The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-07-30

Former Gov. W. D. Hoard has writ
ten another letter to the voters of the
state urging them to quit experiment.
ing and get back to safe and sane bust
ness methods in state government.
1t is time, he says for Wisconsin to
cease being an experiment station.
The voters have the chance now to take
the government into their own hands
by supporting E. L.. Philip, thinks
Mr.. Hoard.
The letter is even more vigorous than
those which have preceded it, 1t is
rs follows:
Again to the Voters of Wisconsin
hold it to be political crime for
any set Of politicians to misgovern a
state, to make it the plaything, the
football so to speak, for their expert
mentation, to be kicked about>at their
pleasure as the progressive faction Of
the republican party have done with
Wisconsin in the last fourteen years.
In that length of time, with the excep-
tion of Governor Davidson s admins
tration, there has been no serious at
tempt to get back upon safe grounds
of administration.
Every wild vagary Of so-called re-
form that these progressives could
think of, they proceeded to enact into
law and put the tax payers of the
state under contribution to pay for.
TO be conservative and cautious, to
'fprove all things first in the light
OF, reason and good sense, these NAL
administrators called Freactionary,
standpatism," "toryism, I" q stall
wartism - and so forth There has
never been an instance in political his
tory when a great people were so
humbugged and fooled with epithets as
in this period Of progressive misrule.
And you people have been going along
too busy with your own affairs to no
tice the caucerous growth of this heresy
of government until the rude snatch at
your pocketbooks wakes you up.
Even now large portion of the vot-
ers in either of the great parties have
been so blinded by this progressive
doctrine that they are not more than
half awake. The line of cleavage, how
ever, has set in; you can see it in both
parties, democratic as well as republi-
can. The stable, sensible portion of
voters are getting alarmed at the
frightful growth Of expense in our
state government which has come upon
them Where is this thing going to
end?" they are saying to one another.
They are just beginning to see the final
logic, the inevitable result of such a
wild expansion of the powers of govern
ment AS yet they but dimIy realize
what it means to abandon all conserva-
tive ideas and send the ship of state
down the River Of Doubt with nothing
to steer her by but the filmy notions of
a lot of theoretical pilots
1t is time that a halt Is called. 1t is
time that the government of the state
Of Wisconsin ceased to be an expert
ment station as Roosevelt called it.
1t has proved to be the widest. most
visionary and most terribly expensive
piece of experimentation the country
has ever seen. We, the voters of Wis
consin, are responsible for this. We
followed LaFollette in his chase after
every wild notion he could think of,
and we backed him up and kept him
and his band of progressive experiment
ters in power. Now, we cry out, we
are confronted with the consequence of
our action. 1t is well, we are; keep on.
crying out The conservative repubh-
can party which once administered
your state faithfully, economically and
well, has rallied in your defense with
that splendid citizen, Emanuel Il.
Philip at the head. 1t is move
ment for your relief; for the repeal of
a fearful mass of fool legislation; for
the retrenchment of state expenses; for
the substitution Of plain, practical,
common sense in government for the
foolish theories of progressive delu-
sion.
I have been citizen of Wisconsin
for ifty-seven wears. have endeav.
cred to serve its people to the best of
my ability in various ways. How well
or i'll, I have done my duty you must
be the judge. / am now an ol5 man.
| have no hope of political gain to me
or mine in this appeal, but / do want
to urge upon every voter, the wisdom
OF getting back to safe and sound prin-
ciples of state government. We have
gone too far with this progressive fol
". There is chance to retrieve our
mistakes by supporting the conserva-
tive republican ticket that was chosen
at Madison. | can see no other road
out Of the difficulty we are in
w. D. Hoard,
Fort Atkinson, Wis.