guidice, Wash
ington; Edward Nordham, Langlade
Among other nominees who were for
merly members of the assembly are Z,
c. Whitfield, republican, in the First
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