The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-01-01
LAY OUT LINES FOR CAMPAIGN
Issues to be Followed Will be Closely
Defined Before Friends Of the Sena-
tor Give Their Support to Any of the
State Candidates.

Toilette people wish the senator him
self to settle very soon so that the out
lines of their campaign can be planned
is the question Of issues. Beyond indi-
eating that he wishes his followers to
take up pronounced stand in favor of
woman suffrage, Senator LaFollette has
given little idea to anyone of the
groundwork which he desires shall form
basis of the LaFollette campaign. AS
the LaF'ollette campaign in this state
will mean battle which is both state
and national in it's scope the LaFol-
lette leaders believe that the issues
should be at once clearly defined They
profess to be thoroughly at sea as to
what the LaFollette plans are in re-
gard to the fight. In fact, they claim
to have no hint, outside Of intimations
as to the woman suffrage question, as
to what Senator LaFollette believes
will be the battle lines Of the coming
campaign.
| Indeed, the LaFollette leaders have
no idea of how he intends even to meet
the marketing question, all issue which
IS being prominently pushed into the
campaign by the governor and which
| is at least attracting sufficient atten-
! tion as to receive comment either favor
able or unfavorable depending on how
the individual paper may view the issue
| from the press. The LaFollette leaders
| also have no idea what the intention of
the senator is as regards the taxation
| question, which they are keen enough to
see cannot help but be one of the major
issues in this state. All of these ques-
tions they think should have LaFol-
| lette Is consideration and the benefit be
received of his advice before steps are
taken which may pledge the LaFollette
organization irrevocably either one
way or the other upon the questions.
The intention Of Senator LaFollette
to press the woman suffrage issue as a
major issue in the campaign is not
viewed with entire satisfaction by any
means by many Of his followers. Tt
il said by them that the voters of Wis
consin have expressed themselves very
forcibly on the woman suffrage cues
tion almost within the last year, and
that to attempt to push this question
| forward as an issue is not only not
good political tactics but not appreciat-
| ing the will of the voters in Wisconsin
The LaFollette leaders say the senator
may think he is fighting for a principle
in the support of woman suffrage, but
that he has long recognized also that a
fight for a principle is largely a mat
ter of educating public sentiment to
his views and that in past campaigns
in this state the senator has not hest
tated not to force public opinion in
channels in which it seemingly did not
desire to run.
In other words, there are many La
Toilette people who recognize that an
attempt to make campaign on a
woman suffrage issue in this state will
mean the assumption of burden which
may prove a great weight before the
campaign is concluded These LaFol-
lette leaders say it is placing the
woman suffrage question in a different
light before the people, SO far as the
LaFollette personality is concerned,
from mere knowledge that Senator
LaFollette favors woman suffrage when
it is, emphasized as one of the founda-
tion principles of the LaFollette organi-
cation platform.
As to the marketing issue the LaFol-
lette leaders are divided as to how this
question shall be met Some of the La
Toilette leaders favor the endorsing of
the McGvern position on the question
and merely declaring that in the issue
the senator is but fayoring an issue
which has long been supported by the
LaFollette organization as basic
stone of the progressive cause, illustra-
ton of this being given by the support
which Senator LaFollette has accorded
similar proposition in congress.
Still others favor line of action
more nearly in accord with the course
of some of the LaF'ollette leaders in the
| Legislature last winter in stand that
the state is not yet ready for the adop-
ton of the marketing commission plan
! in all the detail which is proposed by
Gov. McGovern and that instead some
of the marketing commission pow
ers should be conferred or the Wlscon-
sin Industrial Commission and that
body given time to study the entire
subject at length with an idea of for
raulating workable scheme for some
future legislature to adopt. The en-
dorssment of the McGovern plan in to-
to, It is thought ny some of the La
Toilette leaders, would work to the dis
advantage OF some of the LalFollette
members of the legislature who last
winter failed to give their endorse
| ment to the plan